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First look club
First Look Club: Jowana reviews Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Posted on October 14, 2022| Posted in First Look Club, Book Collection
Carrie Soto is Back is about the relationships of fathers and daughters, mentors and students wrapped in a fascinating tale about an unlikable underdog out to defend her honor or ego. Read Jowana's review on the blog.
First Look Club: Jody reviews Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi
Posted on October 6, 2022| Posted in Book Reviews, First Look Club
The Diary of a Void is an interesting novel about women, work, and the womb. It’s made me think about not just what potentials babies hold, but what the potentials of women are. Read Jody's review on the blog.
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: Jed reviews Babel by R.F. Kuang
Posted on September 27, 2022| Posted in First Look Club, Book Collection
At its very core, Babel is a novel structured around semiotics. The best reason to read this book would be for the imaginative world-building, the fantastic intersection between translation and magic, and the deep dives into all sorts of language-related facts. Read Jed's review on the blog.
Join the Coolest Book Club for Bookworms: The First Look Club
Posted on August 2, 2022| Posted in Book Reviews, Announcements
We are expanding The First Look Club! Fully Booked is searching for more passionate readers who share the same love for reading and writing to help fellow book lovers discover their next great read to join the coolest club for book lovers. Read more on the blog.
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.
