3 Looks Archives - Bubbly Bibbly

Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald

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

Summary: They are the Pipers of Cape Breton Island — a family steeped in lies and unspoken truths that reach out from the past, forever mindful of the tragic secret that could shatter the family to its foundations. Chronicling five generations of this eccentric...

One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 24, 2021 | Book Review, Romance

Summary: In her twenties, Emma Blair marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse. They build a life for themselves, far away from the expectations of their parents and the people of their hometown in Massachusetts. They travel the world together, living life to the...

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...

Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 23, 2021 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, Literary Fiction

Summary: The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father’s caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys...

The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir by Jennifer Ryan

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 21, 2021 | Book Review, Historical Fiction

Summary: The village of Chilbury in Kent is about to ring in some changes. This is a delightful novel of wartime gumption and village spirit that will make your heart sing out. Kent, 1940. In the idyllic village of Chilbury change is afoot. Hearts are breaking as sons...