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Looking for Alaska by John Green

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

Summary: Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps” even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes...

Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson

by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 7, 2020 | Book Review, Romance

Summary: Written with a delightfully dry sense of humour and the wisdom of a born storyteller, Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand explores the risks one takes when pursuing happiness in the face of family obligation and tradition. When retired Major Pettigrew strikes...

Matched by Ally Condie

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 29, 2020 | Book Review, Romance, YA

Summary: Cassia has always trusted their choices. It’s hardly any price to pay for a long life, the perfect job, the ideal mate. So when her best friend appears on the Matching screen, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is the one…until she sees another face...

Medusa’s Sisters by Lauren J.A. Bear

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 9, 2024 | Book Review, Literary Fiction

My Take: I am on a Greek gods kick since listening to Madeline Miller’s “The Song of Achilles”. Thank goodness, there is no lack of Greek god novels out there! I saw Medusa’s Sisters on the “available” shelf of audiobooks online,...

Midwives by Chris Bohjalian

by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 5, 2020 | Book Review

Summary: The time is 1981, and Sibyl Danforth has been a dedicated midwife in the rural community of Reddington, Vermont, for fifteen years. But one treacherous winter night, in a house isolated by icy roads and failed telephone lines, Sibyl takes desperate measures...

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 7, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, SciFi

Summary: A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children , an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading...