Aimee Bender Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/aimee-bender/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Wed, 29 Jul 2020 18:25:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Aimee Bender Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/aimee-bender/ 32 32 38398750 July Reading Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/07/july-reading-wrap-up-3/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/07/july-reading-wrap-up-3/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2020 04:16:48 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=14643   Goodbye, July! My first full month of real summer in the Midwest. What I loved: fireflies, thunder and rain storms that last for hours. What is not so much: humidity that flattens me but makes my hair explode. And flies. So many flies! Why? The natural world aside, even with the increasing crazy that […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/07/july-reading-wrap-up-3/feed/ 2 14643 8 Beautiful Backlist Books to Read Now https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/04/8-beautiful-backlist-books-to-read-now/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/04/8-beautiful-backlist-books-to-read-now/#comments Mon, 13 Apr 2020 04:10:37 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=14166 After a little digression on Friday, it’s back to books! Reading may be your escape during quarantine, but for many the economic issues caused by the pandemic means buying the newest releases isn’t a great idea. So, today I’ve got eight beautiful backlist books I read and loved years ago. Several I’ve never talked about […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/04/8-beautiful-backlist-books-to-read-now/feed/ 2 14166 The Color Master https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/09/color-master/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/09/color-master/#comments Wed, 25 Sep 2013 07:26:21 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=2150   Aimee Bender’s The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake is one of my favorite books. Her combination of magical and realism makes for poetic, moving reading. Last month her newest book of short stories, The Color Master, came out, and it shimmers with its ability to be both fantastical and utterly human. In “The Doctor and […]

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