Penguin Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/penguin/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:11:17 +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 Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/penguin/ 32 32 38398750 Crux by Gabriel Tallent https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/02/crux-by-gabriel-tallent/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/02/crux-by-gabriel-tallent/#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:33:32 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19492 Life in a nowhere town in the Mojave Desert should be torture for teens, but Daniel and Tamma are rock-climbing freaks and the area is filled with challenging boulders. Best friends since childhood they spend every waking moment not in school out on the rocks, but as Crux opens it is senior year. Daniel is […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/02/crux-by-gabriel-tallent/feed/ 2 19492 More 2024 Reading I Loved https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/more-2024-reading-i-loved/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/more-2024-reading-i-loved/#comments Mon, 30 Dec 2024 08:54:27 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18881 I’m back with more books I loved in 2024. On Friday I shared the fact that almost all my 5-star favorite books for the year were backlist, but I still wanted to give a shoutout to this wide variety of new releases I thought were wonderful. Each provided me with the escape I wanted in […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/more-2024-reading-i-loved/feed/ 4 18881 You’d Look Better as a Ghost https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/07/youd-look-better-as-a-ghost/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/07/youd-look-better-as-a-ghost/#comments Wed, 03 Jul 2024 07:42:22 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18536 When You’d Look Better as a Ghost opens Claire has just found out that a piece of her art has been accepted for a prestigious show. It’s only the next day that she gets another email from the same person letting her know he made a mistake and it’s another woman named Claire who got […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/07/youd-look-better-as-a-ghost/feed/ 4 18536 The Queen of Dirt Island https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/03/the-queen-of-dirt-island/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/03/the-queen-of-dirt-island/#comments Wed, 08 Mar 2023 08:21:02 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17341 The week Saoirse Aylward is born her father is killed in an accident, leaving her mother, Eileen alone to raise her. Their lives in a small village in western Ireland are at the heart of Donal Ryan’s boisterous, tender novel The Queen of Dirt Island. Although the novel stays within the village’s borders it’s an […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/03/the-queen-of-dirt-island/feed/ 8 17341 The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/01/the-invisible-kingdom-reimagining-chronic-illness/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/01/the-invisible-kingdom-reimagining-chronic-illness/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2023 08:49:22 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17219 I don’t often discuss personal issues in this blog, but for those of you who have been around long enough, you know I have multiple sclerosis. Recently, I read a book that resonated so deeply with me I knew it could have the same impact on other readers. The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/01/the-invisible-kingdom-reimagining-chronic-illness/feed/ 9 17219 The Displacements https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/09/the-displacements/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/09/the-displacements/#comments Wed, 28 Sep 2022 07:07:51 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16982 In the late 70s, early 80s disaster books and movies were most often centered around manmade situations—The Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure, The China Syndrome, and Airport. It was man’s technical overreach that was going to take us down or at least had us worried. The latest crop of disaster novels is again looking at […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/09/the-displacements/feed/ 2 16982 June Reading Recap https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/07/june-reading-recap/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/07/june-reading-recap/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2022 04:08:27 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16806 June. What a month. Normally, this is a recap of my reading, but no matter how I try to stick to the subject of books my brain refuses to cooperate. By this time next week we’ll be starting the 2,200 mile trip from Ann Arbor to Seattle. The unending list of what needs to be […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/07/june-reading-recap/feed/ 4 16806 This Time Tomorrow https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/06/this-time-tomorrow/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/06/this-time-tomorrow/#comments Thu, 09 Jun 2022 04:57:17 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16770 I’ve had mixed success with time travel novels this summer (I’m looking at you, One Italian Summer) so I was a bit hesitant to pick up This Time Tomorrow. What swayed me is that it’s by Emma Straub, whose last novel All Adults Here was a favorite of mine. Thankfully, while I may not have […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/06/this-time-tomorrow/feed/ 10 16770 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/05/10-minutes-38-seconds-in-this-strange-world/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/05/10-minutes-38-seconds-in-this-strange-world/#comments Wed, 04 May 2022 04:53:11 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16677 A Turkish woman lying murdered in a rubbish bin hardly seems like the appropriate subject for a piercingly tender novel about the damage done to innocence in childhood and the bonds of friendship as family, but 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World is a singular work that defies labels. The same is true […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/05/10-minutes-38-seconds-in-this-strange-world/feed/ 2 16677 January Reading Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/01/january-reading-wrap-up-5/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/01/january-reading-wrap-up-5/#comments Mon, 31 Jan 2022 05:07:21 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16452 What to say about January? A month that went so fast, but didn’t seem to move at all. With subzero temperatures and a broken supply chain that left Costco with no Diet Coke (I can go without my meds, but no Diet Coke is a bridge too far). Those are the lows, but the important […]

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