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A Visit from the Good Squad by Jennifer Egan

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 29, 2020 | Book Review

Summary: We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist’s couch in New York City, confronting her long-standing compulsion to steal. Later, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage, then as a runaway living in...

A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum

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

Summary: In Brooklyn, eighteen-year-old Deya is starting to meet with suitors. Though she doesn’t want to get married, her grandparents give her no choice. History is repeating itself: Deya’s mother, Isra, also had no choice when she left Palestine as a teenager to...

Agatha of Little Neon by Claire Luchette

by Bubbly Bibbly | Nov 24, 2021 | Book Review, Literary Fiction

Summary: Agatha has lived every day of the last nine years with her sisters: they work together, laugh together, pray together. Their world is contained within the little house they share. The four of them are devoted to Mother Roberta and to their quiet, purposeful...

Agnes and the Hitman by Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer

by Bubbly Bibbly | Nov 18, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: Agnes Crandall’s life goes awry when a dognapper invades her kitchen one night, seriously hampering her attempts to put on a wedding that she’s staked her entire net worth on. Then a hero climbs through her bedroom window. His name is Shane, no...

Ajax Penumbra 1969 by Robin Sloan

by Bubbly Bibbly | Dec 17, 2020 | Book Review, Fantasy

Summary: August 1969 San Francisco. Ajax Penumbra seeks a book–the single surviving copy of the Techne Tycheon, a mysterious volume that has brought and lost great fortune for anyone who has owned it. Late one night, after another day of dispiriting dead ends,...

All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda

by Bubbly Bibbly | Oct 23, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: Like the spellbinding psychological suspense in The Girl on the Train and Luckiest Girl Alive, Megan Miranda’s novel is a nail-biting, breathtaking story about the disappearances of two young women—a decade apart—told in reverse. It’s been ten years since...