by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 27, 2020 | Book Review, Fantasy, SciFi
Summary: Some stories cannot be told in just one lifetime. Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 27, 2020 | Book Review, Nonfiction
Summary: This charming classic, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspondence between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London. Through the years, though never meeting and separated both...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 27, 2020 | Book Review, Fantasy
Summary: It’s the dubious distinction of thirty-year-old Willa Jackson to hail from a fine old Southern family of means that met with financial ruin generations ago. The Blue Ridge Madam—built by Willa’s great-great-grandfather during Walls of Water’s heyday, and once...
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...
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...