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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson

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...

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 9, 2020 | Book Review

Summary: Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her...

Negrophilia by Erik Rush

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 31, 2020 | Book Review, Nonfiction

Summary: Negrophilia studies the undue and inordinate affinity for blacks (as opposed to antipathy toward them) that has been promoted by activists, politicians and the establishment press for the past 40 years and which has fostered an erroneous perception of blacks,...

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 24, 2020 | Book Review, Historical Fiction, YA

Originally reviewed Nov 20, 2012 Summary: It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still. By her brother’s graveside, Liesel’s life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially...