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Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jun 2, 2018 | Book Review, Nonfiction

Summary: In 1887, Nellie Bly accepted an assignment from publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World and went undercover at the lunatic asylum on Blackwell Island, America’s first municipal mental hospital. Calling herself “Nellie Brown,” she was...

The Actor and the Housewife by Shannon Hale

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 31, 2020 | Book Review, Romance

Summary: Mormon housewife Becky Jack is seven months pregnant with her fourth child when she meets celebrity hearththrob Felix Callahan. Twelve hours, one elevator ride, and one alcohol-free dinner later, something has happened…though nothing has happened. It isn’t...

The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 3, 2020 | Book Review, SciFi

Summary: On a seemingly ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia and her family awake to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth has suddenly begun to slow. The days and nights grow longer and longer, gravity is affected, the...

The Art of Saying Goodbye by Ellen Bache

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 3, 2020 | Book Review

Summary: She was the thread that wove their tapestry together. With a group of women as diverse as the ladies from Brightwood Trace, you might not think them to be close. There’s Julianne, a nurse with an unsettling psychic ability that allows her to literally...

The Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 3, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

3Summary: For more than thirteen years, devoted father and husband Ethan Ford has been running from his past. But one day the police show up at his door-and his life as an irreproachable family man and heroic volunteer fireman begins to come apart. My take: 4 looks ...

The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jun 2, 2018 | Biographical Fiction, Book Review, Historical Fiction

Summary: “I am Ana. I was the wife of Jesus.” So begins the new novel from the number one New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings, an extraordinary story set in the first century about a woman who finds her voice and her...