by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 8, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, Fantasy
Summary: Strange times need strange heroes. Odd Thomas lives always between two worlds. He can see the lingering dead and knows that even in chaos, there is order, purpose, and strange meaning that invites our understanding but often thwarts it. Intuition has brought...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 8, 2020 | Book Review, Literary Fiction
Summary: Gabrielle Zevin’s enchanting novel is a love letter to the world of books–and booksellers–that changes our lives by giving us the stories that open our hearts and enlighten our minds. On the faded Island Books sign hanging over the porch of the...
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...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 8, 2020 | Book Review, YA
Summary: Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps” even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 8, 2020 | Book Review, Fantasy, YA
Summary: A has no friends. No parents. No family. No possessions. No home, even. Because every day, A wakes up in the body of a different person. Every morning, a different bed. A different room. A different house. A different life. A is able to access each...