Meg Wolitzer Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/meg-wolitzer/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Tue, 10 Jul 2018 01:55:05 +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 Meg Wolitzer Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/meg-wolitzer/ 32 32 38398750 The Female Persuasion https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/04/female-persuasion/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/04/female-persuasion/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2018 07:54:05 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=10522 There has been a lot written about Meg Wolitzer’s new novel, The Female Persuasion. The novel will resonate with an entire generation of women who, after joining the workforce, longed for a mentor to guide them. For Greer Kadetsky, an intensely shy college student, that woman is Faith Frank, a feminist icon. Except, Greer didn’t […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/04/female-persuasion/feed/ 9 10522 November Reading Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/12/november-reading-wrap-up/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/12/november-reading-wrap-up/#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2016 08:57:03 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=7480   Apparently, I’m determined to ignore all kinds of guidelines this week. First, I posted my reading habits two days late and only now am I going to attempt a November reading recap. Suffice it to say it was a hell of a month. I know for some people out there the election was a non-event, […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/12/november-reading-wrap-up/feed/ 6 7480 Belzhar: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/10/belzhar/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/10/belzhar/#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2014 07:53:20 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=3295   Imagine a small boarding school for “fragile” teens in rural Vermont and within that school an exclusive English class to which only 4 or 5 students are handpicked to join. With this Meg Wolitzer makes her debut in YA fiction. Having read and loved The Interestings, her last adult novel, I knew I had […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/10/belzhar/feed/ 8 3295 The Interestings https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/04/the-interestings/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/04/the-interestings/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2013 07:10:30 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=1534   At a summer camp called Spirit-in-the-Woods, a group of six teens is brought together. For five it is a return to a paradise they’ve known in past summers but for Julie Jacobson, a scholarship student, it is a trip to a new world, far from her dreary prosaic life in a small town. Spirit-in-the-Woods […]

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