Big Little Lies – Liane Moriarty: Book Summary
Let me tell you about the book that proved suburban drama can be deadly. Liane Moriarty wrote a mystery that unfolds...
Beverly Ashford • 11 Mar 2026 • 3 min
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The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls: Book Summary
Let me tell you about the book that opens with a woman seeing her homeless mother digging through garbage—from a taxi on...
Beverly Ashford • 11 Mar 2026 • 3 min
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail – Cheryl Strayed: Book Summary
Let me tell you about the book that sent thousands of people to REI. Cheryl Strayed had no business hiking the Pacifi...
Beverly Ashford • 11 Mar 2026 • 2 min
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck: Book Summary
Let me tell you about the book that got banned, burned, and denounced as communist propaganda—and then won the Pulitzer...
Beverly Ashford • 10 Mar 2026 • 3 min
Beloved – Toni Morrison: Book Summary
Let me tell you about the most difficult great novel in American literature. Beloved is not an easy read. It's not me...
Beverly Ashford • 09 Mar 2026 • 3 min
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott: Book Summary
Let me tell you why this book refuses to go away. Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women in 1868 because her publisher...
Beverly Ashford • 08 Mar 2026 • 3 min
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger: Book Summary
Let me tell you about the most divisive narrator in American literature. People either love Holden Caulfield or find...
Beverly Ashford • 07 Mar 2026 • 3 min
Grit by Angela Duckworth: Book Summary
Let me tell you about the book that made talent feel overrated and consistency feel underrated — which is either deeply...
Beverly Ashford • 06 Mar 2026 • 3 min
Moby Dick – Herman Melville: Book Summary
Let me tell you about the book almost nobody finished when it was published. Herman Melville wrote Moby Dick in 1851....
Beverly Ashford • 05 Mar 2026 • 3 min
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson: Book Summary
Let me tell you about the crime novel that made Swedish winter weather feel like a character and introduced the world to...
Beverly Ashford • 04 Mar 2026 • 3 min
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote: Book Summary
Let me tell you about the book that Truman Capote called his masterpiece, that took six years of his life to research an...
Beverly Ashford • 03 Mar 2026 • 3 min
The Shining by Stephen King: Book Summary
Let me tell you about the horror novel that Stephen King wrote about himself and then spent decades arguing was misunder...
Beverly Ashford • 02 Mar 2026 • 3 min