Celadon Books Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/celadon-books/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:46:39 +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 Celadon Books Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/celadon-books/ 32 32 38398750 Saoirse by Charleen Hurtobise https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/04/saoirse-by-charleen-hurtobise/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/04/saoirse-by-charleen-hurtobise/#respond Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:35:16 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19593 A teenage girl in fear for her life steals both money and a passport to get out of the U.S. and into Ireland in the 1990s. This is the beginning of the novel Saoirse, but it’s nowhere near the beginning of the life of Sarah, the main character. That unspools slowly throughout the book as […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/04/saoirse-by-charleen-hurtobise/feed/ 0 19593 Family of Spies https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/03/family-of-spies/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/03/family-of-spies/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2026 07:40:35 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19572 Here we are nearing the end of March and this is my first nonfiction review. That’s a pretty good summation of my 2026 nonfiction reading so far. I’m staying as far away from reality as possible. However, when I saw Family of Spies by Christine Kuehn at the library it looked intriguing enough that I […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/03/family-of-spies/feed/ 4 19572 Best Offer Wins https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/02/best-offer-wins/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/02/best-offer-wins/#respond Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:32:48 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19521 For anyone who’s purchased a house in a competitive market the subject of Marisa Kashino’s novel Best Offer Wins won’t come as a surprise: the lengths a buyer will go to win the house of their dreams. Think buying a home is just about paying the price the owners are asking for it? Then you’ve […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/02/best-offer-wins/feed/ 0 19521 May Reading Recap https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/05/may-reading-recap-7/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/05/may-reading-recap-7/#comments Fri, 30 May 2025 07:22:06 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19151 May turned into quite a month for my reading and beyond. There’s plenty to share, but for now, I’ll stick with some of the books that stuck with me (and a couple that missed the mark).   Daniel is a criminal profiler who works finding serial killers. He’s chosen this line of work because he’s […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/05/may-reading-recap-7/feed/ 8 19151 Penitence: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/02/penitence-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/02/penitence-a-novel/#respond Mon, 03 Feb 2025 08:17:33 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18960 When Penitence begins 13-year-old Nora is alone in a jail cell after turning herself in for killing her 14-year-old brother. An opening like this has the heft to carry a traditional thriller/mystery whether as a police procedural (solving the crime) or a courtroom drama (Nora on trial). Instead, debut author Kristin Koval forges a completely […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/02/penitence-a-novel/feed/ 0 18960 The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/11/the-sequel-by-jean-hanff-korelitz/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/11/the-sequel-by-jean-hanff-korelitz/#respond Mon, 18 Nov 2024 08:16:00 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18792 More devious, delicious, escape reading! The Sequel is just that, the sequel to Jean Hanff Korelitz’s novel The Plot. Anna Williams-Bonner is the widow of critically acclaimed author Jacob Bonner. Only she’s not happy about her husband’s success as his novel cuts a bit too close to her own life. She’s aggrieved by this as […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/11/the-sequel-by-jean-hanff-korelitz/feed/ 0 18792 March Reading Recap https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/04/march-reading-recap-7/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/04/march-reading-recap-7/#comments Mon, 01 Apr 2024 07:53:02 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18330 My March reading is a wrap, but I have a question: would you rather have highs and lows in your reading or a steady diet of good? You can probably guess where I’m going with this. I ended the month on a streak of 3.5 star books, most of which I can hardly remember reading. […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/04/march-reading-recap-7/feed/ 12 18330 The Fury by Alex Michaelides https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/02/the-fury-by-alex-michaelides/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/02/the-fury-by-alex-michaelides/#comments Fri, 16 Feb 2024 08:21:05 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18230 When actress Lana Farrar finds her mood dragged down by London’s dreary weather she does what any of us would, invites her friends for a weekend away on her private Greek island. All right, probably not what we would do, but Alex Michaelides needed a remote backdrop for his new novel, The Fury and what’s […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/02/the-fury-by-alex-michaelides/feed/ 13 18230 June Reading Recap https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/06/june-reading-recap-2/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/06/june-reading-recap-2/#comments Fri, 30 Jun 2023 07:38:33 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17684 This June recap is a little special. Monday, July 3rd, is my mother’s 85th birthday and I want to give her the biggest shout-out I can because aside from being a wonderful mother, this blog, the podcast, my career as a librarian, none of it would have happened without her passion for books. She’s the […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/06/june-reading-recap-2/feed/ 4 17684 The Angel Maker by Alex North https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/03/the-angel-maker-by-alex-north/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/03/the-angel-maker-by-alex-north/#comments Fri, 03 Mar 2023 08:09:39 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17320 Anyone else dealing with blah reading recently? I don’t know whether it’s the joy (not!) of dealing with tax prep, but I’ve DNFed two of the last 3 books I started. So, I thought it necessary to wrap up the week with the one book I could not turn away from. If you need reading […]

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