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The Last Thing He Told Me: Recap & Chapter-By-Chapter Summary

Prologue Part One Part Two Part Three Prologue In the prologue, the narrator talks about how she manages to misplace everything and her husband Owen Michaels would make fun of her for it. On their second date, she’d lost a parking ticket and the fee was a hundred dollars, plus tax. Much later, a week …

Project Hail Mary: Recap & Chapter-by-Chapter Summary

Chapter 1 Ryland Grace drifts in and out of wakefulness to a robot (consisting mostly of a set of arms) assessing his basic cognitive functions and removing a number of tubes attached to his body. He doesn’t know where he is, why he’s there or what his own name is. As he attempts to get …

Project Hail Mary

Project Hail Mary is the newest novel from Andy Weir, soon released in a few days on Star Wars Day (May 4). Sci-fi fans should feel free to get excited now. I was so thrilled to get an early copy of it and absolutely tore through this story about scientific research, evolution and interstellar exploration. …

The Good Sister

The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth is a family drama slash mystery novel that’s narrated from the point of view of two twin sisters, Rose and Fern Castle, who were raised by an unstable mother. When the book opens, they are both adults in their late twenties, and Rose is having difficulty conceiving a child. …

The Good Sister: Recap & Summary

The book jumps back and forth from the points of view of two twin sisters, Rose and Fern Castle. Rose’s parts are excepts from her journal. Chapters 1 – 4 Rose Ingrid Castle, 28, writes about being left by her husband Owen, three months ago, which she attributes to her suddenly deciding at 27 that …