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…
END OF THE YEAR SERIES: Favorite Books of 2022
Hi, everyone. Welcome to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. In this post, I will be talking about my favorite books of 2022. Here goes: 1. The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd This book is the story of women during the time when Jesus lived. More specifically, the women whose stories got lost in history because there is no one to tell them. It is more common for men to tell the story of other men, whilst women are cursed by oblivion. So Ana, Jesus’s wife, tries to be the one to tell those stories; stories that, as Ana buries her…
END OF THE YEAR SERIES: Most Disappointing Books of 2022, Part II
Hi everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. In this post I will continue my End Of The Year Series with the second part of my most disappointing books of 2022. Let’s begin: 12. A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong I am avid reader of mythology and history. Combine the two, and it is probably a book that I will read. When I read this book several years ago, I really liked it. But this time, I found that it was too biased on Mesopotamian and Hebrew mythology (not that I have anything against Mesopotamian and Hebrew mythology,…
DECEMBER 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 December. This month is probably one of the few months of the year in which I managed to read 8 books. Unfortunately, not all were to my liking. Here goes: 1. NONFICTION: The Dark Queens by Shelley Puhak This book recounts the lives and feud of two Merovingian queens who reigned their respective kingdoms (in what today is France) during the Middle Ages. The first is Brunhild, who was queen of Austrasia for 46 years,…
END OF THE YEAR SERIES: Most Disappointing Books of 2022
Hello everyone. Welcome to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. In this post, I will be giving a list of my most disappointing reads of 2022. I do not mean to say, however, that these books are bad. Some are very popular and much loved by other readers, and I think that’s awesome. But, for some reason, I could not love these books as much as they did, even though I tried and wanted to. Here is the list. Again, these books are in no particular order and some I no longer own. So some of the pictures shown here are not mine….
END OF THE YEAR SERIES: Books I DNF’d This Year, Part II
Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. This post will be Part II of the books I DNF’d in 2022. This year, love was definitely not in the air as most of these books are romance. Two of these books are even winners of a Goodreads Choice Award in romance (2018 and 2021, respectively), but they just didn’t deliver for me. Again, since I no longer own some of these books, some of the pictures that I post here are not mine. Hence, I will give credit where credit is due. 1. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion I…
END OF THE YEAR SERIES: Books I DNF’d This Year, Part I
Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. In this post I will be giving a list of the books I DNF’d in 2022. This is the first post of my End of The Year Series and it has the first 10 books I did not finish this year, and 2 fantasy series that I will no longer continue. Disclaimer: Given that I no longer own most of these books, some of the pictures that I post here are not mine. Hence, I will give credit where credit is due. Also, these books are in no particular order. Let’s get…
NOVEMBER 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 November. This month I read more nonfiction books than fiction, and it is perhaps the one month in the entire year thus far where the books I read do not fulfill most (if any) of the prompts in my reading challenge. However, they were all very interesting reads. 1. CLASSIC: The Lost Stradivarius by J. Meade Falkner This is a short novel first published in 1895, and it has been deemed a “classic tale of…