Monthly Wrap Up

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 despite it being almost time for my March Wrap Up. Sorry about that. I read 8 books in February. Here’s what I think about each one of them. 1. HISTORICAL FICTION: The Alice Network by Kate Quinn This is the third book I have read by this author and I really liked it. The protagonist, Charlie St. Clair, is a young American college girl on her way to Europe to get an abortion. But…

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 January. This year I am changing my reading challenge a little bit to diversify my reading habits even more. A lot of the books I read last year had no prompt at all (26%), and the genres that I read the most were fantasy (25%) and nonfiction (26%). So this year, I am adding some prompts to focus more on the genres I am reading, but I am also eliminating others, like the BOTM prompt….

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. This month is probably one of the few months of the year in which I managed to read 8 books. Unfortunately, not all were to my liking. Here goes: 1. NONFICTION: The Dark Queens by Shelley Puhak This book recounts the lives and feud of two Merovingian queens who reigned their respective kingdoms (in what today is France) during the Middle Ages. The first is Brunhild, who was queen of Austrasia for 46 years,…

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. This month I read more nonfiction books than fiction, and it is perhaps the one month in the entire year thus far where the books I read do not fulfill most (if any) of the prompts in my reading challenge. However, they were all very interesting reads. 1. CLASSIC: The Lost Stradivarius by J. Meade Falkner This is a short novel first published in 1895, and it has been deemed a “classic tale of…

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. As a preview to this monthly wrap up, I would like to say thank you to Kindlepreneur for adding Bibliophilia Book Reviews to their table of top-notch book review blogs to reach out to. Their ultimate list of the best book review blogs can be found here, and I recommend anyone that is interested to check it out. There are so many of us wanting to read good books. In this post, I will be doing a wrap up of all the books I read in October. This month I read five…

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 five books. It was a rather slow reading month I’ll admit, and unfortunately I did not like two of those five books. Here are my thoughts on all of them: 1. NONFICTION: Unmasked by Paul Holes This book is the memoir of the retired cold case investigator Paul Holes and his relentless search for the Golden State Killer. I enjoyed this book, and the chapters in which the author relates…

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 is probably the one in which I read the least amount of books that fulfill my monthly reading challenge. I only completed three prompts, and two books of the six that I read this month were rereads. Also, this is the only month of the year thus far in which I read more nonfiction books than fiction. 1. NONFICTION: The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England by Dan Jones…

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 July. This month I read 8 books and DNF’d 1. This month I started to read books that I usually don’t read very much in the first place giving my reading tastes a little bit more diversity. One of these types of books is reading a book in Spanish. The books I choose for this prompt are originally published in this language (no translations here, but there’s an idea for a new prompt), but the…

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 June. As a friendly reminder, every month I try to read at least one book that fits into one of the following prompts: Library Book, Nonfiction, Book of the Month (BOTM), Classic, A Requested Review, a book that Starts a Series and one that Finishes a Series. And in April, I added New Release. I am realistic and know that I will not complete all of these prompts every month. But I do try. 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 May. This month was a rather slow reading month for me, and unfortunately I didn’t get to read as many books as I was hoping. It is going to be, then, a rather short wrap up this time around. But I did complete a series and read a couple of books that I really liked. Let’s begin: 1. Ravencaller  by David Dalglish This book is the second installment of The Keepers trilogy by this author,…