Germany Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/germany/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Mon, 03 Sep 2018 02:25:20 +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 Germany Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/germany/ 32 32 38398750 The Women in the Castle https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/04/the-women-in-the-castle/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/04/the-women-in-the-castle/#comments Fri, 21 Apr 2017 07:00:48 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=8630   At a German estate in 1938 a summer party turns serious when a group of men discuss their determination to stop Hitler from his ascent to power.  Marianne von Lingenfels is the wife of the group’s leader and she makes a promise to take care of the wives and children of the men in […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/04/the-women-in-the-castle/feed/ 3 8630 5 Star Week: All the Light We Cannot See https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/04/5-star-week-all-the-light-we-cannot-see/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/04/5-star-week-all-the-light-we-cannot-see/#comments Wed, 12 Apr 2017 07:32:48 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=8594   I may be writing this review to watch myself write because virtually every reader I know has already read Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See. Ostensibly, my excuse is, this Pulitzer Prize winning novel originally published in 2014 is being re-released in paperback. But really? WHY did it take me this long […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/04/5-star-week-all-the-light-we-cannot-see/feed/ 16 8594 City of Women https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2012/08/city-of-women/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2012/08/city-of-women/#respond Tue, 07 Aug 2012 07:24:10 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=305 The grandpa just stares backward at a world that no longer exists, or forward to a world beyond his comprehension. For Sigrid Schröder her life in 1943 Berlin is one of grinding tedium, working days as a stenographer and spending nights in a small apartment with her mother-in-law and withdrawn husband. Her only escape is […]

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