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. 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,…

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. I know I am a little behind on my monthly wrap-ups, but July and August have both been very slow reading months for me. Life got in the way and I am only just now trying to catch up. Also, I tried to read very long books these past two months and that has prevented me from reading as many books as I usually do. So this is going to be a short one….

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. 1. MEDICINE AND HEALTH: Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Medicine Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick by Maya Dusenbery Maya Dusenbery ends her book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Medicine Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick with the following words: “Listen to women. Trust us when we say we’re sick. Start there, and you’ll find we have a lot of knowledge to share.” To…

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 I read five novels, less than my monthly average, I know, but still. I think I did pretty good, considering that one of those novels is 900 pages long. Here’s what I think about all of them: 1.CLASSIC: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Dubbed the greatest novel ever written and Dostoyevsky’s masterpiece, the entire 900 pages of The Brothers Karamazov is a prelude to a second novel about Dostoevsky’s main character’s,…