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Educated by Tara Westover

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 27, 2020 | Biography, Book Review, Nonfiction

Summary: Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her “head-for-the-hills bag”. In the summer...

Slade House by David Mitchell

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

Summary: Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door. Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you’ll find the entrance to Slade House. A stranger will greet you by name and...

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 27, 2020 | Book Review, Fantasy

Originally Reviewed: Nov 2, 2015 Summary: THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE is a fable that reshapes modern fantasy: moving, terrifying and elegiac – as pure as a dream, as delicate as a butterfly’s wing, as dangerous as a knife in the dark, from...

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 24, 2020 | Book Review, Historical Fiction, YA

Originally reviewed Nov 20, 2012 Summary: It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still. By her brother’s graveside, Liesel’s life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially...

I Am Half-Sick of Shadows (Flavia De Luce #4) by Alan Bradley

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jun 2, 2018 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: It’s Christmastime, and the precocious Flavia de Luce – an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry and a penchant for crime-solving – is tucked away in her laboratory, whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick. But she is...