Part One: Simon Says Chapters 1 – 4 Bronwyn Rojas, Simon Kelleher, Nate Macauley, Cooper Clay and Addy Prentiss are students at Bayview High. They’ve all be sent to detention for having phones in class, which is not permitted. However, the phones they got in trouble for weren’t theirs (planted by someone else), but Mr. …
Chapter 1 Yao, a trainee paramedic, tries to help a stressed out businesswoman, Masha. Other people keep interrupting, she has a cardiac arrest and is carried out. Ten Years Later Chapters 2 – 5 Frances Welty, a romance novelist, has been having back pain. She knows it is psychosomatic. She’s on her way to 10-day …
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell (or, Hamnet and Judith in some markets) is one of books in recent memory that I’ve been genuinely really excited to read. After reading Bill Bryson’s wonderful (non-fiction) biography of Shakespeare, I’ve been interested in reading more historical fiction about the famous Bard, but haven’t found much to catch my eye. …
(Note that the chapters in the book are unnumbered and unnamed. I’ve added chapter numbers and the first few words of each chapter to make this easier to navigate and reference. The chapters jump back and forth between two timelines.) The book opens with a few historical notes. A couple in Stratford had three children, …
I knew Emma Straub’s All Adults Here would likely be a fun, light read so it was an obvious choice to take to lake-side park for a picnic on the weekend. I didn’t end up feeling very strongly about it, but it was a pleasant enough read for the day if you read it uncritically. …
