by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 2, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller
Summary: Enter the world of the Pendleton: The original owner became a recluse – and was rumored to be more than half mad – after his wife and two children disappeared in 1897 and were never found. The second owner suffered a worse tragedy in 1935, when...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 2, 2020 | Book Review, YA
Summary: On her tenth birthday, Ellen wakes up to find a silver crown on her pillow; a few minutes later her house burns up, her parents disappear, and she is launched on an adventure involving a trek through the woods, a castle full of brainwashed captives, and the...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 2, 2020 | Book Review, Literary Fiction
Summary: Marion Flint, in her early fifties, has spent fifteen years living a quiet life on the rugged coast of New Zealand, a life that allows the door to her past to remain firmly shut. But a chance meeting with a young boy, Ika, and her desire to help him force...
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...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 1, 2020 | Biography, Book Review, Nonfiction
Summary: Who, you might ask, is Henrietta Lacks (1920-1951) and why is she the subject of a book? On the surface, this short-lived African American Virginian seems an unlikely candidate for immortality. The most remarkable thing about her, some might argue, is that...