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Ajax Penumbra 1969 by Robin Sloan

by Bubbly Bibbly | Dec 17, 2020 | Book Review, Fantasy

Summary: August 1969 San Francisco. Ajax Penumbra seeks a book–the single surviving copy of the Techne Tycheon, a mysterious volume that has brought and lost great fortune for anyone who has owned it. Late one night, after another day of dispiriting dead ends,...

The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan by Sherry Thomas

by Bubbly Bibbly | Dec 2, 2020 | Book Review, Historical Fiction, YA

Summary: All her life, Mulan has trained for one purpose: to win the duel that every generation in her family must fight. If she prevails, she can reunite a pair of priceless heirloom swords separated decades earlier, and avenge her father, who was paralyzed in his...

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab

by Bubbly Bibbly | Dec 2, 2020 | Book Review, Fantasy

Summary: France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across...

A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons

by Bubbly Bibbly | Nov 19, 2020 | Book Review, Literary Fiction

Summary: When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was 20 and he was 40. She was the daughter of Carolina gentry. He was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. They didn’t fall in love so much as they simply found each other...

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

by Bubbly Bibbly | Nov 18, 2020 | Book Review, Literary Fiction

Summary: At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate...