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Balance

January 2, 2024

Hello again, kittens. It’s 2024 and I'm back with a word for the year ahead: Balance. For anyone worrying about me or the blog, thank you for your concern…neither of us is going anywhere. I’ve already financially committed to the blog through November 2025 so let’s just get through 2024. As for me, I’ll keep it simple: my multiple sclerosis is changing. I’ve been very ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Feature Tagged: life, thoughts

The Year Ends

December 22, 2023

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  Happy holidays, everyone! As we race towards the end of 2023 I’ve realized I need to take a break and reset so I won’t be posting again until next year. This year has been more challenging than expected with my health so I need to adjust my routine and schedule, meaning there are likely to be changes to The Gilmore Guide to Books. I’m just not sure what that means so ... Read More...

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November Reading Wrap-Up

December 1, 2023

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  It’s odd to say, but for the most part November felt like a normal month. So, either I’m acclimating to chaos or my memory has blanked out the month. What I do know is that it was a Wild West rodeo for my reading. There was the fun of getting to read whatever I felt like and the not-so-fun inability to settle down into books I’d expected to love. Instead I was ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature Tagged: fantasy, horror, mini-reviews

October Reading

October 31, 2023

October

October, what a month. So much chaos in the world and the U.S. and none of it is positive. For your sakes, I’ll stick with books here. Suffice it to say, all the madness in the world in the last two weeks of the month left me with the attention span of a gnat  so I have fewer low rated books and more I didn’t finish. But even with that, there were some real standouts this ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature Tagged: fantasy, literary, mini-reviews

Buying Books and Feeling Good About It

October 7, 2023

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On Wednesday I shared a 5-star memoir about a woman who worked as an executive at Amazon for over a decade. I knew, even as I was making my disdain for Amazon clear in my review (it’s a horrible company and Bezos a walking Napoleon complex in an interminable midlife crisis), that I was on shaky ground for anyone who’s been reading The Gilmore Guide to Books regularly. Under ... Read More...

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August Reading Wrap-Up

September 8, 2023

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August has followed  summer out the door, but the weather was as lovely as the majority of my reading, with more highs than lows. The first week of September is about to end so I thought I ought to check in with what worked and what didn’t before I head into all the new fall releases.   The Postcard is historical fiction based on a real family history that encompasses ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature Tagged: biography, historical fiction, mini-reviews, thriller

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