Best and Worst Book of the Month

Hi everyone. Today, I’ll be talking about the best and worst books I read in March. This month, however, I’m doing things a little different. Given that I don’t have a specific book that I disliked this month, I am ranking the books I did like from worst to best. Disclaimer: I will not include the memoir I read in this list. I will, however, add the 3 books I DNF’d this month. The first is the one I didn’t like the most: 10. Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys by Mariana Enriquez (DNF) I wanted to…

Hi everyone. Today, I’ll be talking about the best and worst books I read in February. 1.WORST BOOK OF THE MONTH: Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto (The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto)by Mario Vargas Llosa I picked this book up as my romance read for the month of February in one of my book clubs. It is not a HEA romance though. I didn’t like any of the characters, and though the main characters were deeply in love, they were also unlikeable. They are terrible people. Granted, Vargas Llosa’s use of ecphrasis is superb in this novel and as a whole it…

Hi everyone. Today, I’ll be talking about the best and worst books I read in January. This month, I also DNF’d two books. Both of them, unfortunately, were fantasy books. 1. WORST BOOK OF THE MONTH:  A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr Frankly, I thought I was going to love this book but I did not. A Month in the Country is “set in the aftermath of World War I and follows a war veteran’s summer of restoration – both of a medieval church painting and of his own shattered spirit. It is a ‘tale of survival and healing’…

Hi everyone. Today, I’ll be talking about the best and worst books I read in December. I know this post is a bit late, but it is here now. 1. WORST BOOK OF THE MONTH:  The Russian Doll by Kristen Loesch This book is a historical fiction romance with a twinge of mystery that takes place from the Russian Revolution to the end of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. The story focuses on “an epic love story” that affects the lives of three generations of Russian women, Rosie, Katya, and Tonya, whose narratives are all interconnected by Russian fairy…

Hi everyone. Today, I’ll be talking about the best and worst books I read in November. Here are my thoughts on both of them: 1. WORST BOOK OF THE MONTH:  The Fox Wife by Yangzse Choo This book had the potential of becoming my favorite read of the month. But then, the author included a small mystery subplot into the story and it all went downhill from there. As you know, I have a love/hate relationship with the mystery/thriller genre. I read a lot of historical mysteries but I cannot seem to finish (or be able to finish) those that…

Hi everyone. Today, I’ll be talking about the best and worst books I read in October. I know this post is a little later than usual, but here are my thoughts on the two books that earned the badge of my best and worst reads of the month: 1. WORST BOOK OF THE MONTH:  You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue The premise of this book is that the clash between the Mexica and the Spanish conquistadors was more a cultural shock than a military confrontation between them. The Spanish, for their part, were out of their element in a…

Hi everyone. Today, I’ll be talking about the best and worst books I read in September. In this post, I talk about 5 books, two of which I already in my monthly wrap up. However, I talk about why these books made it to my best, worst, and DNF lists. Here goes: 1. WORST BOOK OF THE MONTH:  The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas I didn’t like this book because D’Artagnan, Athos, Aramis, and Porthos are not likeable characters. They’re ultimately vigilantes who perform justice by their own hand. Every crime they commit, which includes murder and rape, is disguised…

Hi everyone. Welcome back to my Best and Worst Reads of the month posts.  In August, I read 3 books and DNF’d 1; I talk about that DNF here. I did finish, however, a series this month. Unfortunately, I didn’t like how it ended much. Also, I have already talked about these books in my monthly wrap up so I won’t go into too much detail here. Let’s start: 1. WORST BOOK OF THE MONTH:  A Reaper At The Gates by Sabaa Tahir A Reaper At The Gates is the third book of The Ember Quartet by this author. Each…

Hi everyone. Welcome back to my Best and Worst Reads of the month posts.  I read 5 books in July and in this post I will talk both about my favorite book of the month and my lowest rated book that I read this month. Note that this time I am not talking about a book I didn’t like, it is just the book that I rated the lowest; nonetheless, I still liked it. I will start with the best book I read in July.  1. BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH: The Land of Open Graves by Jason de León…

Hi everyone. Welcome back to my Best and Worst Reads of the month posts.  This month I read 7 books and DNF’d 1, and I will talk about that DNF’d book here. I will start though with the best book I read this month.  1. BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH: Animal Farm by George Orwell Animal Farm by George Orwell is a masterpiece. It is a “classic tale of totalitarianism and propaganda, using a barnyard setting to illustrate the principles of power and control” (Erik Hill Reviews); an allegory that explores the dangers of political propaganda and the manipulation of…