Penguin Press Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/penguin-press/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:51:09 +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 Penguin Press Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/penguin-press/ 32 32 38398750 April Reading Recap https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/05/april-reading-recap-8/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/05/april-reading-recap-8/#comments Thu, 01 May 2025 07:20:38 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19130 April has come and gone and we’re once again in the middle of spring in Seattle—a welcome mix of rain, sunshine, and everything in bloom. Every window in our house looks out onto a gorgeous explosion of color whether it’s a crimson rhododendron outside my office or a front yard carpeted with pink cherry blossom […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/05/april-reading-recap-8/feed/ 2 19130 Search: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/04/search-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/04/search-a-novel/#respond Thu, 20 Apr 2023 07:43:14 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17483 I don’t read a lot of fiction with religion at its core, but Search by Michelle Huneven was recommended to me after a spate of heavy, challenging nonfiction. I knew nothing about the story, but was initially apprehensive about the premise of a woman joining the search committee for a new minister at her church. Thankfully, […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/04/search-a-novel/feed/ 0 17483 Rules for Visiting: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/03/rules-for-visiting-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/03/rules-for-visiting-a-novel/#comments Wed, 29 Mar 2023 07:15:52 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17410 May Attaway is given a monthlong sabbatical from her job as a gardener at a local university. At 39 she worries about her lack of relationships so decides to split the month into four non-consecutive weeks and go visit four friends she’s lost touch with in the hopes of kickstarting her personal life again. This […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/03/rules-for-visiting-a-novel/feed/ 4 17410 Best Books of 2022 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/12/best-books-of-2022/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/12/best-books-of-2022/#comments Thu, 29 Dec 2022 08:12:15 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17178   I’m going to cut to the chase: it was a challenging year for my reading. Not due to a lack of options, I just lost my reading mojo for a while. However, there were 8 books that broke through my broken brain and gave me all the pleasure I look for in my reading. […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/12/best-books-of-2022/feed/ 8 17178 Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/11/our-missing-hearts-by-celeste-ng/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/11/our-missing-hearts-by-celeste-ng/#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2022 08:26:15 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17057 What better time to review a novel set in an unspecified time in America’s not-too-distant future than the day before an election? Celeste Ng’s novel, Our Missing Hearts, could either be the way things should be or a dystopian hell, depending on your beliefs. I’ll leave it to you to suss out where I stand, […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/11/our-missing-hearts-by-celeste-ng/feed/ 2 17057 February Reading Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/03/february-reading-wrap-up-5/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/03/february-reading-wrap-up-5/#comments Wed, 02 Mar 2022 05:41:23 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16530 February felt like the most wintery month we’ve had since we moved to Michigan. It was bitterly cold, the wind blew at scary speeds, and it snowed. Of course, it also hit the 50s, everything melted, and it rained. Rinse. Repeat. Anyone else feel like that where they live? The great news is that it […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/12/ten-best-books-of-2019/feed/ 11 13558 October Reading Recap https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/11/october-reading-recap/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/11/october-reading-recap/#comments Wed, 06 Nov 2019 08:21:53 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13357 Hello! I know October has already ended but figured you’d all cut me some slack as I’ve been a bit busy. When I posted about taking a break because I was driving from Seattle to Ann Arbor I used a stock mountain photo, but I’m happy to report that I took this photo myself while […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/11/october-reading-recap/feed/ 8 13357 Stalled: Mini-Reviews https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/stalled-mini-reviews/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/stalled-mini-reviews/#comments Fri, 05 Jul 2019 07:47:02 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12926 In the past I’ve done a feature called It’s Not You It’s Me to indicate books I didn’t enjoy but that I believe other readers might like. Today is a bit different because in those cases I finished the books. With these three books I stalled out, set the book down and never came back […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/stalled-mini-reviews/feed/ 17 12926 On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/06/on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/06/on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous/#comments Fri, 14 Jun 2019 07:42:29 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12859 On Wednesday I reviewed a book that I  liked, but thought others might find too odd. I have the same hesitation today, but for a different reason. Ocean Vuong’s debut novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is itself a thing of beauty. His writing is poetical prose. Not surprising, because he is a poet. The […]

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