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Slade House by David Mitchell

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 27, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, Fantasy

Summary: Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door. Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you’ll find the entrance to Slade House. A stranger will greet you by name and...

Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 27, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me:1. I’m in a coma.2. My husband doesn’t love me anymore.3. Sometimes I lie. Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can’t move. She can’t speak. She can’t open her eyes. She can hear everyone...

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 27, 2020 | Biographical Fiction, Book Review, Historical Fiction

Summary: In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with...

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 27, 2020 | Book Review, Fantasy

Originally Reviewed: Nov 2, 2015 Summary: THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE is a fable that reshapes modern fantasy: moving, terrifying and elegiac – as pure as a dream, as delicate as a butterfly’s wing, as dangerous as a knife in the dark, from...

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 24, 2020 | Book Review, Historical Fiction, YA

Originally reviewed Nov 20, 2012 Summary: It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still. By her brother’s graveside, Liesel’s life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially...