Doubleday Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/doubleday/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sun, 21 Feb 2021 22:52:28 +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 Doubleday Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/doubleday/ 32 32 38398750 The Starless Sea https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/11/the-starless-sea/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/11/the-starless-sea/#comments Mon, 18 Nov 2019 08:30:12 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13418 If you know me at all you know I’m seldom at a loss for words. But when an author uses all the best words in their novel, the way Erin Morgenstern did in The Starless Sea, what’s left for someone trying to write about it? I have such tender feelings for this book I’m almost […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/11/the-starless-sea/feed/ 8 13418 The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/the-nickel-boys-by-colson-whitehead/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/the-nickel-boys-by-colson-whitehead/#comments Wed, 17 Jul 2019 07:51:18 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12976 Thanks to his strict grandmother, Elwood Curtis is the kind of young man anyone would be proud of. He’s smart, honest, and dependable. He is a devoted follower of Martin Luther King, listening to a record of his speeches until he knows them by heart. After he graduates from high school he has the chance […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/the-nickel-boys-by-colson-whitehead/feed/ 6 12976 The Most Fun We Ever Had: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/the-most-fun-we-ever-had-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/the-most-fun-we-ever-had-a-novel/#comments Mon, 08 Jul 2019 07:53:36 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12946 Where to begin about The Most Fun We Ever Had? To be concise: It’s a sweeping story of a Chicago couple who meet and marry in 1970s and go on to have four daughters. But that’s like telling someone the Grand Canyon is a big hole in the ground and not the way I work. […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/the-most-fun-we-ever-had-a-novel/feed/ 7 12946 The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/05/castle-on-sunset-chateau-marmont/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/05/castle-on-sunset-chateau-marmont/#comments Thu, 30 May 2019 07:51:29 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12797 Everyone knows I’m not a big fan of non-fiction. It’s not that I think it’s all bad—I know it’s no different than fiction with lots of great stuff out there. It’s just that reading it makes me drowsy. I can’t get more than 10 pages in most non-fiction without wanting a nap. So, it’s got […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/01/my-sister-the-serial-killer/feed/ 13 12005 Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/12/killers-of-the-flower-moon-the-osage-murders-and-the-birth-of-the-fbi/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/12/killers-of-the-flower-moon-the-osage-murders-and-the-birth-of-the-fbi/#comments Wed, 12 Dec 2018 08:53:47 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=11924 The post Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI appeared first on The Gilmore Guide to Books.

]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/12/killers-of-the-flower-moon-the-osage-murders-and-the-birth-of-the-fbi/feed/ 4 11924 The Silence of the Girls https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/09/the-silence-of-the-girls/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/09/the-silence-of-the-girls/#respond Mon, 24 Sep 2018 07:27:54 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=11610 Whether you read The Iliad in the original Greek, in an academic translation, or watched Brad Pitt and Eric Bana glisten as they warred on a sandy beach what everyone knows of the Trojan War is the men. And why not? It’s a story of men told by men. Author Pat Barker is having none […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/09/the-silence-of-the-girls/feed/ 0 11610 Last Bit of Summer: Mini-Reviews https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/08/last-bit-of-summer-mini-reviews/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/08/last-bit-of-summer-mini-reviews/#comments Mon, 27 Aug 2018 07:14:28 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=11296 This week is it—the last bit of summer. At least, the traditional vacation aspects of it, because who knows how much longer summer-like weather will last? Either way, I’m ready for it. The past two weeks have been unpleasant, with an air quality rating in Seattle worse than Beijing’s thanks to wildfires in Canada and […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/08/last-bit-of-summer-mini-reviews/feed/ 2 11296 Millennial vs. Millennial: Mini-Reviews https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/04/millennial-vs-millennial-mini-reviews/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/04/millennial-vs-millennial-mini-reviews/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2018 07:39:55 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=10483   Once upon a time (oh-so many decades ago), Baby Boomers captured the attention of writers. That time is waning as the next fascination generation crowds at their aging heels. But if Boomers seemed to be a relatively homogenous group, Millennials are not so easily pegged. Recently, I read two novels that staked their ground […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/04/millennial-vs-millennial-mini-reviews/feed/ 4 10483 I Was Anastasia: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/03/i-was-anastasia-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/03/i-was-anastasia-a-novel/#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2018 07:57:53 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=10350 I Was Anastasia by Ariel Lawhon achieves quite a feat—taking a subject about which there is no longer any mystery and making it mysterious. Thanks to DNA testing, it is now known that Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia died with the rest of her family in the summer of 1918, slaughtered by the Communists in […]

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