Nonfiction

Hi everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. I apologize for posting this so late into December, but here it is. In November, I read four books and here are my thoughts on all of them. I will also be posting my End of the Year Wrap Up soon. 1. SCIENCE AND PREHISTORY: A Pocket History of Human Evolution by Silvana Condemi and François Savatier This is indeed a pocket history of human evolution. It is 154 pages long and it is roughly the size of a Paperwhite Kindle e-reader, so it is both short and small and can effectively…

Hi everyone. Welcome to Bibliophilia Book Review. Today I will be reviewing The Plantagenets by Dan Jones. This book relates 245 years of English history and warfare as the country transforms from an Anglo-Norman realm to one of the most powerful and sophisticated realms in Europe of the Middle Ages. However, the subtitle of this book is a little misgiving. There were only two queens in the entire period of English history that this book relates that can be said to have been significant players in the politics of their age; the first was Empress Maude, the mother of Henry…

Hello again everyone. Today I’m reviewing The Enduring Flame Trilogy as a whole by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory. There will be no individual book reviews posted for this second series of the Obsidian Universe. The Enduring Flame Trilogy was published in 2007-2009. Click here for more information on this series. General Thoughts I’ll begin this review by saying that I intentionally did not read this trilogy for the longest time. I thought about buying it several times and always decided against it, until I finally said, “Screw it,” and bought all three books on a whim. I had already…