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Banned Books Week: By the Numbers

by Bubbly Bibbly | Oct 1, 2020 | OpEd

Did you ever wonder who is asking for materials to be removed, challenging the acceptability of items, or where these requests/demands are made? Here is a very informative graphic from the American Library...

The Handmaid and the Carpenter by Elizabeth Berg

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 9, 2020 | Book Review, Holidays, Romance

Summary: In this wonderful novel about love and trust, hope and belief, Elizabeth Berg transports us to Nazareth in biblical times to reimagine the events of the classic Christmas story. We see Mary–young, strong, and inquisitive–as she first meets Joseph, a...

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 8, 2020 | Book Review, Literary Fiction

Summary: Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of...

House by Frank Peretti

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 2, 2020 | Book Review, Christian Fiction, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: Enter House – where you’ll find yourself thrown into a killer’s deadly game in which the only way to win is to lose…and the only way out is in. The stakes of the game become clear when a tin can is tossed into the house with rules...

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 1, 2020 | Book Review, Classic, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, Literary Fiction

Summary: In the world of the near future, who will control women’s bodies? Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets in which signs are now pictures instead of words...