by Bubbly Bibbly | Oct 3, 2020 | Book Review, Historical Fiction
Summary: Tommy Orange’s wondrous and shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize. Among them is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 9, 2020 | Book Review, Literary Fiction
Summary: A respected white citizen of Cotton Point, Georgia, Paris Trout is a shopkeeper, a money-lender, and a murderer of blacks. And his friends, family and foes do not realize the danger they face in a man who simply will not see his own guilt. My take: 2 looks ...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 9, 2020 | Book Review, Literary Fiction
Summary: The Pecan Man is a work of Southern fiction whose first chapter was the First Place winner of the 2006 CNW/FFWA Florida State Writing Competition in the Unpublished Novel category. In the summer of 1976, recently widowed and childless, Ora Lee Beckworth hires...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 4, 2020 | Book Review, Historical Fiction
Summary: Nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper is newly married to a rich and charming widower, eager to join him on his tea plantation, determined to be the perfect wife and mother. But life in Ceylon is not what Gwen expected. The plantation workers are resentful, the...
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...