Monthly Wrap Up

Hi everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. I have a confession to make. This month I didn’t finish any books. I did, however, pick up several, and I will talk here about what I am currently reading or why I didn’t finish some of those books. 1. NONFICTION AND MILITARY HISTORY: Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 This is the book I was reading when I posted by July Wrap Up last month, but ultimately decided to put it down for now. The reason: It is a one-volume account of World War II and it goes into every significant…

Hi everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today, I’m doing my July Wrap Up. This month was also rather slow, and I only finished three books, just like in June. I did, however, finish the longest book I’ve read this year thus far and that, I think, is a big achievement. Nonetheless, it feels like I haven’t finished a book in a very long time. Here are my thoughts on all three of them: 1. CLASSIC AND HISTORICAL FICTION: The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu is one of those books that…

Hi everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today, I’m doing my June Wrap Up. This month was rather slow compared to the previous two; I only finished three books. Here are my thoughts on all of them: 1. NONFICTION AND MYTHOLOGY: Troy by Stephen Fry Stephen Fry’s Great Mythology series is a retelling of Greek myths similar to Charlotte Higgins’ Greek Myths: A New Retelling, Edith Hamilton’s Mythology, Robert Graves’ The Greek Myths and Bulfinch’s Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch. Troy is the third book in this series (after Mythos and Heroes), and it focuses on the Trojan War. Some…

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…