Book Clubs

Introduction John Gwynne is the author of the popular epic fantasy series’ The Faithful and The Fallen, Of Blood and Bone, and The Bloodsworn Saga. Malice, the author’s debut novel and the first book of The Faithful and The Fallen won the David Gemmell Morningstar Award for Best Fantasy Debut in 2012, while the other three novels of the series, Valour, Ruin, and Wrath, were all shortlisted for the David Gemmell Legend Award for Best Fantasy Novels of 2014, 2015 and 2016, while Wrath won the BookNest Awards for Best Traditionally Published Novel in 2017. The Bloodsworn Saga, the author’s…

Introduction Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela (Dear Diego) by Elena Poniatowska is a short novel (less than 100 pages) written as a series of letters from Russian painter Angelina (Quiela) Beloff to her (then) partner Diego Rivera. At the beginning of the novel, Diego has returned to Mexico after living in Paris for 10 years, where he painted in a cubist style. However, disillusioned with the Parisian art scene, he returns to Mexico “driven by a desire to participate in the government-sponsored mural program and create public art after the Mexican Revolution. With this project, the new Mexican postrevolutionary government…

Introduction Esta noche moriré (Tonight, I will die) by Fernando Marías is a short novel originally published in 1992. The edition I read, published by Alrevés Editorial to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the first edition in this collection (1996), includes a theatrical monologue based on this novel and adapted by Vanessa Montfort. Fernando Marías was a Spanish author (born in Bilbao, Biscay) whose debut novel La luz prodigiosa (The End of a Mystery) in 1990 won the Ciudad de Barbastro Award in Spain and was adapted to film in 2003. In this novel, a former mechanic suspects that a…

Introduction Warbreaker is an epic fantasy novel by Brandon Sanderson published in 2009. Today, Sanderson is one of the most prolific fantasy writers in the US. He is a very popular and very much-loved author, whose books have garnered a huge fanbase throughout the years. Sanderson also features in innumerable must-read fantasy lists on the Internet and his name is prominent in fantasy genre fiction. His books are slowly becoming classics in the genre. There is even a Wiki website (Coppemind.net/wiki/Coppermind:Welcome) and several podcasts dedicated to Brandon Sanderson’s universe and books (for example, The Sanderlanche Podcast). Warbreaker is a standalone…

Hi everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. It is time to review my book club pick for February: The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto by Mario Vargas Llosa. Thank you for stopping by. Introduction Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto (The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto) is a novel by the Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, first published in 1997. It is the sequel to Elogio de la madrastra (In Praise of the Stepmother), published in 1988. Elogio de la madrastra (In Praise of the Stepmother) is the story of how the conjugal bliss and happiness of don Rigoberto and his second…

Hi everyone. Welcome to my blog and to Fantasy Reads 2026. For January, I picked Of Darkness and Light, the second installment of The Bound and The Broken series by Ryan Cahill. Hope you can join me in this adventure. And Happy Reading!

Hi everyone. Welcome to my blog and to Clásicos y más. In this post I am letting you know the book I picked for the month of January. The prompt says we need to read a book of short stories so I picked “Doce cuentos peregrinos” by Gabriel García Márquez. Hope you join me!

Interested in reading with me this year? If so, I am starting two new book clubs in January that you are welcome to join me in. The first, Clásicos y más, is focused on reading books written and published in Spanish and the second is focused on reading more fantasy novels. I have not been reading much fantasy lately, and this year I want to get back into it. I will be running both book clubs through the Fable App and you are welcome to join me there. The links for each book club are: Clásicos y más: https://fable.co/club/clasicos-y-mas-with-melina-546324212374 Fantasy…