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Chasing Fireflies: A Novel of Discovery by Charles Martin

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 31, 2020 | Book Review, Christian Fiction

Summary: They have one summer to find what was lost long ago. “Never settle for less than the truth,” she told him. But when you don’t even know your real name, the truth gets a little complicated. It can nestle so close to home it’s hard to...

Cold Fire by Dean Koontz

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 3, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: The classic story of reporter Holly Thorne, who is intrigued by the strange, quiet Jim Ironheart. Jim has saved 12 lives in three months, and now Holly’s falling in love with him. But what power compels an ordinary man to be a hero? My take: 3 looks ...

Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 21, 2021 | Book Review, Literary Fiction

Summary: A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous break up.Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six, but nobody knows the real reason why they split at the...

Dark Objects by Gillian Flynn

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 2, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in “The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.” As her family lay dying, little Libby fled their tiny farmhouse into the freezing January snow. She...

Doc by Mary Doria Russell

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 29, 2020 | Book Review, Historical Fiction, Western

Summary: The year is 1878, peak of the Texas cattle trade. The place is Dodge City, Kansas, a saloon-filled cow town jammed with liquored-up adolescent cowboys and young Irish hookers. Violence is random and routine, but when the burned body of a mixed-blood boy named...

Doctor Olaf van Schuler’s Brain by Kirsten Menger-Anderson

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 8, 2020 | Book Review, Historical Fiction

Summary: In 1664 Dr. Olaf van Schuler flees the Old World and arrives in New Amsterdam with his lunatic mother, two bags of medical implements, and a carefully guarded book of his own medicines. He is the first in what will become a long line of peculiar physicians....