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My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

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

Summary: When Korede’s dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what’s expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This’ll be the third boyfriend Ayoola’s dispatched...

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,...

Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 27, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: Could ten days at a health resort really change you forever? These nine perfect strangers are about to find out… Nine people gather at a remote health resort. Some are here to lose weight, some are here to get a reboot on life, some are here for reasons...

Noir by Christopher Moore

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 27, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, Fantasy

Summary: San Francisco. Summer, 1947. A dame walks into a saloon . . .It’s not every afternoon that an enigmatic, comely blonde named Stilton (like the cheese) walks into the scruffy gin joint where Sammy “Two Toes” Tiffin tends bar. It’s love at first...

Normal People by Sally Rooney

by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 19, 2020 | Book Review, Romance, YA

Summary: At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her housekeeping job at...

NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

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

Summary: Charlie Manx burned a man to death in his black 1938 Rolls Royce Wraith, but that’s not the worst of it. Rumor has it that he kidnapped dozens of children, taking them to a place he calls “Christmasland.” The only child ever to escape was a very lucky girl...