Marie Benedict Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/marie-benedict/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sun, 01 Mar 2026 22:32:32 +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 Marie Benedict Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/marie-benedict/ 32 32 38398750 Daughter of Egypt https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/03/daughter-of-egypt/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/03/daughter-of-egypt/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:23:42 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19537 Two young women, separated by thousands of years, stand at the center of Marie Benedict’s new novel, Daughter of Egypt. One is the daughter of a wealthy English lord in post-WWI England while the other is a pharaoh’s daughter in ancient Egypt. Only one has a life predestined by the gods, but both will have […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/03/daughter-of-egypt/feed/ 0 19537 The Personal Librarian: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/07/the-personal-librarian-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/07/the-personal-librarian-a-novel/#comments Fri, 16 Jul 2021 04:30:20 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15931 It’s no secret that novels about books, book stores, libraries, or librarians are my kryptonite. I love them and can’t resist them, despite the fact that my success with them is mixed at best. So, it was with some trepidation that I decided to read The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Murray. I […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/07/the-personal-librarian-a-novel/feed/ 6 15931 Midwinter Doldrums: Mini-Reviews https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/02/midwinter-doldrums-mini-reviews/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/02/midwinter-doldrums-mini-reviews/#comments Fri, 07 Feb 2020 05:44:48 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13797 On Wednesday we officially hit the midwinter mark. Hurray! I’m halfway through my first Midwestern winter and it’s not so bad. Of course, by saying that I’m just asking for trouble. Unfortunately, while the weather has been cooperating, my reading has not. I’ve finished a number of books I discussed on my episode of Sarah’s […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/02/midwinter-doldrums-mini-reviews/feed/ 4 13797 The Only Woman in the Room https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/01/the-only-woman-in-the-room/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/01/the-only-woman-in-the-room/#comments Fri, 18 Jan 2019 08:29:38 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12133 For those of you who aren’t old movie buffs…why not?! Old black and white movies with all their stylized glamour are one of the best escapes out there. But I digress. If you’re not aware of Hollywood in the 1930s then you won’t recognize the subject of Marie Benedict’s new novel The Only Woman in […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/01/the-only-woman-in-the-room/feed/ 17 12133 April Reading Recap https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/04/april-reading-recap-2/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/04/april-reading-recap-2/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2018 07:27:35 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=10549 Don’t faint, but I’m not going to complain about my reading this month! Nope. Suffice it to say, April was a month of more highs than lows. It was also one for the record books. I read more non-fiction this month than I have all year. Thanks to super recommendations from bloggers I trust and the Seattle […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/04/april-reading-recap-2/feed/ 2 10549 The Other Einstein https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/10/the-other-einstein/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/10/the-other-einstein/#comments Wed, 19 Oct 2016 07:29:55 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=7211 Much is known about Albert Einstein, from his theory of relativity to his philosophical musings on peace, logic and the universe. There is less known about his first wife, Mileva Marić, but Marie Benedict opens the door to her life and her marriage to Einstein in her new novel, The Other Einstein. Mileva was Serbian […]

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