Bianca Marais Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/bianca-marais/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Wed, 04 Jan 2023 22:06:31 +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 Bianca Marais Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/bianca-marais/ 32 32 38398750 2022 Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/01/2022-wrap-up/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/01/2022-wrap-up/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2023 08:56:42 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17195 I started 2023 strong with The Light Pirate, a book I found riveting, but before I go full bore into the year, I need to wrap up 2022 as I read a lot more books (180 to be exact) and never reviewed some of them. I’m also going to do something I’ve never done before: […]

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