Pantheon Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/pantheon/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Wed, 31 Jul 2024 18:10:01 +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 Pantheon Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/pantheon/ 32 32 38398750 July Reading Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/08/july-reading-wrap-up-6/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/08/july-reading-wrap-up-6/#comments Thu, 01 Aug 2024 07:49:13 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18578 Hello, lovely readers! I’m sorry for my absence at the end of July but a whole lot of life—some of it very happy, some of it not so much—got in the way of my reading and reviewing. The happy was a family wedding and the not-fun was experiencing COVID for the first time.  Wow. Even […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/08/july-reading-wrap-up-6/feed/ 3 18578 8 Beautiful Backlist Books to Read Now https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/04/8-beautiful-backlist-books-to-read-now/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/04/8-beautiful-backlist-books-to-read-now/#comments Mon, 13 Apr 2020 04:10:37 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=14166 After a little digression on Friday, it’s back to books! Reading may be your escape during quarantine, but for many the economic issues caused by the pandemic means buying the newest releases isn’t a great idea. So, today I’ve got eight beautiful backlist books I read and loved years ago. Several I’ve never talked about […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/04/8-beautiful-backlist-books-to-read-now/feed/ 2 14166 Small Books, Quick Thoughts https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/11/small-books-quick-thoughts/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/11/small-books-quick-thoughts/#comments Fri, 29 Nov 2019 08:57:23 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13457 This post may include Amazon links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. I was going to call this post Short and Sweet, but the title is not quite right for these three novels. Sweet implies a bit of passivity and isn’t often a trait I like in my fiction. Instead, each of […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/11/small-books-quick-thoughts/feed/ 2 13457 December Library Checkout https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/12/december-library-checkout/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/12/december-library-checkout/#comments Fri, 30 Dec 2016 08:43:57 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=7784 Happy last day of 2016! Suffice it to say I’m ready to wash my hands of this year. Actually, not the entire year. I had some great personal experiences earlier in 2016 but the second half has been draining and difficult. Like so many people I know, the election results have made staying positive challenging. […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/12/december-library-checkout/feed/ 12 7784 The Mare: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/12/the-mare-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/12/the-mare-a-novel/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2016 08:43:51 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=7524   The Mare by Mary Gaitskill begins when Velvet, a Dominican girl living in NYC, is eleven and ends when she thirteen, but her life experiences go far beyond her age. Through the Fresh Air Fund, she gets to go to upstate NY for a summer and stays with Ginger (“this blond lady…her face full […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/12/the-mare-a-novel/feed/ 12 7524 How to Set a Fire and Why https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/07/how-to-set-a-fire-and-why/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/07/how-to-set-a-fire-and-why/#comments Tue, 05 Jul 2016 07:24:00 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=6694 You may be wondering why I am giving you this account. Well, I don’t know really. A bunch of things happened and I’m just putting them in order. I’m doing it for myself. You are just a construction—you’re helping me to put things in order.  You are my fictional audience and as such, I appreciate […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/07/how-to-set-a-fire-and-why/feed/ 6 6694 Version Control https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/02/version-control/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/02/version-control/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2016 08:50:30 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=5995   Author Dexter Palmer eases the reader into his new novel Version Control with an unspecified time in the future where we have cool things like cars that drive themselves so that even if your commute is an hour long you can either get work done or sleep. What’s not to love about that? Clothes […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/02/version-control/feed/ 4 5995 The Stargazer’s Sister https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/01/the-stargazers-sister/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/01/the-stargazers-sister/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2016 08:13:18 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=5780 Much of Caroline Herschel’s life is spent alone with her angry, unhappy mother, working as little better than a slave for a woman who has never shown her any interest or kindness. As a young girl she contracted typhus but it is the 1700s and there is nothing to be done but hope she survives. […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/01/the-stargazers-sister/feed/ 11 5780 The Household Spirit https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/06/the-household-spirit/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/06/the-household-spirit/#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2015 07:13:35 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=4113 In The Household Spirit, on a rural road in upstate New York, there sit two identical houses inhabited by two people who are anything but identical. Howie Jeffries is fifty-years old and has lived alone in his house since he and his wife divorced twenty years ago. He is a man with a huge heart […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/06/the-household-spirit/feed/ 2 4113 Emma: A Modern Retelling https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/04/emma-a-modern-retelling/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/04/emma-a-modern-retelling/#comments Mon, 13 Apr 2015 07:40:49 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=3938   Alexander McCall Smith takes a turn at adapting Jane Austen in his newest novel, Emma: A Modern Retelling. Don’t call for the smelling salts diehard Austen fans, he does not commit the unpardonable sin of veering too far off course from her classic. Emma is still Emma as are all the other characters right […]

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