memoir Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/memoir-2/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Mon, 23 Jun 2025 22:36:04 +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 memoir Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/memoir-2/ 32 32 38398750 Careless People: A Memoir https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/06/careless-people-a-memoir/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/06/careless-people-a-memoir/#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2025 07:47:35 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19165 Careless People is the memoir from Sarah Wynn-Williams who worked at Facebook from 2011-2017 as the global public policy director. A former diplomat and lawyer she joined believing they needed someone with an understanding of foreign diplomacy. She was hired, but for a time, no one knew what to do with her, as Mark Zuckerberg […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/05/april-reading-recap-8/feed/ 2 19130 From Here to the Great Unknown https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/01/from-here-to-the-great-unknown/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/01/from-here-to-the-great-unknown/#comments Fri, 24 Jan 2025 08:48:37 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18928 Those of us outside looking in, mired in our everyday lives, tend to mythologize celebrities and what their lives look like. The greater the star the larger they loom. This is even true for the children of the famous and in that realm, Elvis Presley’s daughter was tabloid fodder from the day she was born. […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/01/from-here-to-the-great-unknown/feed/ 3 18928 More 2024 Reading I Loved https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/more-2024-reading-i-loved/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/more-2024-reading-i-loved/#comments Mon, 30 Dec 2024 08:54:27 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18881 I’m back with more books I loved in 2024. On Friday I shared the fact that almost all my 5-star favorite books for the year were backlist, but I still wanted to give a shoutout to this wide variety of new releases I thought were wonderful. Each provided me with the escape I wanted in […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/more-2024-reading-i-loved/feed/ 4 18881 Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/11/be-ready-when-the-luck-happens-by-ina-garten/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/11/be-ready-when-the-luck-happens-by-ina-garten/#comments Mon, 11 Nov 2024 08:16:41 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18787   I certainly can’t speak for all of you, but I’m still adrift this week trying to deal with feelings of disbelief and dread. I have a tremendous need for comfort in my reading and thankfully, I found it from one woman who on the surface may have appeared shy and self-effacing, but who has […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/11/be-ready-when-the-luck-happens-by-ina-garten/feed/ 2 18787 What I’m Reading Now https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/11/what-im-reading-now/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/11/what-im-reading-now/#comments Tue, 05 Nov 2024 08:33:15 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18761 I’m trying to keep it simple this week with what I’m reading now because there is no knowing where my head is going to be after today. If you’re a regular reader of this blog then you already know where I stand so I won’t belabor the point. Suffice it to say, I’m not sure […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/11/what-im-reading-now/feed/ 14 18761 Rabbit Heart https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/09/rabbit-heart/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/09/rabbit-heart/#comments Wed, 11 Sep 2024 07:14:10 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18631 But doubting our terror is what we’ve been trained to do. Imagine being eight years old and awakened on what should be a normal school morning by your father and older brother sitting on the side of your bed. They tell you that your mother has been kidnapped and your father cries. This is where […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/09/rabbit-heart/feed/ 5 18631 My 8 Favorite Books of 2023 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/my-8-favorite-books-of-2023/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/my-8-favorite-books-of-2023/#comments Thu, 04 Jan 2024 08:20:54 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18102   Finally! Let’s talk reading again, specifically my favorite books of 2023 so we can move onto what lies ahead in 2024. It was an interesting year in that I don’t remember another time when I had this many 5-star nonfiction books. I’m not even sure I’ve ever read so much great nonfiction in one […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/my-8-favorite-books-of-2023/feed/ 12 18102 Exit Interview: The Life and Death of my Ambitious Career https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/10/exit-interview-the-life-and-death-of-my-ambitious-career/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/10/exit-interview-the-life-and-death-of-my-ambitious-career/#comments Wed, 04 Oct 2023 07:30:51 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17912 I’ve been on a roll with amazing memoirs and am thrilled to be back with another one. In Exit Interview Kristi Coulter leaves a secure, but boring marketing job in Ann Arbor, packs up her husband and their dog, and heads to Seattle. It’s 2006 and she’s decided she’s ready for the Wild West of […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/10/exit-interview-the-life-and-death-of-my-ambitious-career/feed/ 5 17912 September Reading Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/10/september-reading-wrap-up-6/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/10/september-reading-wrap-up-6/#comments Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:54:20 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17899 September has come and gone and with it, the last weak bits of Seattle summer. Shorts and tees have been packed away and I’m back to layering clothes and wearing fuzzy socks. No complaints, I love all things soft and warm—in my clothes. In my books, not so much. Still, September was a month of […]

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