Jason Pettus 
Finally, my first substantial book writeup of the year! And it's a fun one, too, #SidneySheldon's 1973 trashy classic #TheOtherSideOfMidnight, whose surprise massive popularity kicked off that entire wave of '70s projects about bitchy upper-class women (think Danielle Steel, Joan Collins, Judith Krantz, and eventually nighttime soaps like Dynasty). Read my ★★★★★ review below, made possible by a random donation at a Little Free Library. Hooray, Little Free Library!
Jason Pettus's review of The Other Side of Midnight (Midnight #1)
5/5: 2025 reads, #3. I freely admit that two of my biggest guilty pleasures is reading random weird crap I find at the various Little Free Libraries around my neighborhood (at least ten of them here in Chicago’s Hyde Park where I live, greatly influenced by this also being the neighborhood of the University of Chicago); and reading the commercially popular books from the 1970s that were up on the shelves of my parents’ bookcases when I was a kid and the bookcases of all my friends’ parents, which here in my fifties I have a massive nostalgia for. So imagine the pleasure I experienced the other w...