JULY 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 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….
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….