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First Look Club: Clifford reviews The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
The Book Eaters is good as it is: it’s dark, it’s absurd, and it’s both strange and familiar — it’s something to sink your (book)teeth into. Read Clifford's review on the blog.
First Look Club: Clifford reviews Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Posted on May 11, 2022| Posted in Book Reviews, First Look Club
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World kept all the important beats of the story, the visuals worked well for the story, and overall the book feels like it was written as a graphic novel instead of adapted from an existing work. Read Clifford's review on the blog.
Read Women: Beautiful Stories to Immerse Yourself in to Celebrate Women’s Month
Posted on March 7, 2022| Posted in Book Collection
In celebration of Women’s Month, we take time to explore books written by women–stories that inspire, educate, and tell unique stories told from the female perspective. Read more on the blog.
First Look Club: Clifford reviews The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
Posted on February 16, 2022| Posted in Book Reviews
One of the things I really liked about The Paris Apartment is that most of the story is set in the titular apartment building, which can be considered as a character in itself. The brooding atmosphere, the occupants’ casual voyeurism, and the other occupants’ bourgeois lifestyles all add tension to a steadily escalating plot. Read the rest of Clifford's review on the blog.
First Look Club: Clifford reviews A Deadly Affair: Unexpected Love Stories from the Queen of Mystery by Agatha Christie
Posted on December 17, 2021| Posted in Book Reviews, First Look Club
A Deadly Affair is a collection of previously-published short stories written by Agatha Christie, but with a twist: they’re love stories. Or stories that involve romance, at least: more Harley Quin, less Harlequin. Read Clifford's review on the blog.
The Best Books of 2021
We've seen a lot of interesting reads published this year. What's the best one you've read so far? Find out what the Best Books of 2021 are, according to our resident bookworms, the First Look Club, and members of the Bookworm Corner community.
First Look: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
Posted on August 26, 2021| Posted in Book Reviews, First Look Club
Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Amor Towles’ third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes.
First Look Club: Clifford reviews The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
Posted on August 26, 2021| Posted in Book Reviews, First Look Club
The Lincoln Highway is a six-hundred-page novel written by A Gentleman In Moscow author Amor Towles: it’s heartwarming, it’s nostalgic, and it’s full of detours. Read Clifford'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: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Posted on May 2, 2021| Posted in First Look Club
An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian—while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.
