Caroline Leavitt Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/caroline-leavitt/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Thu, 02 May 2024 19:42:08 +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 Caroline Leavitt Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/caroline-leavitt/ 32 32 38398750 Cruel Beautiful World https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/10/cruel-beautiful-world/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/10/cruel-beautiful-world/#comments Wed, 26 Oct 2016 07:57:43 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=7249   Sometimes a book’s marketing can end up working against it. I found this to be the case with Caroline Leavitt’s Cruel Beautiful World. The synopsis and various blurbs referenced the Manson murders—a real piece of clickbait and yet, aside from being set in the summer of 1969 and the main protagonist’s worry about being […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/10/cruel-beautiful-world/feed/ 6 7249 Is This Tomorrow https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/05/is-this-tomorrow/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/05/is-this-tomorrow/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 07:56:33 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=1636 In 1956 there was plenty to worry about- the Communists and nuclear missiles, but missing children were an anomaly. In Waltham, Massachusetts, the setting for Is This Tomorrow, people didn’t even lock their doors and children moved from one house to another, playing and eating snacks until the call home for dinner. When twelve-year-old Jimmy […]

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