Tell Me Everything This is the 5th in Elizabeth Strout’s Amgash series which is mostly about Lucy Barton. This novel revolves around the relationship between Lucy and Bob Burgess who are good friends that see each other in much deeper ways than their significant others. After they parted, Bob though again of how eh had… Continue reading Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

Frances “Frankie” McGrath takes her nursing credentials and optimism to serve in Vietnam. Her struggles in the war are just a prelude to her struggles when she returns to a country where she’s told “women didn’t serve” in Vietnam.

This novel is the classic Jeeves and Wooster story. In this post I add a bit of old-school English literature student analysis. But don’t let that stop you from reading it. It is freaking hilarious.

Michael and Bunny are neighbors: Michael poor, Bunny rich. They become best friends and their paths converge, diverge, and converge again. Violence figures in both their lives. A tough, violent but beautiful novel.

Margot is a 20 year old college student who has an affair with her professor and ends up pregnant. This dark comedy shows how she surmounts problems of finances, caring for a baby, and lack of support from mother and friends.
A very fun – though adult – read.