Manhattan Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/manhattan/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:47:23 +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 Manhattan Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/manhattan/ 32 32 38398750 Workhorse: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/01/workhorse-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/01/workhorse-a-novel/#respond Mon, 12 Jan 2026 08:41:27 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19460 Clo Harmon is a 25-year-old assistant at a fashion magazine. She’s a workhorse—eager, bright, hardworking, but with no fashion pedigree. Meaning she will never achieve her dream of being an editor because those jobs only go to the show horses—wealthy, skinny girls with Ivy League degrees and all the right connections.  What’s an ambitious, but […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/01/workhorse-a-novel/feed/ 0 19460 Witness 8 by Steve Cavanagh https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/03/witness-8-by-steve-cavanagh/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/03/witness-8-by-steve-cavanagh/#comments Wed, 26 Mar 2025 07:05:43 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19056 I’m switching gears from heart-warming to heart-pounding with Witness 8 the latest in the Eddie Flynn mystery series. When the body of a wealthy woman is found dead in her home in an exclusive Manhattan neighborhood it leaves the rest of the neighbors stunned that such a thing could happen. That the murderer turns out […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/03/witness-8-by-steve-cavanagh/feed/ 2 19056 The Leftover Woman by Jean Kwok https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/10/the-leftover-woman-by-jean-kwok/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/10/the-leftover-woman-by-jean-kwok/#respond Fri, 13 Oct 2023 07:22:41 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17937 From the time she was a child Jasmine has known she was leftover. Born in a small village in China during the years of its restrictive One Child Policy she wouldn’t even be alive if her twin sibling hadn’t been a boy. Marriage could have been her way out, but instead, in Jean Kwok’s new […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/10/the-leftover-woman-by-jean-kwok/feed/ 0 17937 June Reading Recap https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/07/june-reading-recap/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/07/june-reading-recap/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2022 04:08:27 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16806 June. What a month. Normally, this is a recap of my reading, but no matter how I try to stick to the subject of books my brain refuses to cooperate. By this time next week we’ll be starting the 2,200 mile trip from Ann Arbor to Seattle. The unending list of what needs to be […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/07/june-reading-recap/feed/ 4 16806 Cover Story: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/04/cover-story-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/04/cover-story-a-novel/#comments Mon, 18 Apr 2022 04:44:56 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16656 It’s a happy Monday—I’ve  got an easy 5-star, fun, tear-through novel that I literally started and finished in one day because I couldn’t stop reading. Cover Story, based on the Anna Sorokin scandal, is just that good. In it, a young writer, Lora, finds herself flunking out of NYU just before getting a summer internship […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/04/cover-story-a-novel/feed/ 4 16656 Metropolitan Stories by Christine Coulson https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/04/metropolitan-stories-by-christine-coulson/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/04/metropolitan-stories-by-christine-coulson/#respond Mon, 19 Apr 2021 04:18:42 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15595 Regardless of where you live, if you love the art and artifacts of human history, then you’re probably familiar with Metropolitan Museum of Art. When I lived in NYC it was one of my favorite places to go and explore. Where you could sit on a bench for as long as you wanted and look […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/04/metropolitan-stories-by-christine-coulson/feed/ 0 15595 Anna K: A Novel by Jenny Lee https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/07/anna-k-a-novel-by-jenny-lee/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/07/anna-k-a-novel-by-jenny-lee/#respond Fri, 03 Jul 2020 04:17:00 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=14535 One of the staples of fiction is the modern retelling of a classic novel. It’s a bit dicey—sometimes it works and other times it goes awry. Anna K is Jenny Lee’s reimagining of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina—a sweeping 800-page saga about a married woman and mother who falls in love with a debonair count, giving up […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/07/anna-k-a-novel-by-jenny-lee/feed/ 0 14535 A Well-Behaved Woman https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/10/a-well-behaved-woman/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/10/a-well-behaved-woman/#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2018 07:04:41 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=11723 The Vanderbilt family is one of the great success stories in American history. Author Therese Fowler picks up the line with the third generation in her novel, A Well-Behaved Woman. The woman in question is Alva Smith—a 21-year-old with a perfect pedigree, but no money. Teetering, in fact, on the edge of outright poverty, until […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/10/a-well-behaved-woman/feed/ 8 11723 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 When Life Gives You Lululemons https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/06/when-life-gives-you-lululemons/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/06/when-life-gives-you-lululemons/#comments Mon, 04 Jun 2018 07:19:35 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=10758 Just when you thought The Devil Wears Prada series was finished, author Lauren Weisberger is back. Previously, she visited Andi in her new incarnation as a magazine editor in Revenge Wears Prada (which I liked, not loved).  Now, in When Life Gives You Lululemons, it is the snarky fashionista Emily who takes center stage. Which, […]

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