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…
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. This month I read 8 books and DNF’d 1. This month I started to read books that I usually don’t read very much in the first place giving my reading tastes a little bit more diversity. One of these types of books is reading a book in Spanish. The books I choose for this prompt are originally published in this language (no translations here, but there’s an idea for a new prompt), but the…
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. As a friendly reminder, every month I try to read at least one book that fits into one of the following prompts: Library Book, Nonfiction, Book of the Month (BOTM), Classic, A Requested Review, a book that Starts a Series and one that Finishes a Series. And in April, I added New Release. I am realistic and know that I will not complete all of these prompts every month. But I do try. And…
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 was a rather slow reading month for me, and unfortunately I didn’t get to read as many books as I was hoping. It is going to be, then, a rather short wrap up this time around. But I did complete a series and read a couple of books that I really liked. Let’s begin: 1. Ravencaller by David Dalglish This book is the second installment of The Keepers trilogy by this author,…
BOOK REVIEW: The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I’m reviewing The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood. Now, I know that I haven’t been posting a lot of reviews lately, but I am slowly trying to get back into it. Life simply tends to get in the way sometimes. SPOILER ALERT: This review has spoilers, so please read at your own discretion. Or if you have not read or finished the book yet, please don’t read at all. Trigger warning for death of a parent and sexual harrassment. Okay. So… I don’t know why, but contemporary romance isn’t doing it…
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 I completed more prompts for my reading challenge than last month, however I still didn’t finish it. No matter. The point with this reading challenge is to read books that I wouldn’t have read otherwise, not to finish all eight prompts before the end of the month, and I’m accomplishing that. I read some really good books this month, and I am looking forward to talking about each one. I read 10…