End of the Year

Hello everyone. Welcome to Bibliophilia Book Reviews and today I’m going to be talking about my End of the Year Series posts for 2023. In 2022, I divided these into four posts where I talked about my favorite books of the year, the most disappointing books I read, the books I DNF’d and finally the most surprising books of 2022. This year, however, is going to be a little different. This is due to the fact that I didn’t read as many books in 2023 as I did in 2022 and that I did my Mid-Year Book Freak Out Tag…

Hi everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. In this post, I will be talking about my most surprising books of 2022. Here goes: 1. Burial Rites by Hannah Kent This book is a fictional account of the last months in the life of Agnes Magnusdottir, the last person to be executed in Iceland. She was killed on January 12th, 1830, for the deaths of Natan Kettilson and Pétur Jónsson. Based on true events that happened in Northern Ireland more than a hundred years ago, this book relates the events leading up to the murders and how Agnes is housed…

Hi, everyone. Welcome to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. In this post, I will be talking about my favorite books of 2022. Here goes: 1. The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd This book is the story of women during the time when Jesus lived. More specifically, the women whose stories got lost in history because there is no one to tell them. It is more common for men to tell the story of other men, whilst women are cursed by oblivion. So Ana, Jesus’s wife, tries to be the one to tell those stories; stories that, as Ana buries her…

Hi everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. In this post I will continue my End Of The Year Series with the second part of my most disappointing books of 2022. Let’s begin: 12. A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong I am avid reader of mythology and history. Combine the two, and it is probably a book that I will read. When I read this book several years ago, I really liked it. But this time, I found that it was too biased on Mesopotamian and Hebrew mythology (not that I have anything against Mesopotamian and Hebrew mythology,…

Hello everyone. Welcome to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. In this post, I will be giving a list of my most disappointing reads of 2022. I do not mean to say, however, that these books are bad. Some are very popular and much loved by other readers, and I think that’s awesome. But, for some reason, I could not love these books as much as they did, even though I tried and wanted to. Here is the list. Again, these books are in no particular order and some I no longer own. So some of the pictures shown here are not mine….

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. This post will be Part II of the books I DNF’d in 2022. This year, love was definitely not in the air as most of these books are romance. Two of these books are even winners of a Goodreads Choice Award in romance (2018 and 2021, respectively), but they just didn’t deliver for me. Again, since I no longer own some of these books, some of the pictures that I post here are not mine. Hence, I will give credit where credit is due. 1. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion I…

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. In this post I will be giving a list of the books I DNF’d in 2022. This is the first post of my End of The Year Series and it has the first 10 books I did not finish this year, and 2 fantasy series that I will no longer continue. Disclaimer: Given that I no longer own most of these books, some of the pictures that I post here are not mine. Hence, I will give credit where credit is due. Also, these books are in no particular order. Let’s get…

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I will mention five popular books that I read in 2020 that I did not like very much. I know that this post is a little different from my usual book review posts, but I wanted to start a series of posts here where I get to mention books that I have read in the last 4-5 years before I started this blog. It is a lot of them, and there is no way that I’ll be able to post a review for each of them in the next few months….