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First Look Club
First Look Club: Jowana reviews Lorna Mott Comes Home by Diane Johnson
Posted on July 23, 2021| Posted in First Look Club
Reading Lorna Mott Comes Home is comparable to chatting up with a friend. The point of the Diane Johnson's novel is simple: prepare for a life full of surprises. Read Jowana's review on the blog.
First Look Club: Jody reviews Lorna Mott Comes Home by Diane Johnson
Posted on July 21, 2021| Posted in First Look Club
Diane Johnson brings readers into the dreamy and anxiety-filled American world of Lorna Mott Dumas, where much has changed and where she struggles to create a new life to support herself in Lorna Mott Comes Home. Read Jody's review on the blog.
First Look Club: Katya reviews Sword Stone Table, edited by Jenn Northington and Swapna Krishna
Posted on July 7, 2021| Posted in Book Reviews, First Look Club
Edited by Jenn Northington and Swapna Krishna, Sword Stone Table is an anthology of diverse retellings of Arthurian myths and legends. The book highlights sixteen (16) vastly different stories that are divided into three categories: once, present, and future. Read Katya's review here.
First Look Club: Reina reviews Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fung
Posted on June 25, 2021| Posted in Book Reviews, First Look Club
Buoyant and heartbreaking, Ghost Forest is a slim novel that envelops the reader in joy and sorrow. Fung writes with a poetic and haunting voice, layering detail and abstraction, weaving memory and oral history to paint a moving portrait of a Chinese-Canadian astronaut family. Read Reina's review here.
First Look Club: Jean reviews The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
Posted on June 19, 2021| Posted in Book Reviews, First Look Club
The remarkable story of J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white to leave a lasting legacy, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict, and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray. Read Jean's review on the blog.
First Look Club: Dan reviews The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
Posted on June 19, 2021| Posted in Book Reviews, First Look Club
The remarkable story of J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white to leave a lasting legacy, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict, and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray. Read Dan's review on the blog.
First Look Club: Jed reviews Widespread Panic by James Ellroy
Posted on June 4, 2021| Posted in Book Reviews, First Look Club
From the modern master of noir comes a novel based on the real-life Hollywood fixer Freddy Otash, the malevolent monarch of the 1950s L.A. underground, and his Tinseltown tabloid Confidential magazine. Read Jed's review on the blog.
First Look Club: Clifford reviews Widespread Panic by James Ellroy
Posted on June 4, 2021| Posted in Book Reviews, First Look Club
From the modern master of noir comes a novel based on the real-life Hollywood fixer Freddy Otash, the malevolent monarch of the 1950s L.A. underground, and his Tinseltown tabloid Confidential magazine. Read Clifford's review on the blog.
First Look: From Little Tokyo, with Love by Sarah Kuhn
Posted on May 8, 2021| Posted in First Look Club
"I absolutely adored this funny, fierce, big-hearted book.”
—Morgan Matson, New York Times bestselling author of Save the Date
Celebrated author Sarah Kuhn reinvents the modern fairy tale in this intensely personal yet hilarious novel of a girl whose search for a storybook ending takes her to unexpected places in both her beloved LA neighborhood and her own guarded heart.
First Look Club: Katya reviews From Little Tokyo, with Love by Sarah Kuhn
Posted on May 8, 2021| Posted in Book Reviews, First Look Club
Celebrated author Sarah Kuhn reinvents the modern fairy tale in this intensely personal yet hilarious novel of a girl whose search for a storybook ending takes her to unexpected places in both her beloved LA neighborhood and her own guarded heart. Read Katya's review on the blog.
