Hogarth Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/hogarth/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Fri, 22 Nov 2024 00:57:21 +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 Hogarth Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/hogarth/ 32 32 38398750 Bear by Julia Phillips https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/11/bear-by-julia-phillips/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/11/bear-by-julia-phillips/#comments Fri, 22 Nov 2024 08:28:49 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18806 Small, character driven novels have not been good reading for me recently so I was surprised to be drawn into Bear. Somehow, author Julia Phillips makes the unexpected presence of a large bear in the lives of two downtrodden women magnetic. Elena and Sam are sisters living on an island off the Washington State coast. […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/11/bear-by-julia-phillips/feed/ 2 18806 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 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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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/07/tsar-love-techno-anthony-marra/feed/ 7 6804 DNF: The Dreaded Did-Not-Finish https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/03/dnf-dreaded-did-not-finish/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/03/dnf-dreaded-did-not-finish/#comments Fri, 18 Mar 2016 07:38:56 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=5813 Much like the political noise that is sweeping our country right now there is a topic in the bookish world that tends to split itself into party lines. For some it is something they are proud of and shout from the rooftops. For others it is a personal failure and something they’d rather not talk […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/03/dnf-dreaded-did-not-finish/feed/ 22 5813 The Tsar of Love and Techno https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/03/tsar-love-techno/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/03/tsar-love-techno/#comments Mon, 07 Mar 2016 08:23:41 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=6044   For art to be the chisel that breaks the marble inside us, the artist must first become the hammer.    The Tsar of Love and Techno begins in 1937 Leningrad with a nameless censor. A man whose artistic skill is such that his sole purpose is to erase people deemed to be enemies of […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/03/tsar-love-techno/feed/ 13 6044 Hunters in the Dark https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/01/hunters-in-the-dark/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/01/hunters-in-the-dark/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2016 08:34:21 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=5748   Lawrence Osborne was a travel journalist and currently lives in Bangkok, but his latest novel Hunters in the Dark is not one that will inspire readers to head to Southeast Asia. Instead, it has a Heart of Darkness feel—where the language spoken by the natives is not one that can ever be learned by foreigners and […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/01/hunters-in-the-dark/feed/ 2 5748 The Book of Strange New Things https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/10/book-of-strange-new-things/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/10/book-of-strange-new-things/#comments Mon, 27 Oct 2014 07:55:52 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=3370   Pastor Peter Leigh is being given the spiritual chance of a lifetime: he’s been chosen to travel billions of miles to a new planet and bring Christianity to its inhabitants. The planet is called Oasis and is managed by a global corporation, USIC. The Book of Strange New Things, the latest novel from Michel […]

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