The sections heading don’t appear in the book. I’ve added them to this summary to make it easier to navigate. Early Childhood Exile to Phthia Master Chiron and Mount Pelion A Call to Arms and Scyros Preparing for War Raids A Lengthy Campaign Plague, Chryseis and Briseis The Deaths of Patroclus and Achilles Pyrrhus and …
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave is Reese Witherspoon’s latest book club pick. Reese’s Book Club picks tend to be faster paced, breezier reads, which I was in the mood for, so I thought I’d give this a read, and I’m happy to report that this book didn’t disappoint. The Last Thing …
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 …
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 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. …
