Satire Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/genres/satire/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sun, 23 Apr 2023 19:07:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Satire Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/genres/satire/ 32 32 38398750 Riots I Have Known https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/05/riots-i-have-known/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/05/riots-i-have-known/#comments Mon, 20 May 2019 07:12:04 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12768 Sometimes a synopsis can come out of nowhere and make you pick up a book you never thought you would, but it’s a dicey proposition because marketing people are wily devils. Their entire purpose in life is to seduce. But it still doesn’t quite explain why I thought a novel about a Sri Lankan male […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/05/riots-i-have-known/feed/ 8 12768 Radiant Shimmering Light https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/01/radiant-shimmering-light/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/01/radiant-shimmering-light/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2019 08:09:20 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12040 Lilian is trying to live her best life, but utilizing her ability to see animals’ auras while painting pet portraits is not working out. She can’t even earn enough to pay the rent on her Toronto apartment. She feels stymied and trapped so when her cousin Eleven (formerly Florence) Novak invites her to New York […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/01/radiant-shimmering-light/feed/ 1 12040 The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/05/the-favorite-sister/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/05/the-favorite-sister/#comments Wed, 16 May 2018 07:25:38 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=10634 There is a book for every mood and sometimes, your subconscious knows what you need better than your thinking mind. I had no idea how hungry I was for flat-out over-the-top drama until I finished Jessica Knoll’s newest novel, The Favorite Sister. I was drawn to the book by its premise—a reality TV show about […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/05/the-favorite-sister/feed/ 6 10634 Fitness Junkie: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/07/fitness-junkie-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/07/fitness-junkie-a-novel/#comments Mon, 17 Jul 2017 07:39:41 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=9050   There are many things that make being a booklover wonderful, but one that makes me positively giddy is when a book finds me when I need it most. That feeling of a book that knows what you need and provides it. No point in prolonging the suspense, I’m talking about Lucy Sykes and Jo Piazza’s new […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/05/rich-people-problems/feed/ 16 8733 Fake Plastic Love https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/05/fake-plastic-love/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/05/fake-plastic-love/#comments Thu, 18 May 2017 07:55:43 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=8719   After almost five years of writing about books I kind of thought I’d seen it all. Not literally or in every way, but I firmly believed that plot and prose were inextricably intertwined. The best prose couldn’t save a bad plot and vice versa. Today I have to back off that belief because I […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/05/fake-plastic-love/feed/ 3 8719 Startup: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/04/startup-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/04/startup-a-novel/#comments Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:52:55 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=8644   If your goal in writing a novel is to start conversation than Doree Shafrir succeeds in Startup. On the surface the novel is a quick-read satiric look at the young tech industry springing up in NYC, but underneath, business is the least of the issues Shafrir explores. At the center of the novel is […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/04/startup-a-novel/feed/ 5 8644 Break in Case of Emergency https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/07/break-in-case-emergency/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/07/break-in-case-emergency/#comments Sun, 17 Jul 2016 07:21:10 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=6795   Poor Jen. She was an artist while in college, but gave up after school and got a communications job at a non-profit. Which then hit hard times and laid her off. Now she’s at a new foundation started by Leora Infinitas (that’s not a typo on my part), a former sitcom star who achieved […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/07/break-in-case-emergency/feed/ 4 6795 The Sellout: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/03/the-sellout-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/03/the-sellout-a-novel/#comments Mon, 28 Mar 2016 07:34:46 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=6136 How do you review a book when you’re not quite certain that you should or even that you should have been allowed to read it? This was the question in my mind after finishing Paul Beatty’s The Sellout.  The novel is set in a ghetto outside Los Angeles called Dickens and is about a young […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/03/the-sellout-a-novel/feed/ 10 6136 The Stager by Susan Coll https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/07/the-stager-by-susan-coll/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/07/the-stager-by-susan-coll/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2015 07:39:43 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=4227 Given that we’re still in the midst of our home remodel I thought it appropriate to re-publish this review The Stager, a book I loved from 2014. It’s just been released in paperback and is a hilarious satire about the world of home staging and so much more. This time last year we were still looking […]

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