Award Winner Archives - Bubbly Bibbly

King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jan 15, 2021 | Book Review, YA

Summary: Twelve-year-old Kingston James is sure his brother Khalid has turned into a dragonfly. When Khalid unexpectedly passed away, he shed what was his first skin for another to live down by the bayou in their small Louisiana town. Khalid still visits in dreams,...

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

by Bubbly Bibbly | Oct 26, 2020 | Book Review, Literary Fiction

Summary: In an unnamed South American country, a world-renowned soprano sings at a birthday party in honor of a visiting Japanese industrial titan. Alas, in the opening sequence, a ragtag band of 18 terrorists enters the vice-presidential mansion through the air...

Paris Trout by Pete Dexter

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 9, 2020 | Book Review, Literary Fiction

Summary: A respected white citizen of Cotton Point, Georgia, Paris Trout is a shopkeeper, a money-lender, and a murderer of blacks. And his friends, family and foes do not realize the danger they face in a man who simply will not see his own guilt. My take: 2 looks ...

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 8, 2020 | Book Review, Literary Fiction

Summary: Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of...

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 1, 2020 | Book Review, Classic, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, Literary Fiction

Summary: In the world of the near future, who will control women’s bodies? Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets in which signs are now pictures instead of words...