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First look club
First Look Club: Jody reviews I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee
Baek Sehee unpacks boxes that have to do with family, romantic relationships, work, her appearance, and the process of organizing all these isn’t clear cut—they get jumbled, misplaced, and brought out again and again even after being placed in the right spot. Read the review on the blog.
First Look Club: Katya reviews Circling Back to You by Julie Tieu
I love reading about leads of Asian descent, and it’s delightful to see a Filipino-American family in their overwhelmingly loving glory, complete with clingy lolas, doofus cousins, and children everywhere. Read Katya's review on the blog.
First Look Club: Jed reviews Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen
Counterfeit pulls off a very neat twist about two-thirds of the way in. It’s a story about friendship, family, criminal enterprises, and the Asian way of doing things. Read Jed's review on the blog.
First Look Club: Clifford reviews Killers Amidst Killers by Billy Jensen
Posted on June 22, 2022| Posted in First Look Club
Killers Amidst Killers is Billy Jensen’s harrowing account of the time he spent investigating a series of murders in Southern Ohio. Here, we only get a glimpse through stories told by their friends and family. Read Clifford's review on the blog.
First Look Club: Jowana reviews Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades
Posted on June 22, 2022| Posted in First Look Club
Divided into eight parts and 50-plus short chapters, “Brown Girls” is a coming-of-age story of a group of brown-skinned girls living in Queens; each chapter marks their dreams and delusions, successes and failures, enlightenment and confusion, and happiness and heartbreaks. Read Jowana's review on the blog.
First Look Club: Dan reviews Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Posted on June 22, 2022| Posted in First Look Club
With Elizabeth Zott, Bonnie Garmus gave us an unforgettable character that broke the ceiling in the 60s when ceilings were much higher and harder to break. Read Dan's review on the blog.
First Few Pages: Where the Grass Is Green and the Girls Are Pretty by Lauren Weisberger
Posted on June 2, 2022| Posted in First Few Pages
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and When Life Gives You Lululemons comes a highly entertaining, sharply observed novel about sisters, their perfect lives and their perfect lies. Read the First Few pages on the blog.
First Look Club: Dan reviews Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li
Posted on May 25, 2022| Posted in Book Reviews, First Look Club
The narrative makes Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li more than just a thriller. It captures the despair and disconnectedness of being born into two cultures. Read Dan'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.
First Look Club: Katya reviews Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Posted on May 11, 2022| Posted in Book Reviews, First Look Club
Though Book Lovers isn’t an adolescent coming of age story, it hits everything that makes those stories lovable: diving headfirst into new experiences, falling in love, discovering something that makes you see your life in a different light. Read Katya's review on the blog.
