by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 8, 2020 | OpEd
Straight from paidcontent.org:50 Shades of Grey is the first title in a trilogy by British author E. L. James. This morning, the NYT reports (in what is currently the most-emailed article on the site) that the book has “electrified women across the country, who have...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 8, 2020 | Book Review, YA
Summary: Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps” even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 1, 2020 | Book Review, Christian Fiction
Summary: “You saw me before I was born.” Psalm 139:16 (NLT) As the curtain rises, Hannah hesitantly steps onto the stage for her theatrical debut in college. Yet before she can utter her first lines, Hannah—unscripted—collapses in front of the stunned...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 7, 2020 | Book Review
Summary: Malik Solanka, historian of ideas and world-famous dollmaker, steps out of his life one day, abandons his family in London without a word of explanation, and flees for New York. There’s a fury within him, and he fears he has become dangerous to those he...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 31, 2020 | Book Review, Historical Fiction
Summary: For twenty-five years, a reclusive American novelist has been writing at the desk she inherited from a young Chilean poet who disappeared at the hands of Pinochet’s secret police, one day a girl claiming to be the poet’s daughter arrives to take...