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 January. This new year though I want to try something a little different with my wrap ups. I am still going to list how many books I read in the month I am wrapping up and provide a synopsis for each one of them, but this time I want some of those books to be part of a reading challenge I set up for myself this year so that my reading includes various types of…

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 2021. These reviews have minor spoilers. 1. The Woman In The White Kimono by Ana Johns I Really Liked this book, but there were a few things that affected my overall experience reading it. First off, the narrator of the audiobook is the same one that read The Oyster Thief by Sonia Faruqi and we all know how much I loved that (read my review here). I do not mean to say that 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 November 2021. These reviews have minor spoilers. 1. Augustus by Anthony Everitt This book is a biography of Augustus, the first Emperor of Rome. Forced to take center stage in Roman politics at a young age, Augustus’s rise to power culminated when he defeated Marc Anthony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium. Later, he consolidated his power by transforming Rome into the greatest empire of the world. I enjoy reading about the lives of…

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 2021. This month I read Alice Hoffman’s Practical Magic series in addition to a couple more books that I really enjoyed. These reviews have minor spoilers. 1. The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffmann This book is the first of two prequels to Alice Hoffmann’s bestseller novel Practical Magic, first published in 1995. I read this book for the first time in January 2021, and I admit that I liked it more the second…

Hello everyone. Belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. In this post, I will be doing a wrap up of all the books I read in September 2021. I confess I have a little catching up to do again, but September was one of my slowest reading months of last year. I think I was in a little bit of a reading slump honestly. Still, I managed to read five books that month, and some of those books are new favorites. In the next few weeks (more than a few,…

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. These reviews have spoilers: 1. The Pagan Lord by Bernard Cornwell This is the seventh installment of The Saxon Stories and Uhtred has been living in relative peace for at least 8 years in Fagranforda. He is still Aethelflaed’s man and is in charge of keeping Edward’s ‘bastard’ son, Aethelstan, alive. Uthred’s children also start taking a more prominent role both in his life and in the political intrigues between the kingdoms of Britain….

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. These reviews have spoilers: 1. The Pale Horseman by Bernard Cornwell This month I continued on with Bernard Cornwell’s The Saxon Stories with the second installment of this series. In this book, Uthred loses King Alfred’s favor after the battle of Cynuit and decides to go Viking by raiding Cornwalum, where he meets the shadow queen Iseult and takes her as his lover. Upon his return to Wessex, however, Alfred condemns Uthred to death…

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. These reviews have spoilers: This month has been my most productive reading month, and with the exception of The Lies of Locke Lamora, a month where I only read books written by female authors. So without further ado… 1. The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch In May I went back to fantasy and read this book for my book club, and I must admit it took me a while to even start…

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 April. These reviews have spoilers: 1. Written in Bone by Sue Black This is the second book that I read from this author, and I absolutely loved it. Easily one of my favorite books this year, Written in Bone is a map of the human body that the author travels through, from head to feet, to relate her experiences in solving murder cases where the forensic evidence of a specific part of the body was…