by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 27, 2020 | Biographical Fiction, Book Review, Historical Fiction
Summary: In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with...
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...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Jun 2, 2018 | Book Review, Nonfiction
Summary: In 1887, Nellie Bly accepted an assignment from publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World and went undercover at the lunatic asylum on Blackwell Island, America’s first municipal mental hospital. Calling herself “Nellie Brown,” she was...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Jun 2, 2018 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, Videos
Summary: Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Jun 2, 2018 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, Fantasy
Summary: Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula in this Southern-flavored supernatural thriller set in the ’90s about a women’s book club that must protect its suburban community from a mysterious and handsome stranger who turns out to be a...