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The Silver Crown by Robert O’Brien

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 2, 2020 | Book Review, YA

Summary: On her tenth birthday, Ellen wakes up to find a silver crown on her pillow; a few minutes later her house burns up, her parents disappear, and she is launched on an adventure involving a trek through the woods, a castle full of brainwashed captives, and the...

Dark Objects by Gillian Flynn

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 2, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in “The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.” As her family lay dying, little Libby fled their tiny farmhouse into the freezing January snow. She...

The Memory of Love by Linda Olsson

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 2, 2020 | Book Review, Literary Fiction

Summary: Marion Flint, in her early fifties, has spent fifteen years living a quiet life on the rugged coast of New Zealand, a life that allows the door to her past to remain firmly shut. But a chance meeting with a young boy, Ika, and her desire to help him force...

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...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 1, 2020 | Biography, Book Review, Nonfiction

Summary: Who, you might ask, is Henrietta Lacks (1920-1951) and why is she the subject of a book? On the surface, this short-lived African American Virginian seems an unlikely candidate for immortality. The most remarkable thing about her, some might argue, is that...