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A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jun 2, 2018 | Book Review, Historical Fiction

Summary: In Brooklyn, eighteen-year-old Deya is starting to meet with suitors. Though she doesn’t want to get married, her grandparents give her no choice. History is repeating itself: Deya’s mother, Isra, also had no choice when she left Palestine as a teenager to...

Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jun 2, 2018 | Book Review, Nonfiction

Summary: In 1887, Nellie Bly accepted an assignment from publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World and went undercover at the lunatic asylum on Blackwell Island, America’s first municipal mental hospital. Calling herself “Nellie Brown,” she was...

The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jun 2, 2018 | Biographical Fiction, Book Review, Historical Fiction

Summary: “I am Ana. I was the wife of Jesus.” So begins the new novel from the number one New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings, an extraordinary story set in the first century about a woman who finds her voice and her...

I Am Half-Sick of Shadows (Flavia De Luce #4) by Alan Bradley

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jun 2, 2018 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: It’s Christmastime, and the precocious Flavia de Luce – an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry and a penchant for crime-solving – is tucked away in her laboratory, whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick. But she is...

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jun 2, 2018 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, Videos

Summary: Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home...