novella Archives - Bubbly Bibbly

Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 23, 2021 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, Historical Fiction, YA

Summary: Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that’s been unleashed on his family and community in the wake of what they see as an unjust and brutal killing.Soon Jerome...

Blue Marlin by Lee Smith

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jan 29, 2021 | Biographical Fiction, Book Review

Summary: On a patched-up family vacation to Key West, a young girl seeks out movie stars and redemption for her fractured family.Lee Smith brings her masterful storytelling magic to this jewel of a novella that follows Jenny, an adventurous thirteen-year-old, down to...

Beekeeping for Beginners by Laurie R. King

by Bubbly Bibbly | Dec 17, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: Sherlock Holmes is fending off a particularly dark mood as he roams the Sussex Downs, in search of wild bees. The Great War may be raging across the Channel, but on the Downs, the great detective nears terminal melancholia—only to be saved by an encounter...

Ajax Penumbra 1969 by Robin Sloan

by Bubbly Bibbly | Dec 17, 2020 | Book Review, Fantasy

Summary: August 1969 San Francisco. Ajax Penumbra seeks a book–the single surviving copy of the Techne Tycheon, a mysterious volume that has brought and lost great fortune for anyone who has owned it. Late one night, after another day of dispiriting dead ends,...

Elevation by Stephen King, Mark Edward Geyer

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 27, 2020 | Book Review, Fantasy

Summary: Although Scott Carey doesn’t look any different, he’s been steadily losing weight. There are a couple of other odd things, too. He weighs the same in his clothes and out of them, no matter how heavy they are. Scott doesn’t want to be poked and prodded. He...