Patrick Radden Keefe Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/patrick-radden-keefe/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Thu, 01 Sep 2022 21:43:39 +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 Patrick Radden Keefe Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/patrick-radden-keefe/ 32 32 38398750 August Reading Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/09/august-reading-wrap-up-6/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/09/august-reading-wrap-up-6/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2022 04:15:50 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16928 Goodbye to August and to summer 2022. I’m not going to rehash what chaos it was in the Gilmore household, but 2,200 miles later we’re settling back into Seattle. Even better, my August reading ended up being really strong—in quality if not quantity. Out of the 13 books I read, 7 were 4 stars or […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/09/august-reading-wrap-up-6/feed/ 1 16928 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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