An Update On Reviewing Books And An Apology
Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. I would like to apologize to everyone who has sent me an email in the last year or two asking me for a review but to whom I have not been able to answer back yet. The reason is that I am still catching up on the books I received in exchange for a review in 2020-2021. And I admit it is going rather slow. I have precious little quiet time to read lately and I don’t see that changing for another bit, so please bear with me. I am not ignoring…
Mid-Year Book Freak Out Tag 2023
Hello. Welcome to Bibliophilia Book Reviews and in this post I will be doing the popular mid-year book freak out tag, originally published in 2012. I, however, will not talk about just one book per question but will include all the books I have read so far that fit that prompt. As of June 30th, 2023, I have read 31 books. Out of those 32 books, 9 have been nonfiction and 23 fiction books. In nonfiction, I have predominantly read history books while I have mostly read a combination of fantasy and classics in fiction. Here’s how my year has…
JUNE WRAP UP: What I Read This Month
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…
MAY WRAP UP: What I Read This Month
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,…
APRIL WRAP UP: What I Read This Month
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. This month was a rather slow month for me, to be honest and I didn’t get to read as many books as I would’ve liked to or finish all the books I wanted to read this month. In fact, I only completed two books in April. But this doesn’t mean that I didn’t read any more. I had two DNFs this month and I didn’t get to finish the last one (though I did…
MARCH WRAP UP: What I Read This Month
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 I only read 3 books because I finally completed War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, a book I started in January and which I’d been meaning to read since college. 1. NONFICTION: Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the 116 Days that Changed the World by Chris Wallace I read this book because I read Hiroshima by John Hersey in February and I wanted to know why the President of the United…
FEBRUARY WRAP UP: What I Read This Month
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…
BOOK REVIEW: Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelley Lytle Hernández
Hi everyone. Welcome to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I’m reviewing Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernández. This book was published on May 10th, 2022, and it is a nonfiction account of the events that occurred in Mexico and the United States leading up to the Mexican Revolution of 1910. These events can be summed up as follows: Miguel Hidalgo, Antonio López de Santa Anna, Benito Juárez, and, most prominently, Porfirio Díaz, all make an appearance in Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernández but the most important…
JANUARY WRAP UP: What I Read This Month
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….
END OF THE YEAR SERIES: Most Surprising Books of 2022
Hi everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. In this post, I will be talking about my most surprising books of 2022. Here goes: 1. Burial Rites by Hannah Kent This book is a fictional account of the last months in the life of Agnes Magnusdottir, the last person to be executed in Iceland. She was killed on January 12th, 1830, for the deaths of Natan Kettilson and Pétur Jónsson. Based on true events that happened in Northern Ireland more than a hundred years ago, this book relates the events leading up to the murders and how Agnes is housed…