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77 Shadow Street by Dean Koontz

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 2, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: Enter the world of the Pendleton: The original owner became a recluse – and was rumored to be more than half mad – after his wife and two children disappeared in 1897 and were never found. The second owner suffered a worse tragedy in 1935, when...

Dark Objects by Gillian Flynn

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 2, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in “The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.” As her family lay dying, little Libby fled their tiny farmhouse into the freezing January snow. She...

When the Lights Go Out by Mary Kubica

by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 27, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: Jessie Sloane is on the path to rebuilding her life after years of caring for her ailing mother. She rents a new apartment and applies for college. But when the college informs her that her social security number has raised a red flag, Jessie discovers a...

The Children’s Blizzard by David Laskin

by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 24, 2020 | Biographical Fiction, Book Review, Historical Fiction

Summary: The gripping story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier.January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the...

Normal People by Sally Rooney

by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 19, 2020 | Book Review, Romance, YA

Summary: At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her housekeeping job at...