by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 24, 2020 | Biographical Fiction, Book Review, Historical Fiction
Summary: The gripping story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier.January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 23, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, Fantasy, Romance
Summary: Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass and cedar palace on an island in British Columbia. Jonathan Alkaitis works in finance and owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it’s the beginning of their life...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 19, 2020 | Book Review, Romance, YA
Summary: At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her housekeeping job at...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 9, 2020 | Book Review
Summary: Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 7, 2020 | Book Review, Classic
Summary: Tragic tale of a retarded man and the friend who loves and tries to protect him. My take: 3 looks Originally reviewed August 15, 2011 Why have I never read this before? It is on the required reading for so many high schools…Well, it was a good read....