Colson Whitehead Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/colson-whitehead/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Wed, 29 Sep 2021 19:52:56 +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 Colson Whitehead Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/colson-whitehead/ 32 32 38398750 September Reading Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/09/september-reading-wrap-up-4/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/09/september-reading-wrap-up-4/#comments Thu, 30 Sep 2021 04:54:53 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16147 What an odd month September has been. Traditionally, it’s the biggest month of the year in the publishing world, with all the big important books coming out. But while there were still buzzy books released this month, I had very little success with most of them. I’m relatively certain this is due to events in […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/09/september-reading-wrap-up-4/feed/ 12 16147 The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/the-nickel-boys-by-colson-whitehead/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/the-nickel-boys-by-colson-whitehead/#comments Wed, 17 Jul 2019 07:51:18 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12976 Thanks to his strict grandmother, Elwood Curtis is the kind of young man anyone would be proud of. He’s smart, honest, and dependable. He is a devoted follower of Martin Luther King, listening to a record of his speeches until he knows them by heart. After he graduates from high school he has the chance […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/the-nickel-boys-by-colson-whitehead/feed/ 6 12976 The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/12/underground-railroad-colson-whitehead/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/12/underground-railroad-colson-whitehead/#comments Wed, 06 Dec 2017 08:26:31 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=9732 I wasn’t planning on making this my week of impressive, but painful, tragic books but here we are. Reading Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad  is like watching 12 Years a Slave—both are extremely important, but neither are entertaining or enjoyable. They’re too real for that. Cora is a slave who decides to escape from the brutal […]

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