Nonfiction Archives - Bubbly Bibbly

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

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

Summary: This charming classic, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspondence between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London. Through the years, though never meeting and separated both...

Bitter Is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office by Jen Lancaster

by Bubbly Bibbly | Oct 21, 2020 | Book Review, Nonfiction

Summary: This is the story of how a haughty former sorority girl went from having a household income of almost a quarter-million dollars to being evicted from a ghetto apartment… It’s a modern Greek tragedy, as defined by Roger Dunkle in The Classical...

Educated by Tara Westover

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 27, 2020 | Biography, Book Review, Nonfiction

Summary: Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her “head-for-the-hills bag”. In the summer...

Negrophilia by Erik Rush

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 31, 2020 | Book Review, Nonfiction

Summary: Negrophilia studies the undue and inordinate affinity for blacks (as opposed to antipathy toward them) that has been promoted by activists, politicians and the establishment press for the past 40 years and which has fostered an erroneous perception of blacks,...

Out on the Wire by Jessica Abel

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 2, 2020 | Biography, Book Review, Nonfiction

Summary: Go behind the scenes of seven of today’s most popular narrative radio shows and podcasts, including This American Life and RadioLab, in graphic narrative. Every week, millions of devoted fans tune in to or download This American Life, The Moth, Radiolab,...

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...