Downtown vs Sushi für Anfänger: Which Should You Read?

Downtown Anne Rivers Siddons · 1994 ★★★★☆ 3.8 621 pages · ≈ 11 h 30 m · Moderate

“THE FIRST THING I SAW WAS A HALF-NAKED WOMAN dancing in a cage above Peachtree Street.”

Set on the cusp of the country's great social movements - youth, women's, peace, and civil rights - in the year before the love turned to anger and the peace to militancy, Downtown is the story of Smoky O'Donnell, her…

Sushi für Anfänger Marian Keyes · 2000 ★★★★☆ 3.7 576 pages · ≈ 10 h 40 m · Light

“At Femme magazine, something had been in the air for weeks, a feeling that they were living on a fault line.”

A nervous breakdown seems like a great idea: all that lying in bed and watching daytime TV. But who's going to have it? Will it be housewife Clodagh, who spends her days microwaving pasta for her demanding toddlers and…