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Aunt Dimity’s Christmas by Nancy Atherton

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 9, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, Holidays

Summary: Lori Shepherd and her family spend Christmas in the cottage willed to her by her late Aunt Dimity, but when she discovers a stranger barely alive in the snow, she teams up with a priest and together they unveil the tragic secret that led the stranger to her...

Blue Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 9, 2020 | Book Review, Holidays

Summary: The popular Mary Kay Andrews delivers a tasty holiday treat as she brings back the winning characters from Savannah Blues and Savannah Breeze for a little Southern cheer. It’s the week before Christmas, and antiques dealer Weezie Foley is in a frenzy to...

A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 9, 2020 | Book Review, Literary Fiction

Summary: In this bestselling and delightfully quirky debut novel from Sweden, a grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door. Meet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon—the kind of man who points at people he...

Paris Trout by Pete Dexter

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 9, 2020 | Book Review, Literary Fiction

Summary: A respected white citizen of Cotton Point, Georgia, Paris Trout is a shopkeeper, a money-lender, and a murderer of blacks. And his friends, family and foes do not realize the danger they face in a man who simply will not see his own guilt. My take: 2 looks ...

The Pecan Man by Cassie Dandridge Selleck

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 9, 2020 | Book Review, Literary Fiction

Summary: The Pecan Man is a work of Southern fiction whose first chapter was the First Place winner of the 2006 CNW/FFWA Florida State Writing Competition in the Unpublished Novel category. In the summer of 1976, recently widowed and childless, Ora Lee Beckworth hires...