Four siblings are eager to inherit what they affectionately refer to as “The Nest” from their late father. He worked hard his whole life, pinching and living a modest live, and his intention was to provide a modest bump for his children, but his investment practices and a favorable market have swollen the amount beyond what he could have imagined. But, when the eldest sibling’s bad decisions finally catch up with him, they all pay the consequences, literally. Now the nest is almost depleted, and […]
“People abandoned one another constantly without performing the courtesy of of actually disappearing.”
This book passed the rarest of tests: I often bring a book somewhere in case I have a wait or a gap of time and have a chance to read. I’ve done it since childhood, but the habit doesn’t really make sense anymore. I have an almost 3 year old who needs constantly, never-ending attention, intervention, corralling, chasing, and supervision. On the rare occasions that I do actually have a second in public, it’s 100,000,000x easier to just browse Facebook on my phone or something. […]
The Love of Money
The Nest is a book about how money makes you do terrible things. I initially almost stopped reading it at about the 20% mark because the characters we’re introduced to at that point can easily be summed up with “assholes gonna asshole” and who wants to read that? Fortunately the characters are a bit more nuanced then that, and I was ultimately glad that I continued reading. The plot follows four siblings through one year of their lives. In this particular year, they were supposed […]
The First Book After Baby WOULD Be The Nest
I started reading this book an actual lifetime ago. Granted, that life is all of two weeks old and belongs to my son, but I’m counting it. Mostly because that makes me feel better about being behind on my goal for CBR; I’m five books behind on my one per week to stay on track. In any case, I finished my first book in a good long while, and it’s more than possible my good feelings and copious hormones have colored my estimation of the […]