Tordotcom Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/tordotcom/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Fri, 01 Jul 2022 12:53:40 +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 Tordotcom Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/tordotcom/ 32 32 38398750 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 Siren Queen: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/05/siren-queen-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/05/siren-queen-a-novel/#comments Wed, 25 May 2022 04:19:30 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16728 After the penetrating reality of displacement in An Unlasting Home I opted to change reading direction and dive into fantasy. My choice, Siren Queen, led me deep into a 1920s Hollywood that was at once recognizable, but darkly surreal. A world one young American Chinese woman is desperate to be a part of, but only on […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/05/siren-queen-a-novel/feed/ 2 16728 My 6 Favorite Debuts of 2021 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/my-6-favorite-debuts-of-2021/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/my-6-favorite-debuts-of-2021/#comments Mon, 20 Dec 2021 05:53:08 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16321   Happy Monday and welcome to my first yearend best-of lists. Today is a favorite category: best debuts. Finding new authors is one of my greatest reading pleasures and 2021 proved to be a very good year. Of all my reading, 38% was debut authors and of those debuts I rated 36% 3.5 stars or […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/my-6-favorite-debuts-of-2021/feed/ 6 16321 The Chosen and the Beautiful https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/the-chosen-and-the-beautiful/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/the-chosen-and-the-beautiful/#comments Fri, 17 Dec 2021 05:30:40 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16333 Wouldn’t you know it—as soon as I post my overlooked books of 2021 another slips in under the wire. I finished The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo Wednesday morning after my post went live. This marvelous novel is a retelling of The Great Gatsby but from the perspective of Jordan Baker, seen in […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/the-chosen-and-the-beautiful/feed/ 4 16333 A Spindle Splintered by Alix Harrow https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/10/a-spindle-splintered-by-alix-harrow/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/10/a-spindle-splintered-by-alix-harrow/#comments Mon, 18 Oct 2021 04:36:44 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16196 I often talk about diverse reading or reading outside my comfort zone, but it’s usually about heavy novels on difficult topics (like last week’s We Are Not Like Them), but how about FUN reading that falls in genres you don’t normally read? Such as fantasy or more specifically, fairy tales. We all know about Sleeping […]

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