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Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 24, 2021 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: In this family, everyone is keeping secrets–especially the dead. Brecken Hill in upstate New York is an expensive place to live. You have to be rich to have a house there. And they don’t come much richer than Fred and Sheila Merton. But even all...

October Baby by Eric Wilson

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 1, 2020 | Book Review, Christian Fiction

Summary: “You saw me before I was born.” Psalm 139:16 (NLT) As the curtain rises, Hannah hesitantly steps onto the stage for her theatrical debut in college. Yet before she can utter her first lines, Hannah—unscripted—collapses in front of the stunned...

Odd Hours by Dean Koontz

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 8, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, Fantasy

Summary: Strange times need strange heroes. Odd Thomas lives always between two worlds. He can see the lingering dead and knows that even in chaos, there is order, purpose, and strange meaning that invites our understanding but often thwarts it. Intuition has brought...

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

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

Summary: Tragic tale of a retarded man and the friend who loves and tries to protect him. My take: 3 looks Originally reviewed August 15, 2011 Why have I never read this before? It is on the required reading for so many high schools…Well, it was a good read....

One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 24, 2021 | Book Review, Romance

Summary: In her twenties, Emma Blair marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse. They build a life for themselves, far away from the expectations of their parents and the people of their hometown in Massachusetts. They travel the world together, living life to the...

Operation Bonnet by Kimberly Stuart

by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 5, 2020 | Book Review, Christian Fiction

Summary: Twenty-year-old Nellie Monroe has a restless brilliance that makes her a bit of an odd duck. She wants to be a private investigator, even though her tiny hometown offers no hope of clients. Until she meets Amos Shetler, an Amish dropout carrying a torch for...