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Matched by Ally Condie

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 29, 2020 | Book Review, Romance, YA

Summary: Cassia has always trusted their choices. It’s hardly any price to pay for a long life, the perfect job, the ideal mate. So when her best friend appears on the Matching screen, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is the one…until she sees another face...

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 29, 2020 | Biographical Fiction, Book Review, Historical Fiction

Summary: In 1979, Tim O’Brien’s Going After Cacciato—a novel about the Vietnam War—won the National Book Award. In this, his second work of fiction about Vietnam, O’Brien’s unique artistic vision is again clearly demonstrated. Neither a novel...

Doc by Mary Doria Russell

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 29, 2020 | Book Review, Historical Fiction, Western

Summary: The year is 1878, peak of the Texas cattle trade. The place is Dodge City, Kansas, a saloon-filled cow town jammed with liquored-up adolescent cowboys and young Irish hookers. Violence is random and routine, but when the burned body of a mixed-blood boy named...

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 29, 2020 | Book Review, Historical Fiction

Summary: Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies. When his father is killed in the...

Waking Gods by Sylvain Neuvel

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

Summary: As a child, Rose Franklin made an astonishing discovery: a giant metallic hand, buried deep within the earth. As an adult, she’s dedicated her brilliant scientific career to solving the mystery that began that fateful day: Why was a titanic robot of unknown...