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A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson

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

Summary: The highly anticipated follow-up to Kate Atkinson’s #1 bestseller Life After Life , “one of the best novels I’ve read this century” (Gillian Flynn). Kate Atkinson’s new novel tells the story of Ursula Todd’s beloved younger...

Looking for Alaska by John Green

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 8, 2020 | Book Review, YA

Summary: Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps” even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes...

The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

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

Summary: Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I’d disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for...

The Dark Glamour by Gabriella Pierce

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

Summary: Jane Boyle married her prince charming and moved into his upper east side castle–but she didn’t get her fairy-tale ending It’s hard to live happily ever after when you discover your demanding and controlling mother-in-law is literally a...

11/22/63 by Stephen King

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 8, 2020 | Alternate History, Book Review

Summary: If you had the chance to change the course of history, would you? Would the consequences be worth it? Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who teaches adults for extra money. One student submits a gruesome,...