childhood Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/childhood/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:04:03 +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 childhood Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/childhood/ 32 32 38398750 Home of the American Circus https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/08/home-of-the-american-circus/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/08/home-of-the-american-circus/#respond Thu, 21 Aug 2025 07:18:22 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19274 Home of the American Circus begins with Freya’s rent being overdue and her appendix bursting. These two events give her no choice but to leave Maine where she lives and head back to her hometown in New York. And not just the town, but her childhood home which was left to her by her parents. Once […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/08/home-of-the-american-circus/feed/ 0 19274 Behind the Scenes at the Museum https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/02/behind-the-scenes-at-the-museum/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/02/behind-the-scenes-at-the-museum/#respond Fri, 07 Feb 2025 08:16:40 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18971 Ruby Lennox has no intention of waiting to be noticed. She is the front and center, the axis in the familial wheel that is Kate Atkinson’s Behind the Scenes at the Museum. The novel begins with her announcing her own conception when her father drunkenly impregnates her mother. From this instant on we journey with […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/02/behind-the-scenes-at-the-museum/feed/ 0 18971 This Motherless Land https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/01/this-motherless-land/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/01/this-motherless-land/#respond Mon, 27 Jan 2025 08:30:06 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18937 A loving, happy, Nigerian family is torn apart when a daughter survives a horrific car crash that leaves her mother and brother dead and her father’s grief makes him hate her for surviving. This is This Motherless Land and Funke is the daughter, who at eight finds herself on a plane to England to live […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/01/this-motherless-land/feed/ 0 18937 Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/02/leaving-atlanta-by-tayari-jones/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/02/leaving-atlanta-by-tayari-jones/#comments Fri, 09 Feb 2024 08:25:05 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18214 In 1979 a serial killer in Atlanta began targeting Black children. This disturbing truth is the premise for Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones. A painfully powerful novel it chronicles the lives of three 10-year-olds living in the neighborhoods where children were vanishing. For each, the disappearances and murders will have an impact on their lives, […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/02/leaving-atlanta-by-tayari-jones/feed/ 2 18214 All That is Mine I Carry With Me https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/09/all-that-is-mine-i-carry-with-me/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/09/all-that-is-mine-i-carry-with-me/#comments Tue, 12 Sep 2023 07:45:31 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17857 The scene is cleanly set when in the simpler times of 1975 10-year-old Miranda arrives home from school to find the house locked and, after she uses the hidden key to get in, empty. Her mother should be there. Her mother is always there to greet her after school. Her car, keys, handbag all in […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/09/all-that-is-mine-i-carry-with-me/feed/ 2 17857 I’m Glad My Mom Died https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/01/im-glad-my-mom-died/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/01/im-glad-my-mom-died/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:26:58 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17224 How to review a memoir with a title so jarring I felt bad for even looking at it? Especially as my mother has always been one of the biggest supporters of my writing and reads every review (Hi, Mom, I love you!). Here goes. Jennette McCurdy was a child actor on a popular Nickelodeon show […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/01/im-glad-my-mom-died/feed/ 6 17224 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 The Survivors: A Novel by Alex Schulman https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/11/the-survivors-a-novel-by-alex-schulman/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/11/the-survivors-a-novel-by-alex-schulman/#respond Mon, 22 Nov 2021 05:19:38 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16281 Alex Schulman is a well-known Swedish author with The Survivors being his first book to be translated into English. The novel begins with a policeman arriving at a lakeside cottage where three men wait, bloody and exhausted. Nils, Benjamin, and Pierre are brothers who came to the house to dispose of their mother’s ashes, a […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/11/the-survivors-a-novel-by-alex-schulman/feed/ 0 16281 Fight Night: A Novel by Miriam Toews https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/10/fight-night-a-novel-by-miriam-toews/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/10/fight-night-a-novel-by-miriam-toews/#comments Mon, 04 Oct 2021 04:12:33 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16171 Sometimes when we fight…sometimes we’re not fighting in quite the right way…we need to adjust our game. But still, the main thing is that we’re fighting…your mom’s a fighter. We’re all fighters. Swiv comes from a family of fighters. At nine she’s suspended from school because King of the Castle is not a recess game […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/10/fight-night-a-novel-by-miriam-toews/feed/ 2 16171 The Paper Palace https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/07/the-paper-palace/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/07/the-paper-palace/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2021 04:15:49 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15951 No more regrets for what I haven’t done. Now only regrets for what I have done. I love him, I hate myself. I love myself, I hate him. This is the end of a long story. These are the words of Eleanor (Elle) a 50-year-old, happily married woman who had sex last night with Jonas, […]

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