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666 Park Avenue by Gabrielle Pierce

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 8, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: What if your mother-in-law turned out to be an evil, cold-blooded witch . . . literally? Ever since fabulously wealthy Malcolm Doran walked into her life and swept her off her feet, fledgling architect Jane Boyle has been living a fairy tale. When he proposes...

The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 6, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, YA

Summary: When Lewis Barnavelt, an orphan, comes to stay with his uncle Jonathan, he expects to meet an ordinary person. But he is wrong. Uncle Jonathan and his next-door neighbor, Mrs. Zimmermann, are both magicians! Lewis is thrilled. At first, watching magic is...

Centuries of June by Keith Donohue

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

Summary: Face down on the bathroom floor after “a conk on the skull,” Jack, the narrator of Donohue’s unconventional latest, embarks on an epic and darkly funny journey through time and space without traveling much beyond his own bathroom. My take:...

The Silver Crown by Robert O’Brien

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 2, 2020 | Book Review, YA

Summary: On her tenth birthday, Ellen wakes up to find a silver crown on her pillow; a few minutes later her house burns up, her parents disappear, and she is launched on an adventure involving a trek through the woods, a castle full of brainwashed captives, and the...

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 1, 2020 | Biographical Fiction, Book Review, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Summary: In his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transcendent, and moving work yet. Unfolding in a graveyard over the course of a single night, narrated by a dazzling chorus of voices, Lincoln in the Bardo is a...