Pamela Dorman Books Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/pamela-dorman-books/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:49:59 +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 Pamela Dorman Books Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/pamela-dorman-books/ 32 32 38398750 The Names by Florence Knapp https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/11/the-names-by-florence-knapp/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/11/the-names-by-florence-knapp/#comments Mon, 10 Nov 2025 08:05:39 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19384 It feels odd to say that a book that left me so saddened and troubled was a favorite, but it’s the case with author Florence Knapp’s debut, The Names. This is an alternate realities story about an infant boy whose mother, Cora, in three scenarios, chooses a different name for him. The story follows the […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/11/the-names-by-florence-knapp/feed/ 5 19384 The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/02/the-life-cycle-of-the-common-octopus/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/02/the-life-cycle-of-the-common-octopus/#comments Wed, 19 Feb 2025 08:47:20 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19007 Monday I shared a literary novel I loved and now I’m back with another. The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus is the witty, contemporary story of two friends and their freshman year at the University of Edinburgh. Alice and Penelope both have their reasons for wanting to leave Canada and go to this particular […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/02/the-life-cycle-of-the-common-octopus/feed/ 4 19007 Nightwatching: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/05/nightwatching-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/05/nightwatching-a-novel/#comments Thu, 09 May 2024 07:29:57 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18412 On Tuesday I shared a slow-burn novel of suspense, so I’m wrapping up the week with a fast-paced dreadfest extravaganza. Author Tracy Sierra takes on the primal ‘stranger in the house’ fear that’s spawned decades of movies and books and makes it her own in her debut, Nightwatching. In this modern take on old-fashioned terror […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/05/nightwatching-a-novel/feed/ 4 18412 Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/04/mrs-quinns-rise-to-fame/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/04/mrs-quinns-rise-to-fame/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2024 07:20:15 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18382 The trend of lighter reading has been working for me so I thought I’d wrap up April with one more charming novel. Mainly because it combined two things I really love: a favorite TV show and sumptuous descriptions of baking. The novel is Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame and is about Jenny, a 77-year-old British […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/04/mrs-quinns-rise-to-fame/feed/ 4 18382 Pineapple Street https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/03/pineapple-street/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/03/pineapple-street/#comments Fri, 15 Mar 2024 07:34:35 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18296 The Stocktons are a family of inherited wealth, the kind whose trust funds have trust funds. Cord works with their father at the family’s real estate investment firm, but beyond that jobs are not anything his sisters Georgina and Darley have ever given thought to. Money or more importantly the lack of money is not […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/03/pineapple-street/feed/ 4 18296 Talking at Night https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/10/talking-at-night/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/10/talking-at-night/#comments Fri, 20 Oct 2023 07:37:34 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17963 Talking at Night is a love story about Rosie and Will, two young people impacted by a guilt-inducing tragedy when they’re in their teens, but whose feelings for each other continue to push them together and pull them apart throughout their lives. The two couldn’t be more different. Will is the rebellious sort—no interest in […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/10/talking-at-night/feed/ 2 17963 The Whispers by Ashley Audrain https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/09/the-whispers-by-ashley-audrain/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/09/the-whispers-by-ashley-audrain/#respond Thu, 21 Sep 2023 07:56:41 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17878 If there’s anything more fickle than the heart it’s got to be my reading mind as my light/dark trend continues. Tuesday’s review was about a poignant novel covering the expanse of human emotions, but today The Whispers, dwells solely in the realm of the seven deadly sins as they play out amongst four women in […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/09/the-whispers-by-ashley-audrain/feed/ 0 17878 Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/04/saturday-night-at-the-lakeside-supper-club/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/04/saturday-night-at-the-lakeside-supper-club/#comments Tue, 11 Apr 2023 07:13:25 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17447 J. Ryan Stradal’s new novel, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club, employs his familiar template of families, food and drink, but once again he uses it to create a fresh canvas for two families in northern Minnesota. Each runs a restaurant, but the similarities stop there. Betty and Floyd run the Lakeside, a traditional […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/04/saturday-night-at-the-lakeside-supper-club/feed/ 3 17447 2022 Underrated Gems https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/12/2022-underrated-gems/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/12/2022-underrated-gems/#comments Mon, 26 Dec 2022 08:43:15 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17159 Nothing like waiting until the last week of the year to put out best-of lists. Today I want to share five gems that I adored that didn’t get as much love and attention as they deserve. Hopefully, you got gift cards and pick up at least one of these remarkable novels.   Title links go […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/12/2022-underrated-gems/feed/ 11 17159 All the Broken Places https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/12/all-the-broken-places/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/12/all-the-broken-places/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2022 08:36:18 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17128 What better way to start the last month of 2022 then with a 5 ⭐️ book. It’s John Boyne’s mesmerizing novel, All the Broken Places. Where some novels entertain by skating along the surface, this book plumbs the deepest depths of the human psyche, hunting the meaning of complicity during one of history’s darkest chapters. […]

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