Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/houghton-mifflin-harcourt/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sun, 14 Mar 2021 20:13:10 +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 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/houghton-mifflin-harcourt/ 32 32 38398750 The Arsonists’ City by Hala Alyan https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/03/the-arsonists-city-by-hala-alyan/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/03/the-arsonists-city-by-hala-alyan/#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2021 04:57:41 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15472 From the nucleus of one family, The Arsonists’ City is a novel that spins out between decades and countries. Idris and Mazna met in the 1970s. He lived in Beirut and was studying to be a doctor and she was a young actress living with her family in Damascus. Decades later they are settled in […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/03/the-arsonists-city-by-hala-alyan/feed/ 3 15472 Becoming Duchess Goldblatt: A Memoir https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/07/becoming-duchess-goldblatt-a-memoir/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/07/becoming-duchess-goldblatt-a-memoir/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2020 04:02:38 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=14586 After eight years of writing reviews it feels as if the time for ‘firsts’ is long past, but here I am today with a first. I’ve never read or reviewed a book by an anonymous author before, but Becoming Duchess Goldblatt is just that. It’s the memoir of Duchess Goldblatt, a fictitious 81-year-old literary icon […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/07/becoming-duchess-goldblatt-a-memoir/feed/ 6 14586 All This Could Be Yours https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/06/all-this-could-be-yours/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/06/all-this-could-be-yours/#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2020 04:50:56 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=14461 After another evening spent sniping at his wife about her excessive spending, 73-year-old Victor staggers off to bed and suffers a heart attack that leaves him unconscious and at the edge of death for much of Jami Attenberg’s novel All This Could be Yours. Instead of a heartfelt outpouring of memories and love, this is […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/12/ten-best-books-of-2019/feed/ 11 13558 November Mini-Reviews https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/11/november-mini-reviews/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/11/november-mini-reviews/#comments Thu, 21 Nov 2019 08:24:14 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13425 All of the book love from Monday’s review of The Starless Sea really took it out of me so I’m giving myself (and you) a word break for the rest of the week. Today is mini-reviews—three very different books with fewer words about each.     In Adrienne Brodeur’s memoir, Wild Game fact once again […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/11/november-mini-reviews/feed/ 14 13425 Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/10/tuesday-mooney-talks-to-ghosts/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/10/tuesday-mooney-talks-to-ghosts/#comments Mon, 14 Oct 2019 07:53:42 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13319 I loved Kate Racculia’s last novel, Bellweather Rhapsody, because it combined so many of my favorite elements—quirky, smart outsiders, the realities of life butting up against the unexpected, and sharp, funny writing. This means I was nervously excited to learn she had a new novel out this month. It is so hard to duplicate that […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/10/tuesday-mooney-talks-to-ghosts/feed/ 4 13319 Maybe You Should Talk to Someone https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/09/maybe-you-should-talk-to-someone/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/09/maybe-you-should-talk-to-someone/#comments Mon, 09 Sep 2019 07:49:30 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13216 Sometimes a book comes my way not from reviews or recommendations, but from simple proximity—I see it at the library and decide to read it. Very often these are some of my favorite books. This is the case with Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb. It’s her account of being a therapist and […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/09/maybe-you-should-talk-to-someone/feed/ 12 13216 It’s Not You, It’s Me: Mini-Reviews https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/08/its-not-you-its-me-mini-reviews-10/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/08/its-not-you-its-me-mini-reviews-10/#comments Wed, 08 Aug 2018 07:18:43 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=11155 These days it seems it’s harder and harder to get anyone to agree on anything so why should books be any different? What is different is that we’re nicer people so sometimes I’m able to admit—It’s Not You, It’s Me when I don’t like a book. In this case, one book left me puzzled and […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/08/its-not-you-its-me-mini-reviews-10/feed/ 3 11155 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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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/06/june-reading-wrap-up/feed/ 5 10870 Summer Fun Non-Fiction: Mini-Reviews https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/06/summer-fun-non-fiction-mini-reviews/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/06/summer-fun-non-fiction-mini-reviews/#comments Mon, 25 Jun 2018 07:19:44 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=10857 As you well know I’m not a big non-fiction reader, but between friends’ recommendations and my library’s awesome Peak Picks program (brand new releases available without a hold list), I came across these three books that covered all my non-fiction needs.     I have always cringed at movie critics who say a movie “made […]

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