Sarah Crichton Books Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/sarah-crichton-books/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:19:33 +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 Sarah Crichton Books Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/sarah-crichton-books/ 32 32 38398750 Fun Summer Reading https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/07/fun-summer-reading/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/07/fun-summer-reading/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2022 04:25:02 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16825   Hello, lovely readers! Remember me? Remember fun? Let’s pretend I’m sitting on a chaise relaxing by the lake in this photo. Ha. I survived the 2,200 mile drive from Ann Arbor, but am now ensconced in a utilitarian, extended stay hotel that is to put it kindly, dreary. My poor husband tries to manage […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/07/fun-summer-reading/feed/ 2 16825 Eight Best Debuts of 2019 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/12/eight-best-debuts-of-2019/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/12/eight-best-debuts-of-2019/#comments Wed, 18 Dec 2019 05:30:47 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13543 One of my favorite parts about being a book blogger is discovering new literary voices. Debut authors comprise almost 40% of my reading. Here are the eight debut novels that helped make 2019 such a strong year for my reading.     I never thought a courtroom drama would not only be in my favorites […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/12/eight-best-debuts-of-2019/feed/ 8 13543 The Grammarians by Cathleen Schine https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/09/the-grammarians-by-cathleen-schine/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/09/the-grammarians-by-cathleen-schine/#comments Tue, 17 Sep 2019 07:14:42 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13231 The Grammarians is the story of identical twins Laurel and Daphne. They’re pretty, with deep auburn hair, and precocious—speaking in full sentences and reading by the time they’re five. They were born seventeen minutes apart, with Laurel being older. Daphne’s feelings about this is one of the first indicators of their unusual bond “You were alive […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/09/the-grammarians-by-cathleen-schine/feed/ 14 13231 Miracle Creek by Angie Kim https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/04/miracle-creek-by-angie-kim/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/04/miracle-creek-by-angie-kim/#comments Mon, 22 Apr 2019 07:36:43 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12591 The Yoo family—Pak, Young, and their daughter Mary, have pinned all their American hopes and all their money on their new business. It’s a hyperbaric chamber that is supposed to help cure or improve all kinds of medical issues. Angie Kim’s new novel, Miracle Creek, begins while a session is in progress. In the chamber […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/04/miracle-creek-by-angie-kim/feed/ 8 12591 February Reading Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/03/february-reading-wrap-up-3/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/03/february-reading-wrap-up-3/#comments Fri, 01 Mar 2019 08:25:35 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12331 February—what a month! On the personal side there was what was known in Seattle as Snowmageddon: 10 days when we were slammed with 3 different storms that left us with 15” inches of snow, unplowed roads, and empty grocery stores. I realize all you readers in places where snow is the norm are laughing right […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/03/february-reading-wrap-up-3/feed/ 10 12331 The House of Hidden Mothers https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/06/house-hidden-mothers/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/06/house-hidden-mothers/#comments Wed, 29 Jun 2016 07:57:27 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=6653   The House of Hidden Mothers is a melting pot of a lot of timely themes, but author Meera Syal manages them without overwhelming the flavor of the story. Forty-eight-year-old Shyama owns a successful beauty salon in London where she lives with her thirty-four-year-old boyfriend Toby and her daughter Tara, who’s attending university. By and […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/06/house-hidden-mothers/feed/ 2 6653 The Last Painting of Sara de Vos: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/04/last-painting-sara-de-vos-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/04/last-painting-sara-de-vos-novel/#comments Mon, 11 Apr 2016 07:51:28 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=6201   It’s hard to believe that something as benign as an art exhibit entitled Women of the Dutch Golden Age could be the nexus for such widespread themes as art history, abandonment, love, grief, forgery, and intrigue, but in Dominic Smith’s new novel The Last Painting of Sara de Vos it is. Eleanor Shipley is […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/04/last-painting-sara-de-vos-novel/feed/ 1 6201 The Stager by Susan Coll https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/07/the-stager-by-susan-coll/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/07/the-stager-by-susan-coll/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2015 07:39:43 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=4227 Given that we’re still in the midst of our home remodel I thought it appropriate to re-publish this review The Stager, a book I loved from 2014. It’s just been released in paperback and is a hilarious satire about the world of home staging and so much more. This time last year we were still looking […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/07/the-stager-by-susan-coll/feed/ 1 4227 The Stager: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/07/the-stager-fiction/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/07/the-stager-fiction/#comments Mon, 21 Jul 2014 07:16:54 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=3077 As the real estate market appears to be rebounding it has given birth to an entire new industry—staging. And you know an industry has arrived when it makes its debut into fiction. Susan Coll’s new novel The Stager is about a quirky stager, who remains nameless for much of the novel (which is not surprising […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/07/the-stager-fiction/feed/ 1 3077 Love Bomb: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/05/love-bomb/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/05/love-bomb/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 07:33:16 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=1690   Who doesn’t love a wedding? The friends and family of Gabe and Tess are gathered at her mother’s home for a garden wedding. The only hitch so far? The weather, which has forced the relocation of the festivities into the house. Not a problem for either Gabe or Tess, who are low key, in […]

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