Happy 2016, lovely readers! It's a new year! I hope you all survived the holidays with a minimum of stress and a maximum of peace and relaxation. We had a very quiet Christmas and New Year’s Eve but after the extended stress of finding a home in Seattle and then bringing that home into the 21st century, it was welcome. In the same spirit of remodeling and updating you may have ... Read More...
Favorite Debut Books of 2015
Apparently, I'm throwing out all the rules and fourteen favorites wasn’t enough for 2015! I'm a rebel, like that. Actually, I’m as surprised as you might be, but when I started looking back at my favorites and saw how many of them were debut authors I decided they needed a post of their own. I hadn't thought about it, but I read a lot of debut authors. A lot of GREAT debut ... Read More...
Favorite Books of 2015
This year has been a reading rollercoaster—exciting highs mixed with ho-hum lows. No sooner was I soaring from some fantastic piece of fiction than I was shutting a book after 100 pages because ‘life is too short’ to keep reading something that isn’t holding my interest or is poorly written. Now, as it comes to a close, I’ve corralled the reading I love into lists. Today is ... Read More...
A Holiday Story
I’m not sure if I’ve done this before at The Gilmore Guide but I’m going to break from books and share something personal—a holiday story. This year feels more fraught with negativity than any I can remember in a long time. And not in my little life but in the country and world at large. There is so much noise and so little of it is positive. This is my Christmas past, ... Read More...
Black Chalk
There are many games to be played in college but none quite like the one designed by Jolyon and his friend Chad in Christopher Yates’s debut novel Black Chalk. The novel, just like the Game itself, begins with innocuous pieces to lure you in—Chad, the shy American determined to make the friends in England that he could not make at home; Jolyon, the funny British boy who ... Read More...
Give a Book!
It’s that time of year when most of us are feeling pulled in even more directions than usual. Work+family+holidays= overload. Too much to do and not enough time to do it so, in the spirit of giving, I’m going to give you, my favorite readers, the perfect excuse to grab a warm beverage and sit back for a moment. If anyone asks, you’re working on gift ideas (nudge nudge, wink ... Read More...
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