Chicago Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/chicago/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sat, 15 Sep 2018 22:16:10 +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 Chicago Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/chicago/ 32 32 38398750 BEA: It’s a Wrap https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/05/bea-its-a-wrap/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/05/bea-its-a-wrap/#comments Fri, 20 May 2016 07:14:43 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=6372 I promise, this is my last post about BEA and on Monday I’ll be back to book reviews—providing  I can get my brain to work again. Today I just wanted to share photos of some of the other aspects of the trip.   In case you think going to conferences is all glamour and fun, it […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/05/bea-its-a-wrap/feed/ 11 6372 BEA: The People https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/05/bea-the-people/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/05/bea-the-people/#comments Tue, 17 May 2016 01:42:44 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=6378 Hello, kittens! Sorry for the delay in writing. I have lots of excuses, but let’s just go with: the trip to BEA was so fabulous it left my head spinning and I’ve only now gotten myself pulled together enough to write. That’s not far from the truth because to say it was marvelous is an […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/05/bea-the-people/feed/ 17 6378 White Collar Girl https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/11/white-collar-girl/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/11/white-collar-girl/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2015 08:02:34 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=4582   Jordan Walsh comes from a family of writers. Her father is a well-known journalist in Chicago, her mother is a poet and up until his death two years ago, her brother Eliot was poised to carry on the family legacy. Now, it is left to the young Jordan to both fulfill her dreams of […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/11/white-collar-girl/feed/ 3 4582 The Jazz Palace https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/04/the-jazz-palace/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/04/the-jazz-palace/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2015 07:05:07 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=3954   The Jazz Palace begins with a tragedy, the sinking of the SS Eastland while it was still tied to the dock in the Chicago River. The boat was full of workers for a local company headed out for a day of picnicking when the top heavy ship rolled over on it’s side trapping and […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/04/the-jazz-palace/feed/ 4 3954 What the Lady Wants https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/11/what-the-lady-wants/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/11/what-the-lady-wants/#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2014 08:49:20 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=3416   For almost as long as I have loved books I have loved fashion and before my career in the book world I was a buyer for a large department store in Atlanta called Rich’s. Remember the good old days when department stores had a name other than Macy’s?! One of the best known in […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/11/what-the-lady-wants/feed/ 10 3416 The Chocolate Money https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2012/09/the-chocolate-money/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2012/09/the-chocolate-money/#respond Sun, 16 Sep 2012 18:57:39 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=608 Call me twisted but when a book opens with a wealthy woman complaining that no one understood her nude-themed Christmas card, I’m going to laugh. And have high hopes that something snarky and fun is about to transpire. Unfortunately, this does not work out in The Chocolate Money. Babs is the heiress to the Ballentyne […]

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