by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 8, 2020 | Book Review, Fantasy
Summary: What if you closed your eyes, blew out the candles, and your wish came true? Ellie Jerome is a young-at-heart seventy-five-year-old who feels she has more in common with her twenty-nine-year-old granddaughter, Lucy, than her fifty-five-year-old daughter,...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 8, 2020 | Book Review, Historical Fiction
Summary: In 1664 Dr. Olaf van Schuler flees the Old World and arrives in New Amsterdam with his lunatic mother, two bags of medical implements, and a carefully guarded book of his own medicines. He is the first in what will become a long line of peculiar physicians....
by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 8, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller
Summary: Carl Mørck used to be one of Copenhagen’s best homicide detectives. Then a hail of bullets destroyed the lives of two fellow cops, and Carl—who didn’t draw his weapon—blames himself. So a promotion is the last thing he expects. But Department Q is a...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 6, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, YA
Summary: When Lewis Barnavelt, an orphan, comes to stay with his uncle Jonathan, he expects to meet an ordinary person. But he is wrong. Uncle Jonathan and his next-door neighbor, Mrs. Zimmermann, are both magicians! Lewis is thrilled. At first, watching magic is...
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...