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The Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 3, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

3Summary: For more than thirteen years, devoted father and husband Ethan Ford has been running from his past. But one day the police show up at his door-and his life as an irreproachable family man and heroic volunteer fireman begins to come apart. My take: 4 looks ...

Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 3, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: A young couple who move into a Manhattan apartment are approached by their elderly neighbors, who want to be their friends. My take: 4 looks Originally reviewed November 8, 2013 Can you believe the short summary of this ground-breaking novel? Perhaps the...

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 3, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: ‘What are you thinking, Amy? The question I’ve asked most often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I suppose these questions storm cloud over every marriage: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who...

I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 3, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: In this deeply suspenseful and irresistibly unnerving debut novel, a man and his girlfriend are on their way to a secluded farm. When the two take an unexpected detour, she is left stranded in a deserted high school, wondering if there is any escape at all....

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 3, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, Literary Fiction

Summary: A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that...