Harper Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/harper/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sun, 05 Apr 2020 22:01:41 +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 Harper Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/harper/ 32 32 38398750 Valentine: A Novel by Elizabeth Wetmore https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/04/valentine-a-novel-by-elizabeth-wetmore/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/04/valentine-a-novel-by-elizabeth-wetmore/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2020 04:18:55 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=14132 When you encounter a scene like the one that opens Elizabeth Wetmore’s novel, Valentine, and the words …she imagines him facedown in the dust, lips and cheeks scoured by sand, his thirst relieved by only the blood in his mouth. sear themselves on your brain you know you are in for high-intensity reading and immersion […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/04/valentine-a-novel-by-elizabeth-wetmore/feed/ 8 14132 The Gimmicks: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/01/the-gimmicks-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/01/the-gimmicks-a-novel/#respond Wed, 22 Jan 2020 05:01:21 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13734 I didn’t plan this, but I’m back today with another unusual book (Monday’s review). The Gimmicks is about two teenage brothers in Armenia in the 1970s. One is a giant, standing over 6’6” tall, while the other is a competitive backgammon player. The novel moves between their lives and the life of a former pro-wrestling manager […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/01/the-gimmicks-a-novel/feed/ 0 13734 The Dutch House by Ann Patchett https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/10/the-dutch-house-by-ann-patchett/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/10/the-dutch-house-by-ann-patchett/#comments Mon, 07 Oct 2019 07:40:52 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13297 Maeve and Danny live of a life of contrasts. Their house is by far the grandest in their neighborhood and money is not something they ever have to think about, but their mother left when Danny was only three and Maeve ten. Their father is a taciturn man who excels at real estate, but shows […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/10/the-dutch-house-by-ann-patchett/feed/ 14 13297 How to Be Famous by Caitlin Moran https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/how-to-be-famous-by-caitlin-moran/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/how-to-be-famous-by-caitlin-moran/#comments Wed, 10 Jul 2019 07:57:24 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12955 Sometimes, when I enjoyed a book I like to give it a bit of renewed love when it comes out in paperback. This week it’s How to Be Famous—a feisty hot pepper of a novel from Caitlin Moran. Ready to be re-invigorated about being female?! This is your reading… When we left Johanna Morrigan (aka […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/how-to-be-famous-by-caitlin-moran/feed/ 2 12955 Cygnet by Season Butler https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/06/cygnet-by-season-butler/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/06/cygnet-by-season-butler/#comments Mon, 24 Jun 2019 07:44:01 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12883 The narrator of Season Butler’s debut novel, Cygnet, is known as the Kid. She’s 17 and her parents have dropped her off at her grandmother’s house on an island off the coast of New Hampshire to live while they try and get their lives together. It’s supposed to be for a few weeks, a month […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/06/cygnet-by-season-butler/feed/ 2 12883 Mothers’ Week: A Woman is No Man https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/05/mothers-week-a-woman-is-no-man/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/05/mothers-week-a-woman-is-no-man/#comments Wed, 08 May 2019 07:29:49 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12420 It’s easy to become outraged about the treatment of women in the Muslim world when it takes place far away, as in the memoir Daring to Drive or fiction like Song of a Captive Bird or The Pearl that Broke its Shell. It’s ingrained through centuries of custom and dogma, but debut author Etaf Rum shreds any […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/05/mothers-week-a-woman-is-no-man/feed/ 2 12420 The Better Sister by Alafair Burke https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/04/the-better-sister-by-alafair-burke/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/04/the-better-sister-by-alafair-burke/#comments Thu, 18 Apr 2019 07:54:54 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12576 Chloe Taylor is on top of her game. She is the editor of a small but prestigious women’s magazine, has just been honored in the field of journalism, and lives the glamorous life in NYC with her handsome lawyer husband, Adam, and her stepson Ethan. It’s all oh-so lovely except for one small fact she […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/04/the-better-sister-by-alafair-burke/feed/ 5 12576 When You Read This https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/03/when-you-read-this/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/03/when-you-read-this/#comments Mon, 04 Mar 2019 08:10:35 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12364 Here’s a spoiler: Iris Massey is dead. She died of cancer at 33, leaving behind an obstreperous older sister, Jade; a narcissistic abusive mother; a weight lifter boyfriend, Richie, and Simon, her boss at his PR agency. Oh, and pages from a blog she wrote up while she was dying. It’s discovered eight months after […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/03/when-you-read-this/feed/ 10 12364 Come With Me https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/12/come-with-me/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/12/come-with-me/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2018 08:34:06 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=11954 I’d prefer not to end a strong reading week on a negative note, but have you ever read a book that feels like a case of false advertising? As in, if you had paid for it you would have demanded a full refund? That’s how I feel about Come With Me. Here’s the Goodreads synopsis: […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/12/come-with-me/feed/ 5 11954 Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/10/unsheltered-barbara-kingsolver/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/10/unsheltered-barbara-kingsolver/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2018 07:20:32 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=11741   Willa and her husband Iano are stuck in a situation that strikes fear in the heart of anyone in midlife—she’s newly unemployed and the college where he had tenure closed and he’s been forced to take an entry-level at a small school in Philadelphia. His father is a morbidly obese, deaf, virulent racist who […]

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