William Morrow Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/william-morrow/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Thu, 30 Nov 2023 22:49:47 +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 William Morrow Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/william-morrow/ 32 32 38398750 November Reading Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/12/november-reading-wrap-up-6/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/12/november-reading-wrap-up-6/#comments Fri, 01 Dec 2023 08:12:40 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18040   It’s odd to say, but for the most part November felt like a normal month. So, either I’m acclimating to chaos or my memory has blanked out the month. What I do know is that it was a Wild West rodeo for my reading. There was the fun of getting to read whatever I […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/12/november-reading-wrap-up-6/feed/ 4 18040 Yellowface: A Novel by R.F. Kuang https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/05/yellowface-a-novel-by-r-f-kuang/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/05/yellowface-a-novel-by-r-f-kuang/#comments Mon, 29 May 2023 07:09:26 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17582 I’ve contorted the truth into such ways that I can, in fact, make peace with it. THIS. BOOK. Yikes. Ostensibly, Yellowface is about June Hayward, an aspiring writer who has quietly seethed as her friend Athena gets the success and accolades June craves. When Athena dies in a tragic accident June uses it as an […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/05/yellowface-a-novel-by-r-f-kuang/feed/ 8 17582 January Reading Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/01/january-reading-wrap-up-5/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/01/january-reading-wrap-up-5/#comments Mon, 31 Jan 2022 05:07:21 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16452 What to say about January? A month that went so fast, but didn’t seem to move at all. With subzero temperatures and a broken supply chain that left Costco with no Diet Coke (I can go without my meds, but no Diet Coke is a bridge too far). Those are the lows, but the important […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/01/january-reading-wrap-up-5/feed/ 6 16452 Notes on an Execution: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/01/notes-on-an-execution-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/01/notes-on-an-execution-a-novel/#comments Mon, 24 Jan 2022 05:53:42 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16430 In twelve hours Ansel Packer will be executed. As the time unwinds, three women parse the life of a serial killer. Lavender is his mother, Hazel the twin sister of his wife, and Saffron the police captain involved in his capture. In Notes on an Execution their stories strip the filters from Ansel’s own Auto-tuned portrayal […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/01/notes-on-an-execution-a-novel/feed/ 2 16430 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 No One Will Miss Her: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/11/no-one-will-miss-her-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/11/no-one-will-miss-her-a-novel/#comments Mon, 15 Nov 2021 05:52:35 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16259 Everyone has their own understanding of what appeals to them in fiction. Something I love is a dead narrator. For some reason, this makes me implicitly trust them. It’s even better if they acknowledge their own unlikability as is the case with the unloved Lizzie Ouellette. No One Will Miss Her opens with her imagining […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/11/no-one-will-miss-her-a-novel/feed/ 6 16259 God Spare the Girls https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/06/god-spare-the-girls/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/06/god-spare-the-girls/#comments Wed, 23 Jun 2021 04:28:09 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15819 What do you do when your entire family is perfect, but you’re 18 and confused? For Caroline Nolan, in God Spare the Girls, it’s an especially complicated question because her father is Luke Nolan, pastor of a megachurch in Texas. Her mother Ruthie is the perfect matriarch, calm and always perfectly coiffed. Worst of all, […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/06/god-spare-the-girls/feed/ 10 15819 Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/03/sparks-like-stars-by-nadia-hashimi/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/03/sparks-like-stars-by-nadia-hashimi/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2021 05:35:13 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15460 When Sitara is 10 years old her life is flipped upside down. She goes from being the beloved only daughter of a high-ranking Afghan advisor to the country’s president to an orphan on the run. It’s 1982 and Communist backed forces stage a military coup in Nadia Hashimi’s new novel, Sparks Like Stars. Sitara’s family […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/03/sparks-like-stars-by-nadia-hashimi/feed/ 3 15460 The Divines: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/01/the-divines-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/01/the-divines-a-novel/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2021 05:29:58 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15284 Every year there it seems a different theme emerges in fiction. Last year it was twins (The Grammarians, The Vanishing Half, Thin Girls), but this year, although it’s only January, I have three novels in my winter reading that are about girls’ boarding schools. What is it about that subject that entices those of us […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/01/the-divines-a-novel/feed/ 4 15284 Five Best Debuts of 2020 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/12/five-best-debuts-of-2020/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/12/five-best-debuts-of-2020/#comments Mon, 28 Dec 2020 05:55:19 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15174   Welcome to the last week of the longest year in history. I’m going to avoid any rehashing of what a nightmare it was for so many and stick to the easy stuff: my best books of 2020! Today I have five debut books that really stood out for me. Normally, I’d have more, but […]

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