chick lit Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/chick-lit/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Thu, 15 Aug 2024 00:56:40 +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 chick lit Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/chick-lit/ 32 32 38398750 Feel Good Reading: Mini-Reviews https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/08/feel-good-reading-mini-reviews/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/08/feel-good-reading-mini-reviews/#comments Thu, 15 Aug 2024 07:42:21 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18591 Photo by Sixteen Miles Out on Unsplash   My subject line today is a weak attempt on my part to make light of why I haven’t written a review in so long. I mentioned having COVID in my July recap, but that was two weeks ago. I’ve had little to do but read so reviews […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/08/feel-good-reading-mini-reviews/feed/ 10 18591 Summer Reading Mini-Review https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/06/summer-reading-mini-review/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/06/summer-reading-mini-review/#comments Fri, 21 Jun 2024 07:39:10 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18510 I’ve had such good reading recently that I feel bit a bit bad ending this week on a negative note. At the same time, I’m not one to mince my words so while I love light-hearted, fun reading, especially in the summer, these two books fell far short of success for me.   Patrick, the […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/06/summer-reading-mini-review/feed/ 1 18510 Christa Comes Out of Her Shell https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/05/christa-comes-out-of-her-shell/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/05/christa-comes-out-of-her-shell/#comments Fri, 24 May 2024 07:13:19 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18446 Christa is a scientist who studies snails on a small isolated island. She’s perfectly happy with a life free from people thanks to a childhood spent in the spotlight. Her father was a world-famous naturalist with his own wildly popular TV show, but his plane crashed in the Alaskan wilderness when she was 2-years-old. Her […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/05/christa-comes-out-of-her-shell/feed/ 2 18446 Pineapple Street https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/03/pineapple-street/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/03/pineapple-street/#comments Fri, 15 Mar 2024 07:34:35 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18296 The Stocktons are a family of inherited wealth, the kind whose trust funds have trust funds. Cord works with their father at the family’s real estate investment firm, but beyond that jobs are not anything his sisters Georgina and Darley have ever given thought to. Money or more importantly the lack of money is not […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/03/pineapple-street/feed/ 4 18296 The Sweet Spot https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/10/the-sweet-spot/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/10/the-sweet-spot/#comments Wed, 18 Oct 2023 07:41:32 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17957 When Phillip gets an amazing job in Berlin he offers his rundown, but much-loved brownstone in Greenwich Village to his son and his family. What he doesn’t know is that the house will become the host for a wide array of characters and outrageous situations, including his daughter-in-law’s mother, who shows up unannounced to help […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/10/the-sweet-spot/feed/ 6 17957 September Reading Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/10/september-reading-wrap-up-6/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/10/september-reading-wrap-up-6/#comments Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:54:20 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17899 September has come and gone and with it, the last weak bits of Seattle summer. Shorts and tees have been packed away and I’m back to layering clothes and wearing fuzzy socks. No complaints, I love all things soft and warm—in my clothes. In my books, not so much. Still, September was a month of […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/10/september-reading-wrap-up-6/feed/ 1 17899 Nora Goes Off Script https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/05/nora-goes-off-script/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/05/nora-goes-off-script/#comments Mon, 22 May 2023 07:03:54 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17570 When Nora’s husband leaves their family to pursue his dreams, she does what she always does—she writes about it. Nora earns her living writing romance movies for cable TV, but in Nora Goes Off Script she changes things up and writes reality. The result is a screenplay that gets picked up by a major studio, complete […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/05/nora-goes-off-script/feed/ 8 17570 Last Bit of Summer: Mini-Reviews https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/08/last-bit-of-summer-mini-reviews-2/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/08/last-bit-of-summer-mini-reviews-2/#respond Mon, 29 Aug 2022 04:14:30 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16912 And by last I really mean LAST. Two more days left in August and then it’s September. But doesn’t everyone count Labor Day weekend as summer? I’m going to, even as ready as I am for this summer to be over. Thankfully, my end-of-August reading has been outstanding. More about that later, but today I’ve […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/08/last-bit-of-summer-mini-reviews-2/feed/ 0 16912 Fun Summer Reading https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/07/fun-summer-reading/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/07/fun-summer-reading/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2022 04:25:02 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16825   Hello, lovely readers! Remember me? Remember fun? Let’s pretend I’m sitting on a chaise relaxing by the lake in this photo. Ha. I survived the 2,200 mile drive from Ann Arbor, but am now ensconced in a utilitarian, extended stay hotel that is to put it kindly, dreary. My poor husband tries to manage […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/07/fun-summer-reading/feed/ 2 16825 Bloomsbury Girls: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/06/bloomsbury-girls-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/06/bloomsbury-girls-a-novel/#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2022 04:04:48 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16761 Hello! Before I get into my thoughts on the book I need to preface them. If you’ve been reading this blog for a while (thank you!) you know at least two things about me. One, my disdain for books I deem too sweet or cozy. Two, I’m not quiet when it comes to my thoughts […]

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