LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES begins with two former lovers who plot and scheme to ruin the reputation of an innocent young female aristocrat. As their game of seduction and manipulation becomes more intricate, they quickly discover that the stakes are higher than they bargained for… and their last encounter may be their most dangerous by far….
The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living (one of our August picks) is Louise Miller’s first novel, the result of GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator program. The reader is introduced to Olivia “Livvy” Rawlings, a pastry chef at an exclusive Boston club, during a rather tumultuous period in her life. She is not happy in Boston, she…
All of us are more than one thing. – Leslie Odom Jr. Good God. Just when you think the Hamilton Musical phenomenon couldn’t get any better – it does. Hamilton’s America, a PBS documentary about the making of Hamilton the Musical, and the life of Alexander Hamilton is….well, it’s outstanding. It aired Friday, October…
Dear Bookworms, With this sixth installment of the Thursday Next series, Jasper Fforde delves once again into the complexities of the BookWorld – and shakes up all the rules. To begin with, the novel opens immediately upon an account of the BookWorld’s transformation from an interstellar layout to a terrestrial one with free-floating landmasses. Although…
Life has never been what we see on television. Life off the screen is messy and tricky and beautiful and horrible and painful and sweet and hard and good. Life has never been what we seen on television – until This Is Us. And now, we see the mess of life in all it’s sweet…
My grandparents gave me the second Harry Potter book for Christmas when I was 12. I hadn’t yet read the first book, but I was so excited to open that gift. One, I now needed the first book and, two, I could finally join everyone I knew who was reading and loving Harry Potter. I got…
GOOD GOD. The 80s are back and they’re better than ever and they’re here in the form of five kids – Dustin, Lucas, Mike, Eleven, and Will. The synopsis is thus – “On November 6, 1983 in the town of Hawkins, Indiana, 12-year-old Will Byers vanishes mysteriously. Will’s frantic mother, Joyce, searches for him while Police…
On the day you’re to be suspended from school, you don’t expect your mother to take you to the museum. In that museum, you don’t expect to fall in love with a redheaded girl who is wandering galleries with an old man. Nor do you expect a bomb to go off when you’re trying to…
Dear Bookworms, The famous city of Paris holds many allures, but for expat Kristen Beddard, it was missing one key element: kale. Try as she might, after moving to the City of Light with her husband for his work, she was unable to locate this one vegetable that has come to represent home and comfort…
The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman was one of the books picked for our June Bookshelf. Goodreads offers the following description: Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, which harvests fiction from different realities. And along with her enigmatic assistant Kai, she’s posted to an alternative London. Their mission – to retrieve a…