by Bubbly Bibbly | Oct 23, 2020 | Book Review
Summary: Luanne Rice is a rarity among novelists today; she’s a true storyteller. Her unique ability to weave together the bonds of love and family with the challenges and rewards of everyday life has garnered her eight consecutive top-ten New York Times...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Oct 19, 2020 | Book Review, Romance
Summary: In a sleepy seaside town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth “Evvie” Drake rarely leaves her large, painfully empty house nearly a year after her husband’s death in a car crash. Everyone in town, even her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Oct 8, 2020 | Book Review
Summary: First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Oct 3, 2020 | Book Review, Historical Fiction
Summary: Tommy Orange’s wondrous and shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize. Among them is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 12, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller
Summary: A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history,...