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I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 3, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: In this deeply suspenseful and irresistibly unnerving debut novel, a man and his girlfriend are on their way to a secluded farm. When the two take an unexpected detour, she is left stranded in a deserted high school, wondering if there is any escape at all....

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 3, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, Literary Fiction

Summary: A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that...

In the Company of Cheerful Ladies by Alexander McCall Smith

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 3, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: In the newest addition to the universally beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, the charming and ever-resourceful Precious Ramotswe finds herself overly beset by problems. She is already busier than usual at the detective agency when added to her...

The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 3, 2020 | Book Review, SciFi

Summary: On a seemingly ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia and her family awake to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth has suddenly begun to slow. The days and nights grow longer and longer, gravity is affected, the...

Paper Ghosts by Julia Heaberlin

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 3, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: An obsessive young woman has been waiting half her life—since she was twelve years old—for this moment. She has planned. Researched. Trained. Imagined every scenario. Now she is almost certain the man who kidnapped and murdered her sister sits in the...