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10 Best Christmas-Themed Books and Holiday Reads

The holidays are a great time to catch up on reading, ideally with a cup of hot chocolate in hand. (If you’ve never made real hot chocolate — i.e. hot chocolate made from blended/whisked milk and melted chocolate, not just cocoa mix — it’s worth doing at least once! Do it as a treat for …

15 Inspiring Gifts for Women and Girls

Welcome to Part I of The 2018 Book Lover’s Holiday Gift Guide! I knew the first gift guide I wanted to do was for all the great inspirational stuff about awesome women that’s been cropping up. Let’s face it, this has been a tough couple of years. A lot of progress has been made, it’s …

Bookish Wrap-up

Happy Spooktober, Bibliophiles! Hope everyone is enjoying their scary, Halloween-themed reads. I haven’t settled on a perfect Halloween-ish book yet (maybe Practical Magic?), but I’ve been watching Castle Rock (the Stephen King TV adaptation) which has been okay. Anyway, here’s what new: New from The Bibliofile If you’re needing some ideas, here’s a list of …

Book Cover Face-off 2018 Edition

In writing this blog, I really wanted to focus on coming up with thoughtful or insightful content about books … usually. This is not one of those posts. Today, we’re here to judge books by their cover! Yay! More specifically, I thought it’d be fun to pit the United States versions of book covers against …

A Bookish Haiku

Do you ever feel this way or am I just overdramatic? P.S. The Illustrated Bibliofile is a feature I’ll be testing out to see if it’s something I want to do on a consistent basis. Hope you like it, and if so, please come visit the Bibliofile again! :)