Best and Worst Book of the Month

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today, I’ll be ranking the books I read in July. Sorry for the late post, but here it is. Unfortunately, I did not read a new favorite this month: 4. El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (No One Writes to the Coronel) by Gabriel García Márquez I have read several books by this author this year, but this one is the one I have liked the least. The main themes of this book are hope, dignity, and the weariness of waiting for something that is never going to arrive. I appreciate…

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today, I’ll be ranking the books I read in June. This month I DNF’d 1 book. Here’s my list: 9. Aeneid by Virgil (DNF) Yeah, I really tried with this one. And I made it to the 45-50% mark, but I just couldn’t read the rest. I was bored out of my mind. And it’s not that I don’t like this book. I’ve read it before (in college). It’s just that I wasn’t in the right moment in my life to read it again. 8. Myths of Geography: Eight Ways We Get…

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today, I’ll be ranking the books I read in May. This month has been my slowest reading month of the year so far, but I did DNF some books. Here’s my list: 6. Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto (DNF) How do you deal with loneliness when you’re stuck in a place you don’t want to be at? I wanted to like this book, but I couldn’t. The protagonist, Don Diego de Zama, is a Spanish colonial officer stuck in a stagnant post in Paraguay. He is waiting for a missive from the…

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today, I’ll be ranking the books I read in April from worst to best book of the month. As before, the list will enumerate the books I didn’t finish first. Also, this month was a little all over the place as I tried to catch up with books that I didn’t get to read in March but was still interested in, most of them nonfiction. So, there’s a lot more of those this month. However, I did read some fiction books too and I include those in a second list of worst…

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…