life Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/life/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Tue, 02 Jan 2024 16:22:39 +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 life Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/life/ 32 32 38398750 Balance https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/balance/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/balance/#comments Tue, 02 Jan 2024 08:50:41 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18097 Hello again, kittens. It’s 2024 and I’m back with a word for the year ahead: Balance. For anyone worrying about me or the blog, thank you for your concern…neither of us is going anywhere. I’ve already financially committed to the blog through November 2025 so let’s just get through 2024. As for me, I’ll keep […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/balance/feed/ 44 18097 The Move: Seattle Edition https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/07/the-move-seattle-edition/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/07/the-move-seattle-edition/#comments Fri, 29 Jul 2022 04:19:45 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16858 I was going to use some soothing and aspirational graphic (like the one from last week), but I decided reality would be best. Here you go, my room, my haven and where I do most of my work. Triple this and you have some idea of the joys of moving and what remains to be […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/03/monday-thoughts/feed/ 29 16581 Under the Whispering Door https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/09/under-the-whispering-door/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/09/under-the-whispering-door/#comments Thu, 23 Sep 2021 04:30:05 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16141 I wasn’t planning on it, but this is going to be a week of reviewing fantastical fiction. On Monday I discussed Cloud Cuckoo Land   and today I’m back with Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune. It’s the story of Wallace Price, an astute and successful lawyer, who also happens to be a fairly terrible […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/09/under-the-whispering-door/feed/ 2 16141 Goodbye For Now https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/10/goodbye-for-now/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/10/goodbye-for-now/#comments Fri, 18 Oct 2019 07:48:31 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13331 Happy Friday, everyone! It’s a big day here for the Gilmores. We’re closing on our Ann Arbor house. Next week the movers arrive and by Thursday I’ll be on the road, driving five days to Michigan. I’ll be crossing the Cascades and the Rockies, as well as the Continental Divide. I’ll even get to check […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/10/goodbye-for-now/feed/ 15 13331 Maybe You Should Talk to Someone https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/09/maybe-you-should-talk-to-someone/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/09/maybe-you-should-talk-to-someone/#comments Mon, 09 Sep 2019 07:49:30 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13216 Sometimes a book comes my way not from reviews or recommendations, but from simple proximity—I see it at the library and decide to read it. Very often these are some of my favorite books. This is the case with Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb. It’s her account of being a therapist and […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/09/maybe-you-should-talk-to-someone/feed/ 12 13216 Not Your Normal Monday https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/08/not-your-normal-monday/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/08/not-your-normal-monday/#comments Mon, 19 Aug 2019 07:17:08 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13114 Good morning, lovely readers! It’s not a normal Monday at The Gilmore Guide to Books because I don’t have a review or a post about what I’m reading or anything to do with books at all. Instead, I’m here to tell you I’m taking a break for a bit. One week, possibly two. I’ve never […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/08/not-your-normal-monday/feed/ 41 13114 The Stranger in the Woods https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/05/the-stranger-in-the-woods/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/05/the-stranger-in-the-woods/#comments Wed, 30 May 2018 07:41:03 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=10724 In case this news slipped by you, as it did me: In 2013 a man was apprehended at a children’s summer camp in northern Maine stealing food and supplies. Not particularly interesting except that when asked by the police he can tell them his birth date, but not how old he is—he has no idea […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/05/the-stranger-in-the-woods/feed/ 5 10724 The Coincidence Makers https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/03/coincidence-makers/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/03/coincidence-makers/#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2018 08:05:26 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=10187   He always loved this warm sensation, which nearly permeated the bone, during the minute preceding the execution of a mission. It was the sensation that came from knowing he was about to reach out a finger and nudge the planet, or the heavens. The knowledge that he would be diverting things from their regular […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/03/coincidence-makers/feed/ 2 10187 When Breath Becomes Air https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/12/when-breath-becomes-air/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/12/when-breath-becomes-air/#comments Wed, 13 Dec 2017 08:28:59 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=9753 Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving suffering, virtue. Paul Kalanithi knew he would split his life in two—the first half […]

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