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Best Of – Holiday Edition Day 6

by Bubbly Bibbly | Dec 29, 2022 | Book Review

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 24, 2021 | Book Review, Historical Fiction

Summary: Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they’ve known. Separated from...

Bitter Is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office by Jen Lancaster

by Bubbly Bibbly | Oct 21, 2020 | Book Review, Nonfiction

Summary: This is the story of how a haughty former sorority girl went from having a household income of almost a quarter-million dollars to being evicted from a ghetto apartment… It’s a modern Greek tragedy, as defined by Roger Dunkle in The Classical...

Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour

by Bubbly Bibbly | Feb 22, 2021 | Book Review

Summary: An unambitious twenty-two-year-old, Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, who wants nothing more than to see him live up to his potential as the valedictorian of Bronx Science. But Darren is content working at Starbucks in the lobby of a...

Black Out by Lisa Unger

by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 7, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: When my mother named me Ophelia, she thought she was being literary. She didn’t realize she was being tragic. On the surface, Annie Powers’ life in a wealthy Floridian suburb is happy and idyllic. Her husband, Gray, loves her fiercely; together, they dote on...

Blessed Are the Cheesemakers by Sarah-Kate Lynch

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 8, 2020 | Book Review

Summary: Abby has been estranged from the family farm since her rebellious mother ran off with her when she was a small child. Kit is a burned out New York stockbroker who’s down on his luck. But that’s all about to change, now that he and Abby have...