Crown Publishing Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/crown-publishing/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sun, 29 Dec 2024 22:44:00 +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 Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/crown-publishing/ 32 32 38398750 More 2024 Reading I Loved https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/more-2024-reading-i-loved/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/more-2024-reading-i-loved/#comments Mon, 30 Dec 2024 08:54:27 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18881 I’m back with more books I loved in 2024. On Friday I shared the fact that almost all my 5-star favorite books for the year were backlist, but I still wanted to give a shoutout to this wide variety of new releases I thought were wonderful. Each provided me with the escape I wanted in […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/11/bear-by-julia-phillips/feed/ 2 18806 The Curse of the Marquis de Sade https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/04/the-curse-of-the-marquis-de-sade/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/04/the-curse-of-the-marquis-de-sade/#respond Wed, 05 Apr 2023 07:53:48 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17433 If you’re a bibliophile, then you know the love of collecting books is highly personal. What is a treasure for some might be trash for others. This meant I was conflicted when deciding to read The Curse of the Marquis de Sade. I have no interest in erotic fiction nor did I particularly care about […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/04/the-curse-of-the-marquis-de-sade/feed/ 0 17433 A Knock at Midnight https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/09/a-knock-at-midnight/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/09/a-knock-at-midnight/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2020 04:25:48 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=14806 If nothing else, 2020 has been my year of more “I had no idea” reading than any other in my adult life. I’ve read fiction and nonfiction on a number of issues for years, but somehow race was never a large part of that reading. Now, like many others in this country, I’ve seen just […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/09/a-knock-at-midnight/feed/ 4 14806 Normal People by Sally Rooney https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/04/normal-people-by-sally-rooney/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/04/normal-people-by-sally-rooney/#comments Mon, 15 Apr 2019 07:08:42 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12547 Marianne and Connell live very different lives in the same small Irish town. She has a wealthy family and a big house, but is an outcast at their school, while he is everyone’s best friend, a natural athlete, a good student. His mother cleans her family’s mansion, so he comes over every afternoon to pick […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/04/normal-people-by-sally-rooney/feed/ 7 12547 July Reading Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/08/july-reading-wrap-up/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/08/july-reading-wrap-up/#comments Wed, 01 Aug 2018 07:58:45 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=11019 Oh boy, summer hit Seattle with a vengeance in July. I know for many other parts of the country temperatures in the high 80s are no big deal, but for those of us living in a region where air conditioning is not a thing in a most houses it got pretty wretched. In fact, I’ll […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/08/july-reading-wrap-up/feed/ 10 11019 Great Summer Reading: The Windfall https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/06/great-summer-reading-the-windfall/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/06/great-summer-reading-the-windfall/#comments Mon, 26 Jun 2017 07:51:03 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=8875 The first month of summer is wrapping up so before things get too far along I have a week’s worth of great books to share. Each one makes for perfect summer reading!   It is every entrepreneur’s dream to have their creation sell for a boatload of money. For Mr. Jha the dream comes true […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/06/great-summer-reading-the-windfall/feed/ 9 8875 Something Wicked This Way Comes: Mini-Reviews https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/05/something-wicked-this-way-comes/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/05/something-wicked-this-way-comes/#comments Wed, 24 May 2017 07:04:36 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=8741   In a surprising bit of synchronicity, I read two great novels recently that both referenced Shakespeare—which is why the quote from Macbeth for this post’s title. Also, because there is a lot of wicked in both these novels. In New Boy, Tracy Chevalier adapts the very grown-up themes of Othello to 1970s elementary school. […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/05/something-wicked-this-way-comes/feed/ 8 8741 The Shore: A Novel by Sara Taylor https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/02/the-shore-a-novel-by-sara-taylor/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/02/the-shore-a-novel-by-sara-taylor/#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2017 08:29:14 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=8383   The Shore by Sara Taylor may qualify as one of the most unusually formatted books I’ve read in a long time. Take a family tree composed of over fifty members, stretching from the 1850s to 2143. Close your eyes, throw a dart at the tree and wherever it land–that’s a chapter.  So, even though […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/02/the-shore-a-novel-by-sara-taylor/feed/ 12 8383 The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/07/tsar-love-techno-anthony-marra/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/07/tsar-love-techno-anthony-marra/#comments Wed, 20 Jul 2016 07:55:43 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=6804 I could not pass up the opportunity to share the love again for a book that I adored. I’m not a big short story reader, but Marra connects the dots so well that The Tsar of Love and Techno reads like an abstract art of a novel. It comes out in paperback tomorrow so if you missed […]

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