Counterpoint Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/counterpoint/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Thu, 16 Jul 2020 22:35:55 +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 Counterpoint Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/counterpoint/ 32 32 38398750 Heart Berries: A Memoir https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/05/heart-berries-memoir/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/05/heart-berries-memoir/#comments Wed, 09 May 2018 07:00:07 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=10607 It’s hard, as a reviewer, to say you loved a book or felt deeply touched by it, but that you’re not sure you understood a lot of it. And by understand, I mean, literally, the facts. This is the case for me regarding Terese Mailhot’s memoir, Heart Berries. The emotion of it gripped me. The […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/05/heart-berries-memoir/feed/ 6 10607 The Widow Nash: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/08/widow-nash/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/08/widow-nash/#comments Wed, 02 Aug 2017 06:00:14 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=9141   Call me vulgar, but when a book opens with a young woman, a father who’s dying of syphilis, missing money and a murderous ex-fiancé, I’m all in. It’s the early 1900s, the young woman is twenty-four-year-old Dulcy (short of Leda Cordelia Dulcinea) and her father, Walton Remfrey, is an eccentric but brilliant inventor and […]

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