My bedside reading list

Here are the current recommendations on my bedside reading list.

I just finished The White Rose by Jean Hanff Korelitz, which is a clever and rather lovely re-telling of the German opera, Der Rosenkavalier. The only thing I found slightly disconcerting, is that it’s entirely about my husband’s family. Well, not entirely, as the members of the family she writes about are fictitious - Marian Kahn and Barton Ochstein - but the author is very specific about which family they are members of, and it’s