Bubbly Bibbly, Author at Bubbly Bibbly

Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 24, 2021 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: In this family, everyone is keeping secrets–especially the dead. Brecken Hill in upstate New York is an expensive place to live. You have to be rich to have a house there. And they don’t come much richer than Fred and Sheila Merton. But even all...

One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 24, 2021 | Book Review, Romance

Summary: In her twenties, Emma Blair marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse. They build a life for themselves, far away from the expectations of their parents and the people of their hometown in Massachusetts. They travel the world together, living life to the...

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 24, 2021 | Book Review, Historical Fiction

Summary: Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they’ve known. Separated from...

Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 23, 2021 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, Historical Fiction, YA

Summary: Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that’s been unleashed on his family and community in the wake of what they see as an unjust and brutal killing.Soon Jerome...

Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 23, 2021 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, Literary Fiction

Summary: The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father’s caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys...