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Dreamland Burning by Jennifer

by Bubbly Bibbly | Mar 14, 2021 | Book Review, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Summary: When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family’s property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the past, the present, and herself.One hundred years earlier, a...

A Land More Kind than Home by Wiley Cash

by Bubbly Bibbly | Dec 22, 2020 | Book Review, Literary Fiction

Summary: A stunning debut reminiscent of the beloved novels of John Hart and Tom Franklin, A Land More Kind Than Home is a mesmerizing literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they face in a small western North Carolina town For a curious boy...

A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons

by Bubbly Bibbly | Nov 19, 2020 | Book Review, Literary Fiction

Summary: When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was 20 and he was 40. She was the daughter of Carolina gentry. He was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. They didn’t fall in love so much as they simply found each other...

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

by Bubbly Bibbly | Nov 18, 2020 | Book Review, Literary Fiction

Summary: At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate...

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

by Bubbly Bibbly | Oct 26, 2020 | Book Review, Literary Fiction

Summary: In an unnamed South American country, a world-renowned soprano sings at a birthday party in honor of a visiting Japanese industrial titan. Alas, in the opening sequence, a ragtag band of 18 terrorists enters the vice-presidential mansion through the air...

Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler

by Bubbly Bibbly | Oct 22, 2020 | Book Review, Literary Fiction

Summary: Kate Battista feels stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and her uppity, pretty younger sister, Bunny? Plus, she’s always in trouble at work—her preschool charges adore her, but their parents don’t always...