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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...

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...

Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 23, 2021 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, Literary Fiction

Summary: The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father’s caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys...

Elevation by Stephen King, Mark Edward Geyer

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

Summary: Although Scott Carey doesn’t look any different, he’s been steadily losing weight. There are a couple of other odd things, too. He weighs the same in his clothes and out of them, no matter how heavy they are. Scott doesn’t want to be poked and prodded. He...

every day by David Levithan

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 8, 2020 | Book Review, Fantasy, YA

Summary: A has no friends. No parents. No family. No possessions. No home, even. Because every day, A wakes up in the body of a different person. Every morning, a different bed. A different room. A different house. A different life. A is able to access each...

Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes

by Bubbly Bibbly | Oct 19, 2020 | Book Review, Romance

Summary: In a sleepy seaside town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth “Evvie” Drake rarely leaves her large, painfully empty house nearly a year after her husband’s death in a car crash. Everyone in town, even her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked...