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…
OCTOBER WRAP UP: What I Read This Month
Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. As a preview to this monthly wrap up, I would like to say thank you to Kindlepreneur for adding Bibliophilia Book Reviews to their table of top-notch book review blogs to reach out to. Their ultimate list of the best book review blogs can be found here, and I recommend anyone that is interested to check it out. There are so many of us wanting to read good books. In this post, I will be doing a wrap up of all the books I read in October. This month I read five…
SEPTEMBER 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 September. This month I read five books. It was a rather slow reading month I’ll admit, and unfortunately I did not like two of those five books. Here are my thoughts on all of them: 1. NONFICTION: Unmasked by Paul Holes This book is the memoir of the retired cold case investigator Paul Holes and his relentless search for the Golden State Killer. I enjoyed this book, and the chapters in which the author relates…
AUGUST 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 August. This month is probably the one in which I read the least amount of books that fulfill my monthly reading challenge. I only completed three prompts, and two books of the six that I read this month were rereads. Also, this is the only month of the year thus far in which I read more nonfiction books than fiction. 1. NONFICTION: The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England by Dan Jones…
BOOK REVIEW: The Plantagenets by Dan Jones
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…
BOOK REVIEW: Practical Magic by Alice Hoffmann
Hello everyone. Welcome to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I’m trying to catch up on my reviews and will be reviewing Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman. Visit the author’s website here. This review has minor spoilers. Practical Magic is one of those books that I wanted to love, because I watched the movie and loved it so much, but I just couldn’t. This book, unfortunately, was a miss for me. It is one of those rare cases where the movie is so much better than the book. Maybe it was that I couldn’t help comparing the protagonists in this book to…