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77 Shadow Street by Dean Koontz

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

Summary: Enter the world of the Pendleton: The original owner became a recluse – and was rumored to be more than half mad – after his wife and two children disappeared in 1897 and were never found. The second owner suffered a worse tragedy in 1935, when...

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

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

Summary: This charming classic, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspondence between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London. Through the years, though never meeting and separated both...

A Darker Shade of Magic by V. E. Schwab

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jan 13, 2021 | Book Review, Fantasy, YA

Summary: Kell is one of the last Antari—magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel Londons; Red, Grey, White, and, once upon a time, Black.Kell was raised in Arnes—Red London—and officially serves the Maresh Empire as an ambassador, traveling...

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

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

Summary: A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in an elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across...

A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 9, 2020 | Book Review, Literary Fiction

Summary: The highly anticipated follow-up to Kate Atkinson’s #1 bestseller Life After Life , “one of the best novels I’ve read this century” (Gillian Flynn). Kate Atkinson’s new novel tells the story of Ursula Todd’s beloved younger...

A Land More Kind than Home by Wiley Cash

by Bubbly Bibbly | Dec 22, 2020 | Book Review, Literary Fiction

Summary: A stunning debut reminiscent of the beloved novels of John Hart and Tom Franklin, A Land More Kind Than Home is a mesmerizing literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they face in a small western North Carolina town For a curious boy...