The Dial Press Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/the-dial-press/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sun, 17 Jul 2022 17:40:41 +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 The Dial Press Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/the-dial-press/ 32 32 38398750 Memphis: A Novel by Tara Stringfellow https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/04/memphis-a-novel-by-tara-stringfellow/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/04/memphis-a-novel-by-tara-stringfellow/#comments Mon, 11 Apr 2022 04:34:17 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16637 Memphis is both the title and location of Tara Stringfellow’s stirring debut novel. Three generations of women pass through the family’s home and tumultuous times in a city where racism and violence flourish. Hazel, August, Miriam, and Joan share lives that spill over with trauma, love, and resilience in this novel about the abiding strength […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/04/memphis-a-novel-by-tara-stringfellow/feed/ 4 16637 Untamed by Glennon Doyle https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/03/untamed-by-glennon-doyle/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/03/untamed-by-glennon-doyle/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2020 04:49:51 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=14034 Several weeks ago, I enthused about a novel that I thought was outstanding even though it was DARK (The Road, which I would not recommend reading anytime soon). Now I’m back to balance the scales by going full-on evangelical about a book so bright it glows. Untamed is Glennon Doyle’s journey, extracted and distilled into […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/03/untamed-by-glennon-doyle/feed/ 2 14034 My (Not So) Perfect Life https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/01/my-not-so-perfect-life/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/01/my-not-so-perfect-life/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2017 08:25:52 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=8287   Oh, happy day! Sophie Kinsella is back and she still has her fingers on the pulse of the twenty-something woman (and the older women who often like reading about them). To anyone who knows me, Kinsella leads off my chick-lit, make-it-all-go-away reading. And lately, that’s about all I can seem to manage. In My […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/01/my-not-so-perfect-life/feed/ 2 8287 Take It or Leave It: Contemporary Life https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/08/take-it-leave-contemporary-life/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/08/take-it-leave-contemporary-life/#comments Wed, 03 Aug 2016 07:42:33 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=6775 Contemporary life almost always makes for good fiction, but needs to be done right. That’s why the ‘take it or leave it’ theme today. I recently read two light fiction novels and only one struck the right note.   Take It Nine Women, One Dress by Jane Rosen fits perfectly from beginning to end. The title […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/08/take-it-leave-contemporary-life/feed/ 6 6775 December Mini-Reviews https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/12/december-mini-reviews/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/12/december-mini-reviews/#comments Wed, 31 Dec 2014 08:04:55 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=3600 I know books won’t be on most of your minds tonight but thought I’d get December mini-reviews in before I hit the champagne. Plus, both of these books are light enough that if you start them this morning you’ll have finished them well before midnight.     The New Countess: As the writer of the pilot for […]

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