by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 2, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller
Summary: I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in “The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.” As her family lay dying, little Libby fled their tiny farmhouse into the freezing January snow. She...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 1, 2020 | Biography, Book Review, Nonfiction
Summary: Who, you might ask, is Henrietta Lacks (1920-1951) and why is she the subject of a book? On the surface, this short-lived African American Virginian seems an unlikely candidate for immortality. The most remarkable thing about her, some might argue, is that...
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...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 28, 2020 | Book Review, Historical Fiction, Romance
Summary: The lonely young Appalachian woman joins the historical Pack Horse Library Project of Kentucky and becomes a librarian, riding across slippery creek beds and up treacherous mountains on her faithful mule to deliver books and other reading material to the...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 27, 2020 | Book Review, Romance
Summary: In this poignant and sparkling debut, a lovable widower embarks on a life-changing adventureSixty-nine-year-old Arthur Pepper lives a simple life. He gets out of bed at precisely 7:30 a.m., just as he did when his wife, Miriam, was alive. He dresses in the...