Crown Publishing Group (NY) Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/crown-publishing-group-ny/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Tue, 09 Jul 2024 21:28:00 +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 Crown Publishing Group (NY) Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/crown-publishing-group-ny/ 32 32 38398750 All the Colors of the Dark https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/07/all-the-colors-of-the-dark/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/07/all-the-colors-of-the-dark/#comments Wed, 10 Jul 2024 07:13:48 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18546 When 13-year-old Patch sees a girl being abducted he acts without thinking and rushes the kidnapper. The girl escapes, but what follows changes Patch’s life and is the foundation for Chris Whitaker’s new novel All the Colors of the Dark. Patch and everyone he knows is changed by his heroic act in this opus saturated […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/07/all-the-colors-of-the-dark/feed/ 21 18546 November Reading Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/november-reading-wrap-up-4/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/november-reading-wrap-up-4/#comments Thu, 02 Dec 2021 05:47:48 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16300 Goodbye, November, hello, December! Did anyone else find November to be a rather placid month? It went a bit faster, but as I age I always think that. I just can’t remember anything extra good or bad that happened—which is great, right? My reading felt the same way as I bounced between thrillers and literary […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/november-reading-wrap-up-4/feed/ 11 16300 A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/12/a-very-punchable-face-by-colin-jost/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/12/a-very-punchable-face-by-colin-jost/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2020 05:43:44 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15098 If you’re a fan of Saturday Night Live then you’ll know the name Colin Jost. If not, he’s one of the anchors for Weekend Update and a very funny man. His memoir is called A Very Punchable Face and listening to it with him narrating, had me driving around aimlessly so I didn’t have to stop. […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/12/a-very-punchable-face-by-colin-jost/feed/ 6 15098 Recursion https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/12/recursion/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/12/recursion/#comments Mon, 16 Dec 2019 05:52:49 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13537 Blake Crouch’s new novel, Recursion, has left me stumped. In order to review a book, I need to be able, to some degree, to understand it and in this case I’m not sure I do. It’s about time travel and its impact. Sort of. Maybe. I think… It’s 2007 and Helena Smith is a neuroscientist […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/12/recursion/feed/ 8 13537 Summer Thrillers: Mini-Reviews https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/08/summer-thrillers-mini-reviews/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/08/summer-thrillers-mini-reviews/#comments Fri, 17 Aug 2018 07:42:32 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=11253 I haven’t given much thought to seasonal reading, but this summer I’ve read more thrillers than I have in years’ past. Maybe because they are more about plot and less about character and easier to digest? Who knows, but here are two summer releases I tore through. They’re on opposite sides of the drama scale- […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/08/summer-thrillers-mini-reviews/feed/ 4 11253 June Reading Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/06/june-reading-wrap-up/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/06/june-reading-wrap-up/#comments Fri, 29 Jun 2018 07:39:01 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=10870 Like a number of other bloggers I talked to, my reading fluctuated in June from really good to gave-up-on to meh. The good news is that I got to attend two great book events—Madeline Miller was here to discuss Circe (which is my favorite novel of the year so far) and Georgia Hunter gave a […]

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