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The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

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

Summary: Gabrielle Zevin’s enchanting novel is a love letter to the world of books–and booksellers–that changes our lives by giving us the stories that open our hearts and enlighten our minds. On the faded Island Books sign hanging over the porch of the...

The Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman

by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 5, 2020 | Book Review

Summary: The Story Sisters charts the lives of three sisters–Elv, Claire, and Meg. Each has a fate she must meet alone: one on a country road, one in the streets of Paris, and one in the corridors of her own imagination. Inhabiting their world are a charismatic man...

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 27, 2020 | Biographical Fiction, Book Review, Historical Fiction

Summary: In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with...

The Tea Planter’s Wife by Dinah Jefferies

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 4, 2020 | Book Review, Historical Fiction

Summary: Nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper is newly married to a rich and charming widower, eager to join him on his tea plantation, determined to be the perfect wife and mother. But life in Ceylon is not what Gwen expected. The plantation workers are resentful, the...

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 29, 2020 | Biographical Fiction, Book Review, Historical Fiction

Summary: In 1979, Tim O’Brien’s Going After Cacciato—a novel about the Vietnam War—won the National Book Award. In this, his second work of fiction about Vietnam, O’Brien’s unique artistic vision is again clearly demonstrated. Neither a novel...

The Violets of March by Sarah Jio

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

Summary: In her twenties, Emily Wilson was on top of the world: she had a bestselling novel, a husband plucked from the pages of GQ, and a one-way ticket to happily ever after. Ten years later, the tide has turned on Emily’s good fortune. So when her great-aunt...