by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 9, 2020 | Book Review, Literary Fiction
Summary: In this bestselling and delightfully quirky debut novel from Sweden, a grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door. Meet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon—the kind of man who points at people he...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 9, 2020 | Book Review, Literary Fiction
Summary: A respected white citizen of Cotton Point, Georgia, Paris Trout is a shopkeeper, a money-lender, and a murderer of blacks. And his friends, family and foes do not realize the danger they face in a man who simply will not see his own guilt. My take: 2 looks ...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 9, 2020 | Book Review, Literary Fiction
Summary: The Pecan Man is a work of Southern fiction whose first chapter was the First Place winner of the 2006 CNW/FFWA Florida State Writing Competition in the Unpublished Novel category. In the summer of 1976, recently widowed and childless, Ora Lee Beckworth hires...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 9, 2020 | Book Review, Literary Fiction
Summary: The highly anticipated follow-up to Kate Atkinson’s #1 bestseller Life After Life , “one of the best novels I’ve read this century” (Gillian Flynn). Kate Atkinson’s new novel tells the story of Ursula Todd’s beloved younger...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 8, 2020 | Book Review, Literary Fiction
Summary: Gabrielle Zevin’s enchanting novel is a love letter to the world of books–and booksellers–that changes our lives by giving us the stories that open our hearts and enlighten our minds. On the faded Island Books sign hanging over the porch of the...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 8, 2020 | Book Review, Literary Fiction
Summary: Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of...