The Gilmore Guide to Books

Vigil by George Saunders

Catherine — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:48:58 +0000

In Vigil by George Saunders Jill is an angel who helps the dying transition into death. Her latest assignment is K.J. Boone, a Texan oilman. Jill’s purpose is to comfort but also to give the person an opportunity to repent, but Boone wants none of that. He has nothing to be sorry for and is […]

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Saoirse by Charleen Hurtobise

Catherine — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:35:16 +0000

A teenage girl in fear for her life steals both money and a passport to get out of the U.S. and into Ireland in the 1990s. This is the beginning of the novel Saoirse, but it’s nowhere near the beginning of the life of Sarah, the main character. That unspools slowly throughout the book as […]

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Two Kinds of Stranger

Catherine — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:17:35 +0000

Plot has been my friend for months now so turning to a thriller in a series I’ve loved is no big surprise. Yes, Eddie Flynn, the former grifter turned lawyer is back in Steve Cavanagh’s book, Two Kinds of Stranger. This time he’s representing an Instagram influencer accused of murdering her husband and his mistress, […]

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Family of Spies

Catherine — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 07:40:35 +0000

Here we are nearing the end of March and this is my first nonfiction review. That’s a pretty good summation of my 2026 nonfiction reading so far. I’m staying as far away from reality as possible. However, when I saw Family of Spies by Christine Kuehn at the library it looked intriguing enough that I […]

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Neverworld Wake: A Novel

Catherine — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:22:06 +0000

Beatrice returns from her college freshman year still haunted by the death of her boyfriend senior year. His loss fractured the close-knit popular group they’d been a part of, but when one of them has a party and invites Bea she hopes by seeing the group again she can get the closure she so desperately […]

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Lady Tremaine

Catherine — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:57:44 +0000

The wicked stepmother has been a mainstay in fiction since before the Brothers Grimm became grim. No fairy tale was complete without one, but the one in Cinderella was particularly vicious and cruel. So easy to hate. Maybe too easy? Author Rachel Hochhauser decides to remedy that in her novel, Lady Tremaine. This is not […]

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Battle of the Titans: Mini-Reviews

Catherine — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 08:35:51 +0000

No battle and no giants here. Instead, I’ve got quick reviews of two chunkster books I read this fall. Chunkster being the technical term for big-ass, over 500 pages each, tomes. Both are set in prehistoric times and are the kind of books you’ll either settle into or set aside. I’ve read a lot […]

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More Than Enough by Anna Quindlen

Catherine — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:03:27 +0000

Open Anna Quindlen’s new novel More Than Enough and you’ll meet Polly, a happy middle-aged woman. Her husband adores her and she him, she’s an English teacher at all girls’ school, and she has three stalwart, loving friends. Friends who give her a DNA test kit as a gag gift. When there’s a match for […]

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Daughter of Egypt

Catherine — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:23:42 +0000

Two young women, separated by thousands of years, stand at the center of Marie Benedict’s new novel, Daughter of Egypt. One is the daughter of a wealthy English lord in post-WWI England while the other is a pharaoh’s daughter in ancient Egypt. Only one has a life predestined by the gods, but both will have […]

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Good People by Pameena Sabit

Catherine — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:02:41 +0000

When the Sharaf family emigrated from Afghanistan to the United States in the 1980s they were met by an Afghan community that understood not only the terrors of war they’d escaped, but the hardships they would face in building a new life in a foreign country. They were welcomed and aided in their early years […]

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