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Heart, Be at Peace

Catherine — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 07:15:20 +0000

Two five-stars in one week?! What’s going on over here at The Gilmore Guide? Well, the reviews have been pretty few and far between this summer so I felt like giving everyone another outstanding reading option was the least I could do. I’ve been enthralled by Irish authors for years now and one of […]

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June Reading Recap

Catherine — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 07:57:21 +0000

The photo above is more an interpretation of my brain these days than a statement about June in Seattle. Apologies to everyone in the path of this staggering heatwave, but it’s been a lovely month here weatherwise. My reading was similar. The stormy part comes into play in that in an effort to mute the […]

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My 8 Favorite Books of 2023

Catherine — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 08:20:54 +0000

Finally! Let’s talk reading again, specifically my favorite books of 2023 so we can move onto what lies ahead in 2024. It was an interesting year in that I don’t remember another time when I had this many 5-star nonfiction books. I’m not even sure I’ve ever read so much great nonfiction in one […]

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A Fever in the Heartland

Catherine — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 07:15:03 +0000

I had little idea what to expect when I picked up Timothy Egan’s new book, A Fever in the Heartland. I knew it was about the Ku Klux Klan, but its subtitle seemed a bit dramatic: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them. It actually proved to […]

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July Reading Wrap-Up

Catherine — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 07:51:26 +0000

Goodbye, July. It was a busy month of travel, family reunion, and not-so-fun adulting, but overall there was some great reading to be had amongst the gorgeous weather here in Seattle. I’m sorry for you lovelies who struggled with sweltering. One week in Colorado in the 90s was enough to make me overjoyed to return […]

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June Reading Recap

Catherine — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 07:38:33 +0000

This June recap is a little special. Monday, July 3rd, is my mother’s 85th birthday and I want to give her the biggest shout-out I can because aside from being a wonderful mother, this blog, the podcast, my career as a librarian, none of it would have happened without her passion for books. She’s the […]

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The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Catherine — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 05:36:25 +0000

Nora Seed is a very unhappy woman. At 35 she feels her life is mainly filled with regrets, that the future holds no hope, and that she contributes nothing to the world. When her beloved cat dies, it’s the last straw. She decides to kill herself with a drug overdose. What happens next is best […]

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A Star Called Henry

Catherine — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 08:28:05 +0000

There may be a lot about the reality of historical Ireland that I don’t like (being a woman and all), but fictionally, male Irish authors are some of the most lyrically gifted I’ve ever read. My longtime favorite was William Trevor (The Story of Lucy Gault, Death in Summer) and then this fall I […]

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January Reading Wrap-Up

Catherine — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 08:27:11 +0000

Well, all righty, the first month of 2017 is wrapping up. I’ve already noted that my reading is still in an odd place, but I’m working very hard to get my head and heart back into the game—what’s happening now is going to keep on happening. One very positive thing I did in January […]

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In the Language of Miracles

Catherine — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 07:44:05 +0000

The American Dream is portrayed in any number of novels, often from the perspective of the struggle to reach it, but In the Language of Miracles Samir and Nagla Al-Menshawy are Egyptians who have already achieved the dream. He is a doctor and they live in a nice New Jersey suburb with their three children. […]

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