Abbi Waxman Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/abbi-waxman/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Thu, 23 May 2024 20:31:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Abbi Waxman Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/abbi-waxman/ 32 32 38398750 Christa Comes Out of Her Shell https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/05/christa-comes-out-of-her-shell/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/05/christa-comes-out-of-her-shell/#comments Fri, 24 May 2024 07:13:19 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18446 Christa is a scientist who studies snails on a small isolated island. She’s perfectly happy with a life free from people thanks to a childhood spent in the spotlight. Her father was a world-famous naturalist with his own wildly popular TV show, but his plane crashed in the Alaskan wilderness when she was 2-years-old. Her […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/05/christa-comes-out-of-her-shell/feed/ 2 18446 Last Bit of Summer: Mini-Reviews https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/08/last-bit-of-summer-mini-reviews-2/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/08/last-bit-of-summer-mini-reviews-2/#respond Mon, 29 Aug 2022 04:14:30 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16912 And by last I really mean LAST. Two more days left in August and then it’s September. But doesn’t everyone count Labor Day weekend as summer? I’m going to, even as ready as I am for this summer to be over. Thankfully, my end-of-August reading has been outstanding. More about that later, but today I’ve […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/08/last-bit-of-summer-mini-reviews-2/feed/ 0 16912 November Reading Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/november-reading-wrap-up-4/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/november-reading-wrap-up-4/#comments Thu, 02 Dec 2021 05:47:48 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16300 Goodbye, November, hello, December! Did anyone else find November to be a rather placid month? It went a bit faster, but as I age I always think that. I just can’t remember anything extra good or bad that happened—which is great, right? My reading felt the same way as I bounced between thrillers and literary […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/08/other-peoples-houses/feed/ 4 15998 Backlist Beauties: Mini-Reviews https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/10/backlist-beauties-mini-reviews/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/10/backlist-beauties-mini-reviews/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2020 04:11:23 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15002 Last week I was supposed to start reading another fall new release novel. It’s even one I’m looking forward to, Ken Follett’s The Evening and the Morning, but the thought of 900 pages made my brain hurt. It’s a sad truth—my attention span lately has shrunk to an amount of time easily measured by counting […]

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