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
Tag: comedy
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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
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
An angel and demon team up to stop the apocalypse and save Earth.
1,958-word summary · 9 min read
Funny Story
Dumped Daphne moves in with her ex's new fiancee's ex, Miles, and they fake-date for revenge.
1,937-word summary · 9 min read
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Becky Bloomwood hides maxed cards while chasing a finance writing job.
1,910-word summary · 8 min read
Born a Crime
Noah's memoir of growing up mixed-race under apartheid, raised by a fearless mother in Soweto.
1,980-word summary · 9 min read
Anxious People
A failed bank robber takes eight strangers hostage at an apartment viewing, and nobody is who they seem.
1,918-word summary · 9 min read
The Unhoneymooners
Olive Torres takes her sister's Hawaii honeymoon with enemy Ethan Thomas after food poisoning ruins the wedding.
2,864-word summary · 13 min read
The Devil Wears Prada
Andrea Sachs takes an assistant job for Miranda Priestly at Runway and loses herself.
3,203-word summary · 14 min read
Emma
Emma Woodhouse matchmakes Harriet Smith in Highbury while missing Mr Knightley beside her.
3,369-word summary · 15 min read
Bridget Jones's Diary
Thirty-something Bridget Jones logs calories, cigarettes and bad dates in London while torn between Daniel Cleaver and Mark Darcy.
2,293-word summary · 10 min read
Bossypants
Tina Fey moves from Pennsylvania childhood through improv and SNL to 30 Rock in this funny 2011 memoir. Expect backstage stories, jokes about work and…
2,301-word summary · 10 min read
The Love Hypothesis
Love Hypothesis retold: Olive fakes dating Adam, lab hijinks, consent talks, Boston fall.
2,009-word summary · 9 min read
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide retold: Earth's end, Ford, Zaphod, Marvin, and the answer 42.
2,253-word summary · 10 min read