Hello everyone! Welcome to Bibliophilia Book Reviews…again. My name is Melina, and I am a bibliophile, a lover of books, a bibliophage, an ardent reader and a bibliotaph. I hoard books. I am all things biblio. In this blog, I review books of different genres including literary fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, fantasy, YA, and others. Please feel free to turn the page and look around. Hopefully, one of my reviews will help you decide to pick up a book or not. If you’re interested in a review for your published book, please click here to get on my wish list. Happy…
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. 1. FANTASY AND LGBTQ+: She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan I first read this book in October 2021 and decided to pick it up again when I bought the second book in the duology a few months ago. Back then, it was a surprising read for me and I included it in my list of the best books I read that year. In my October Wrap Up of 2021 I said, and…
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. Since July, I’ve slowed so much in my reading that I don’t think I’ll complete my reading challenge this year. But this month I finished 9 books. Also I have read more classics in 2023 than I did in 2022, and that’s because classics are the type of books I gravitate to when I need to relax. And you’ll notice that 6 out of the 9 books I read in November are classics. This…
OCTOBER 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 October. This month I read 3 books. Here are my thoughts on all of them: 1. FICTION: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Two of the most important topics in this book are individuality and identity. More specifically, the individuality and identity of African Americans living in a dominant white society that does not recognize their personhood. Set in the early 20th century, I think that this book is just as relevant today as it was…
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 5 books and I DNF’d 1, so here goes: 1. BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR: Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939 by Volker Ullrich Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939 is the first book of a two-volume biography of Adolf Hitler, “indisputably the most studied, infamous, and reviled person ever to live.” Unlike The Hitler Years written by Frank McDonough, a historical account of Hitler’s rise to power and eventual downfall from 1933 to 1945 that I read earlier this…
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 I only read 2 books, so here goes: 1. FANTASY: Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch This book is a procedural fantasy novel set in London whose protagonist is a probationary constable/recently recruited wizard caught in the middle of two different cases: the supernatural death of William Skirmish and a feud between Mama Thames and Father Thames (hence the title of the book). Tasked to solve both of them by his superior,…
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,…