The Importance of Being Earnest
Jack and Algernon invent Ernest to court Gwendolen and Cecily until fiction collapses.
2,538-word summary · 11 min read
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The Color of Magic
A failed wizard guides a tourist across a flat world on a turtle, with comic fantasy chaos.
2,032-word summary · 9 min read
The Flatshare
Two strangers share one bed on opposite shifts and fall in love through notes left around the flat.
2,793-word summary · 12 min read
Love, Theoretically
Adjunct physicist Elsie Hannaway fake-dates for rent money until Jack Smith, an MIT experimentalist, stands between her and her dream job.
2,308-word summary · 10 min read
Yes Please
Amy Poehler moves from Boston childhood through UCB and SNL to Parks and Recreation in this 2014 memoir. Funny essays on work, motherhood, divorce, and saying…
2,668-word summary · 12 min read
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Bee compiles emails to find architect mother Bernadette missing before Antarctica.
2,121-word summary · 9 min read
The Rosie Project
Melbourne genetics professor Don Tillman launches the Wife Project to find a partner by questionnaire, then meets chaotic Rosie Jarman and agrees to help her…
2,780-word summary · 12 min read
One for the Money
Janet Evanovich's One for the Money fully retold: Stephanie Plum's first bounty hunt, Morelli on a murder charge, Ranger, Lula, Ramirez, and why Trenton still…
2,339-word summary · 10 min read
Love on the Brain
Bee Konigswasser lands her dream NASA neuroengineering lead and must co-lead with grad-school nemesis Levi Ward, while her equipment fails and someone…
2,176-word summary · 10 min read
Crazy Rich Asians
Rachel Chu flies to Singapore with Nick Young and learns his family is not just rich but dynasty rich, with mothers, aunties, and weddings testing every bond.
2,117-word summary · 9 min read
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Four lovers flee to a forest where fairies mix them up, while workmen rehearse a play for a duke's wedding.
2,597-word summary · 12 min read
The Hating Game
Two executive assistants share an office, a rivalry, and a promotion neither will concede without a fight.
1,945-word summary · 9 min read