Iraq Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/iraq/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sun, 30 Dec 2018 19:55:08 +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 Iraq Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/iraq/ 32 32 38398750 Dark Fiction: Waiting for Eden https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/12/dark-fiction-waiting-for-eden/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/12/dark-fiction-waiting-for-eden/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2018 08:38:03 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=11893   Much of Elliot Ackerman’s Waiting for Eden takes place in a hospital room. A room where Eden Malcolm has been in a coma for three years. He was a young man so full of life that He treated the whole world, too, like it was a series of cliffs that existed for no other […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/12/dark-fiction-waiting-for-eden/feed/ 13 11893 Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/02/asymmetry-lisa-halliday/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/02/asymmetry-lisa-halliday/#comments Wed, 14 Feb 2018 08:06:03 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=10109   Asymmetry is a novel split into three separate and seemingly unrelated parts. I know, sounds like short stories, but there is supposed to be a thread connecting the three. The question is whether I was able to find it or not. The first section is Folly, wherein 27-year-old Alice meets Pulitzer Prize winning author, […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/02/asymmetry-lisa-halliday/feed/ 7 10109 It’s Not You, It’s Me: Mini-Reviews https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/06/its-not-you-its-me/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/06/its-not-you-its-me/#comments Fri, 24 Jun 2016 07:16:05 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=6598   Happy summer, book lovers! I hope you’re all getting to enjoy nice weather, sunshine, and, of course, some great reading. In an effort to help, I’m back with three books that left me thinking It’s Not You, It’s Me.   If Whitney Terrell’s goal in his novel The Good Lieutenant is to mimic warfare, […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/06/its-not-you-its-me/feed/ 12 6598 Cara Hoffman- A Letter https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/04/cara-hoffman-letter/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/04/cara-hoffman-letter/#comments Fri, 04 Apr 2014 07:58:59 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=2700 By and large this blog is composed of book reviews, author events, anything bookish. I don’t extend myself into the political or economic arenas because I’m not always savvy enough to know what I’m talking about. But sometimes I do raise my head from a book long enough to see something I believe needs to […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/04/cara-hoffman-letter/feed/ 5 2700 Be Safe I Love You https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/04/be-safe-i-love-you/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/04/be-safe-i-love-you/#comments Wed, 02 Apr 2014 07:39:18 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=2696 Even before she decides to go to Iraq Lauren Clay is fighting a war. A war created by two parents who, for different reasons, are unable to care for her and her nine-year-old brother, Daniel. Instead, Lauren is left, at age 14 to take care of herself, her brother and her father, who lies in […]

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