Miriam Toews Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/miriam-toews/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Tue, 14 Dec 2021 19:50:33 +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 Miriam Toews Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/miriam-toews/ 32 32 38398750 2021 Underrated Gems https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/2021-underrated-gems/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/2021-underrated-gems/#comments Wed, 15 Dec 2021 05:46:44 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16323 Every year I read books I loved, but that seemed to go under-the-radar for most people. Yes, reading is a very personal endeavor and what is 5 stars for me may not be 5 stars for you, but I’ve got 7 underrated gems I read this year that I’m almost evangelical about—I loved them that […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/2021-underrated-gems/feed/ 10 16323 Fight Night: A Novel by Miriam Toews https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/10/fight-night-a-novel-by-miriam-toews/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/10/fight-night-a-novel-by-miriam-toews/#comments Mon, 04 Oct 2021 04:12:33 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16171 Sometimes when we fight…sometimes we’re not fighting in quite the right way…we need to adjust our game. But still, the main thing is that we’re fighting…your mom’s a fighter. We’re all fighters. Swiv comes from a family of fighters. At nine she’s suspended from school because King of the Castle is not a recess game […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/12/ten-best-books-of-2019/feed/ 11 13558 Women Talking: A Novel by Miriam Toews https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/04/women-talking-a-novel-by-miriam-toews/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/04/women-talking-a-novel-by-miriam-toews/#comments Mon, 01 Apr 2019 07:12:58 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12522 In the Mennonite community of Molotschna eight women gather in a barn to talk. Their meeting is a secret, made possible only because the men have gone into the city to bail out eight men who have been accused of a heinous crime: that of drugging and raping over 100 of the community’s women and […]

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