G.P. Putnam's Sons Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/g-p-putnams-sons/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sat, 13 Sep 2025 17:32:22 +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 G.P. Putnam's Sons Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/g-p-putnams-sons/ 32 32 38398750 Spy novels: Mini-reviews https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/09/spy-novels-mini-reviews/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/09/spy-novels-mini-reviews/#respond Thu, 11 Sep 2025 23:00:28 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19309 Given that thrillers have been such fabulous reading for me lately, I thought it was worth sharing two more this week. Author Alma Katsu worked in the world of U.S. intelligence at the CIA and NSA for 29 years imbuing her Red Widow series with an authenticity that makes both novels, Red Widow and Red […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/09/spy-novels-mini-reviews/feed/ 0 19309 Is She Really Going Out With Him? https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/04/is-she-really-going-out-with-him/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/04/is-she-really-going-out-with-him/#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2025 07:12:01 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19104 Because we’re all still recovering from any number of financial upheavals, be it taxes or the stock market I’m sticking with easy reading that pays off. Is She Really Going Out With Him? has a very similar premise to Monday’s book—a single woman at a media company forced out of her professional comfort zone in […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/04/is-she-really-going-out-with-him/feed/ 4 19104 Kate & Frida: A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/03/kate-frida-a-novel-of-friendship-food-and-books/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/03/kate-frida-a-novel-of-friendship-food-and-books/#comments Mon, 24 Mar 2025 07:17:55 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19046 It begins with a letter sent from Paris to Seattle. Nothing romantic or between friends, but business because in 1991 that’s how these things were done. Frida writes to the Puget Sound Book Store looking for a book. Kate is the employee delegated with filling this customer request. Neither could know that this brief correspondence […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/03/kate-frida-a-novel-of-friendship-food-and-books/feed/ 2 19046 January Reading Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/01/january-reading-wrap-up-8/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/01/january-reading-wrap-up-8/#comments Fri, 31 Jan 2025 08:28:54 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18942 Wrap-up is the perfect word for this January. One, it is COLD here in Seattle. Flannel sheets cold which makes for cozy reading. Two, for the first time in a very long time a month has felt like it lasted a year. I went from my normal head shake over “where did this month go” […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/01/january-reading-wrap-up-8/feed/ 11 18942 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/2024/12/more-2024-reading-i-loved/feed/ 4 18881 The Best Lies by David Ellis https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/11/the-best-lies-by-david-ellis/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/11/the-best-lies-by-david-ellis/#respond Wed, 13 Nov 2024 08:57:52 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18784 A crusading lawyer, a former cop, and an FBI agent looking to make his mark all come together like gasoline and a match in David Ellis’ new novel, The Best Lies. Leo is a lawyer working to bring a sex trafficker to justice, but his case falls apart when his client, who’d been enslaved as […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/11/the-best-lies-by-david-ellis/feed/ 0 18784 A Wild and Heavenly Place https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/10/a-wild-and-heavenly-place/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/10/a-wild-and-heavenly-place/#respond Mon, 28 Oct 2024 07:58:10 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18735 A Wild and Heavenly Place by Robin Oliveira begins in 1870s Glasgow where orphaned, teenage Samuel, is living hand-to-mouth working in a shipyard and taking care of his little sister. He’s in love with Hailey, a wealthy girl he admires from afar. Until circumstances throw them together and they begin to fall in love, only […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/10/a-wild-and-heavenly-place/feed/ 0 18735 Summer Reading Mini-Review https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/06/summer-reading-mini-review/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/06/summer-reading-mini-review/#comments Fri, 21 Jun 2024 07:39:10 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18510 I’ve had such good reading recently that I feel bit a bit bad ending this week on a negative note. At the same time, I’m not one to mince my words so while I love light-hearted, fun reading, especially in the summer, these two books fell far short of success for me.   Patrick, the […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/06/summer-reading-mini-review/feed/ 1 18510 Capote’s Women by Laurence Leamer https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/04/capotes-women-by-laurence-leamer/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/04/capotes-women-by-laurence-leamer/#respond Thu, 25 Apr 2024 07:53:25 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18377 After all the agita of getting taxes filed on time, I needed a reward. Overindulging in champagne was my first choice, but not a healthy option so I turned to reading that gave me the same light, fizzy feeling and required no thought to enjoy. The book is Laurence Leamer’s Capote’s Women: A True Story […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/04/capotes-women-by-laurence-leamer/feed/ 0 18377 Those We Thought We Knew https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/12/those-we-thought-we-knew/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/12/those-we-thought-we-knew/#respond Fri, 15 Dec 2023 08:34:23 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18076 The residents of Jackson, a quiet county in the North Carolina mountains, are happy believing racism is largely in their past. Until that is, reality intervenes in David Joy’s new novel, Those We Thought We Knew. Joy uses the perspectives of three local characters: two white law enforcement officers and one Black woman to strip […]

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