Natalie Haynes Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/natalie-haynes/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Wed, 03 Jan 2024 23:41:42 +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 Natalie Haynes Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/natalie-haynes/ 32 32 38398750 My 8 Favorite Books of 2023 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/my-8-favorite-books-of-2023/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/my-8-favorite-books-of-2023/#comments Thu, 04 Jan 2024 08:20:54 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18102   Finally! Let’s talk reading again, specifically my favorite books of 2023 so we can move onto what lies ahead in 2024. It was an interesting year in that I don’t remember another time when I had this many 5-star nonfiction books. I’m not even sure I’ve ever read so much great nonfiction in one […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/my-8-favorite-books-of-2023/feed/ 12 18102 Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/02/stone-blind-by-natalie-haynes/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/02/stone-blind-by-natalie-haynes/#respond Tue, 07 Feb 2023 08:09:58 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17284 How wonderful to start the week with a book I loved so much I’m ready to read it again. Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes is her latest foray into the retelling of famous Greek myths from a female perspective. In this case it is the fearsome Medusa, known as one of the most terrifying monsters in […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/02/stone-blind-by-natalie-haynes/feed/ 0 17284 My 8 Best Books of 2021 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/my-8-best-books-of-2021/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/my-8-best-books-of-2021/#comments Mon, 27 Dec 2021 05:19:05 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16350   Best is a big word, especially these days when words that have been a part of the lexicon for lifetimes feel as if they’re losing their meaning. The first that comes to mind is “normal”. There is nothing normal about our weather, our politics, America.  There’s a COVID vaccine and a booster, but the […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/my-8-best-books-of-2021/feed/ 8 16350 A Thousand Ships: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/02/a-thousand-ships-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/02/a-thousand-ships-a-novel/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2021 05:38:26 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15402 Happy Monday! I don’t often say that because, well…Monday, but today I’m back with a novel that kept me captivated.  A Thousand Ships is Natalie Haynes’s retelling of the Trojan War or, more specifically, the immediate aftermath of the war. Not exactly new territory, as any number of writers have memorialized this greatest battle of Greek […]

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