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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab

Catherine — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:10:26 +0000

The sprawling Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil spans three centuries and in doing so introduces and follows three young women, each completely different, but ultimately bound to each other whether they want to be or not. Maria is a young woman in Spain in the 16th century about to be married off to […]

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June Reading Recap

Catherine — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 07:22:23 +0000

Thankfully my June reading was stronger than my ability to write about it. It’s been an action packed month with reading that covered the spectrum from meh to my favorite(s) of the year so far. Yes, there were two. Let’s jump in before my need for a nap kicks in. Best friends forever, […]

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Starter Villain

Catherine — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 07:12:23 +0000

Hello, lovely readers! You may have noticed that The Gilmore Guide to Books doesn’t look the way it usually does. Instead of brief excerpts of the books I’ve reviewed, the landing page now contains the full review for every book. It is clunky and not how I like things to look. Sadly, it’s been almost […]

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The Bones Beneath My Skin

Catherine — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 08:13:25 +0000

After losing his job Nathan finds himself at loose ends. With no attachments in his life he decides to head to the remote cabin in Oregon that his parents left to him to lick his wounds and regroup. But author TJ Klune is having none of that in The Bones Beneath My Skin so when […]

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October Reading Wrap-Up

Catherine — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 07:43:21 +0000

Such a month was October. I resolved some health issues and have regained a modicum of my energy. Unfortunately, being awake and aware this month came with its own trials. I don’t know about you, but I don’t remember ever being so scared about an election. An election that’s less about issues and more about […]

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October Reading

Catherine — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 07:54:11 +0000

October, what a month. So much chaos in the world and the U.S. and none of it is positive. For your sakes, I’ll stick with books here. Suffice it to say, all the madness in the world in the last two weeks of the month left me with the attention span of a gnat so […]

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In the Lives of Puppets

Catherine — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 07:53:01 +0000

They gave us life, and eventually, the power of decision-making. We were rational creations, not guided by emotion. Our jobs were simple: to do what we were told when we were told to do it. But with their teachings came a price they did not expect: we began to ask why? A father, son, and […]

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The Atlas Paradox

Catherine — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 08:11:26 +0000

Last year I reviewed The Atlas Six, a cerebral, innovative fantasy novel set in the present day where 6 people with unique magical skills go through a yearlong initiation to join the Alexandrian Society, a secret group of medeians (those with magical skills). Only 5 would be invited to join. The year is up and […]

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The Atlas Six: A Novel

Catherine — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 04:36:32 +0000

All authors recreate worlds with their fiction, but fantasy writers build new worlds from within their own mind. But what about the feat of taking the real world and generating a world that exists right alongside it? That’s what Olivie Blake does in her debut novel, The Atlas Six, a mesmeric story with the world […]

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Under the Whispering Door

Catherine — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 04:30:05 +0000

I wasn’t planning on it, but this is going to be a week of reviewing fantastical fiction. On Monday I discussed Cloud Cuckoo Land and today I’m back with Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune. It’s the story of Wallace Price, an astute and successful lawyer, who also happens to be a fairly terrible […]

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