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Fury by Salman Rushdie

by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 7, 2020 | Book Review

Summary: Malik Solanka, historian of ideas and world-famous dollmaker, steps out of his life one day, abandons his family in London without a word of explanation, and flees for New York. There’s a fury within him, and he fears he has become dangerous to those he...

I Am Not a Serial Killer by Dan Wells

by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 5, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, YA

Summary: John Wayne Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it. He’s spent his life doing his best not to live up to his potential. He’s obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn’t want to become one. So for his own sake, and the safety of those...

The Drowning Tree by Carol Goodman

by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 5, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: Juno McKay intended to avoid the nearby campus of her alma mater during her fifteenth reunion weekend, but she just can’t turn down the chance to see her longtime friend, Christine Webb, speak at the Penrose College library. Though Juno cringes at the...

Midwives by Chris Bohjalian

by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 5, 2020 | Book Review

Summary: The time is 1981, and Sibyl Danforth has been a dedicated midwife in the rural community of Reddington, Vermont, for fifteen years. But one treacherous winter night, in a house isolated by icy roads and failed telephone lines, Sibyl takes desperate measures...

Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 5, 2020 | Book Review, Historical Fiction

Summary: Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family’s apartment, thinking that she will be back...