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Angelology by Danielle Trussoni

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 29, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, Fantasy

Summary: Abandoned as a Child on the steps of St Rose Convent in New York. Evangeline Cacciatore grew up knowing little of her parents. Assisting a scholar in the convent one day, she uncovers a disturbning secret conected to her family. My take: 4 looks Originally...

A Vintage Affair by Isabel Wolff

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

Summary: Phoebe Sanders runs her own vintage dress shop. But while she stitches and repairs couture suits and glorious dresses, there is something in Phoebe’s own past that she cannot restore, and which is stopping her searching for love. My take: 4 looks ...

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...

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...