Monthly Wrap Up

Hi everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today, I’m doing my May Wrap Up. This month I finished 9 books, quite a lot more than I was expecting honestly. And I read more romance too. Shocking, I know. Here are my thoughts on these books. 1. FANTASY AND MYSTERY: Age of Assassins by R.J. Barker This is the first book of The Wounded Kingdom trilogy and the second book I pick up by this author. In fact, it doesn’t seem like this book and The Bone Ships, also by R.J. Barker, were written by the same person at all….

Hi everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today, I’m doing my April Wrap Up and this month I finished 8 books and DNF’d 2. Here are my thoughts on all of them. Please bear with me, it’s a bit of a long one.   1. CLASSIC AND MAGIC REALISM: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov I picked this book up for one of my book clubs, and I admit I had never heard of it before. It is also not a book that I would typically associate with Russian literature because it is so unlike Crime and Punishment…

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. In this post, I will be doing a wrap up of all the books I read in March. This month has been a surprisingly productive reading month for me; I was able to read 9 books. I think the most I have read in a month is 11, but 9 is still a very good number. Here are my thoughts on all of them. 1. FANTASY AND YOUNG ADULT: Fireborne by Rosaria Munda I picked this book up back in January 2021 when it first came out and several people on YouTube…

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. In this post, I will be doing a wrap up of all the books I read in February. 1. HISTORICAL FICTION: The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn I first read this book as a new release in April 2022, and it was one of the best books I read that year. Two years later, when I picked it up again for one of my book clubs, this book is still one of my favorites. Set in 1942, The Diamond Eye is a fictional account of the life of Lyudmila Pavilchenko, a university…

Hello. Welcome to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I will be reviewing all the books I read in January. This month I only read 4 books. Here are my thoughts on all of them. 1. FANTASY AND LGBTQ+: He Who Drowned The World by Shelley Parker-Chan This is the second book in The Radiant Emperor duology by this author, and I liked it but I had some issues with it. First, the positives. The writing is superb and it is very easy to pick this book up right after finishing the first. Also, the story shifts a little and we don’t…

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. In this post, I will be doing a wrap up of all the books I read in December. 1. FANTASY AND LGBTQ+: She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan I first read this book in October 2021 and decided to pick it up again when I bought the second book in the duology a few months ago. Back then, it was a surprising read for me and I included it in my list of the best books I read that year. In my October Wrap Up of 2021 I said, and…

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. In this post, I will be doing a wrap up of all the books I read in November. Since July, I’ve slowed so much in my reading that I don’t think I’ll complete my reading challenge this year. But this month I finished 9 books. Also I have read more classics in 2023 than I did in 2022, and that’s because classics are the type of books I gravitate to when I need to relax. And you’ll notice that 6 out of the 9 books I read in November are classics. This…

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. In this post, I will be doing a wrap up of all the books I read in October. This month I read 3 books. Here are my thoughts on all of them: 1. FICTION: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Two of the most important topics in this book are individuality and identity. More specifically, the individuality and identity of African Americans living in a dominant white society that does not recognize their personhood.  Set in the early 20th century, I think that this book is just as relevant today as it was…

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. In this post, I will be doing a wrap up of all the books I read in September. This month I read 5 books and I DNF’d 1, so here goes: 1. BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR: Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939 by Volker Ullrich Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939 is the first book of a two-volume biography of Adolf Hitler, “indisputably the most studied, infamous, and reviled person ever to live.” Unlike The Hitler Years written by Frank McDonough, a historical account of Hitler’s rise to power and eventual downfall from 1933 to 1945 that I read earlier this…

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. In this post, I will be doing a wrap up of all the books I read in August. This month I only read 2 books, so here goes: 1. FANTASY: Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch This book is a procedural fantasy novel set in London whose protagonist is a probationary constable/recently recruited wizard caught in the middle of two different cases: the supernatural death of William Skirmish and a feud between Mama Thames and Father Thames (hence the title of the book). Tasked to solve both of them by his superior,…