Book Clubs

This month the prompt is to read a book from an author that is not from your country. The book I chose is “The Iron King” by Maurice Druon.

Hey everyone, I’m a bit late with this post this month. But here it is. The prompt for the month of April for this book club is to read a book from the 19th Century, so I chose “La Regenta” by Leopoldo Alas “Clarín”. I first read this book in college, but I wanted to pick it up again now that I have also read Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy and Emma Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. After, I want to write a post comparing all three novels.

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. It is time to pick the next book for my Fantasy Reads 2026 book club. This month the prompt is to read a book with multiple POVs, so I picked The Shadow of the Gods by John Gywnne.

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Clásicos y más. It is time to pick the book for March. This month the prompt is to read an epistolary novel so I chose the following two short novels: Esta noche moriré by Fernando Marías and Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela by Elena Poniatowska.

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 back to my Fantasy Reads 2026 book club. In February, we’re reading a book that has been on my TBR for a long time. I chose Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson. This book has been on my shelves for years because I didn’t have the best experience reading Mistborn several years ago. In fact, I DNF’d that series. Let’s hope that this year, things go a little better with Sanderson. I did learn recently though that mass market paperbacks like this one are being discontinued.