William Morrow & Company Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/william-morrow-company/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:11:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.5 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg William Morrow & Company Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/william-morrow-company/ 32 32 38398750 The Children by Melissa Albert https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/08/the-children-by-melissa-albert/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/08/the-children-by-melissa-albert/#respond Thu, 27 Aug 2026 07:44:18 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19784 In her new novel, The Children author Melissa Albert goes with the familiar theme of life as the child of a celebrity and pushes it even harder. Edith is a writer who gained her fame and fortune by writing a series of children’s fantasy books, using her own children’s names and even their likenesses. Ennis […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/08/the-children-by-melissa-albert/feed/ 0 19784 City of Widows https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/08/city-of-widows/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/08/city-of-widows/#respond Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:30:51 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19765 Nadia Hashimi’s novel, City of Widows is set in Kabul in 2021 as America is in the final stages of withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan. Despite all the promises made by the Taliban to honor the changes made in the country they are already targeting women for harassment and are arresting and/or killing anyone who […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/08/city-of-widows/feed/ 0 19765 July Reading Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/07/july-reading-wrap-up-8/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/07/july-reading-wrap-up-8/#respond Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:24:05 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19743 Another July is in the books (pun intended) and I have yet to manifest the serene reading set-up in this graphic. Wouldn’t it be lovely? Thankfully, my July reading delivered more highs than lows.   The Original is a take on Katherine Hepburn’s life, but Priya Parmar surrounds her with a cast who were all […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/07/july-reading-wrap-up-8/feed/ 0 19743 Her Many Faces https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/09/her-many-faces/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/09/her-many-faces/#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2025 07:48:17 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19304 When four wealthy, prominent men are found poisoned at their exclusive club the police waste no time in apprehending the killer. Katherine Cole was the server at their private party and the last one to see them alive. She was also caught at the train station trying to leave London and when detained incriminated herself. […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/09/her-many-faces/feed/ 2 19304 June Reading Recap https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/06/june-reading-recap-3/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/06/june-reading-recap-3/#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2025 07:57:21 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19207 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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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/06/june-reading-recap-3/feed/ 4 19207 May Reading Recap https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/05/may-reading-recap-7/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/05/may-reading-recap-7/#comments Fri, 30 May 2025 07:22:06 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19151 May turned into quite a month for my reading and beyond. There’s plenty to share, but for now, I’ll stick with some of the books that stuck with me (and a couple that missed the mark).   Daniel is a criminal profiler who works finding serial killers. He’s chosen this line of work because he’s […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/05/may-reading-recap-7/feed/ 8 19151 More 2024 Reading I Loved https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/more-2024-reading-i-loved/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/more-2024-reading-i-loved/#comments Mon, 30 Dec 2024 08:54:27 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18881 I’m back with more books I loved in 2024. On Friday I shared the fact that almost all my 5-star favorite books for the year were backlist, but I still wanted to give a shoutout to this wide variety of new releases I thought were wonderful. Each provided me with the escape I wanted in […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/more-2024-reading-i-loved/feed/ 4 18881 I Hope This Finds You Well https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/10/i-hope-this-finds-you-well/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/10/i-hope-this-finds-you-well/#comments Wed, 30 Oct 2024 07:42:46 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18741 Apparently, the reading gods have taken pity on me this fall because I’m on a roll with FUN, entertaining, reading. Case in point: I Hope This Finds You Well, a debut from Canadian author Natalie Sue. This novel’s main ingredient is humor, but she blends it into something with more depth as one introverted office […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/10/i-hope-this-finds-you-well/feed/ 2 18741 What Happened to Nina? https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/09/what-happened-to-nina/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/09/what-happened-to-nina/#respond Thu, 05 Sep 2024 07:15:54 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18618   When What Happened to Nina? opens we meet Nina, a vivacious 20-year-old who loves being outside. She’s with her boyfriend Simon at his parents’ vacation home in Vermont and they’re preparing to go out on a climb. This day is the first and last time we’ll hear from Nina. From this point on, when […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/09/what-happened-to-nina/feed/ 0 18618 The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/07/the-diamond-eye-by-kate-quinn/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/07/the-diamond-eye-by-kate-quinn/#comments Fri, 19 Jul 2024 07:44:45 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18570 When three members of my family rave about a novel, I really don’t have much choice but to read it, which is how I found myself immersed in the early days of WWII with a young Ukrainian sniper. A female sniper fighting on the front lines in Kate Quinn’s propulsive The Diamond Eye. Lyudmila Pavlichenko […]

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