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The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan by Sherry Thomas

by Bubbly Bibbly | Dec 2, 2020 | Book Review, Historical Fiction, YA

Summary: All her life, Mulan has trained for one purpose: to win the duel that every generation in her family must fight. If she prevails, she can reunite a pair of priceless heirloom swords separated decades earlier, and avenge her father, who was paralyzed in his...

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab

by Bubbly Bibbly | Dec 2, 2020 | Book Review, Fantasy

Summary: France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across...

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

by Bubbly Bibbly | Nov 13, 2020 | Book Review, Classic

Summary: Set at a boys’ boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting,...

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

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...

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...