New York City Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/new-york-city/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Thu, 09 Mar 2023 23:11:58 +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 New York City Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/new-york-city/ 32 32 38398750 All the Beauty in the World https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/03/all-the-beauty-in-the-world/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/03/all-the-beauty-in-the-world/#comments Fri, 10 Mar 2023 08:42:37 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17348 Patrick Bringley is in his 20s and working at his dream job at The New Yorker magazine when a tragedy strikes his family that leaves him unable to give the job what it requires. His grief is such that he quits, looking for a way to make money, but also to escape. All the Beauty […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/03/all-the-beauty-in-the-world/feed/ 4 17348 Deliberate Cruelty https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/11/deliberate-cruelty/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/11/deliberate-cruelty/#respond Fri, 25 Nov 2022 08:26:25 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17098 I’ve always had a fascination with high society and the people who chronicle it. Fiction like The Swans of Fifth Avenue  and memoirs like Dilettante are some of my favorite reading. In keeping with that theme, but straying from the ‘giving thanks’ aspect of the week, I’m back with a bit of wealthy people behaving badly […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/11/deliberate-cruelty/feed/ 0 17098 The Cloisters: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/11/the-cloisters-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/11/the-cloisters-a-novel/#comments Wed, 16 Nov 2022 08:10:10 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17077 The Cloisters by Katy Hays has a catnip premise for readers like me: A studious young woman graduates from college and moves to the big city to get away from her sad, small-town life. In this case the girl is Ann and the city is Manhattan where she’s got a summer internship at The Cloisters, […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/11/the-cloisters-a-novel/feed/ 2 17077 Dilettante: True Tales of Excess, Triumph, and Disaster https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/03/dilettante-true-tales-of-excess-triumph-and-disaster/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/03/dilettante-true-tales-of-excess-triumph-and-disaster/#comments Mon, 14 Mar 2022 04:09:04 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16570 Good morning! Sometimes I read a book and love it so much that I agonize over the words to review it. Then, there is the more unusual experience of a book that is such easy, delicious reading words are fighting their way out of my brain and onto the page. That’s the case with today’s […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/03/dilettante-true-tales-of-excess-triumph-and-disaster/feed/ 2 16570 The Bestseller: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/08/the-bestseller-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/08/the-bestseller-a-novel/#comments Thu, 05 Aug 2021 04:38:59 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15991 The Bestseller had two things going for it when I saw it in my library online catalog. One, it was Available Now so not hold list to wait through and two, the author’s name, Olivia Goldsmith, sounded vaguely familiar. Sure enough, she was a popular writer in the 80s and 90s and I’d read several of […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/08/the-bestseller-a-novel/feed/ 4 15991 The Personal Librarian: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/07/the-personal-librarian-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/07/the-personal-librarian-a-novel/#comments Fri, 16 Jul 2021 04:30:20 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15931 It’s no secret that novels about books, book stores, libraries, or librarians are my kryptonite. I love them and can’t resist them, despite the fact that my success with them is mixed at best. So, it was with some trepidation that I decided to read The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Murray. I […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/07/the-personal-librarian-a-novel/feed/ 6 15931 Where the Grass is Green and the Girls are Pretty https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/06/where-the-grass-is-green/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/06/where-the-grass-is-green/#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2021 04:09:39 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15723 It was only a matter of time before the Ivy League college admissions scandal was memorialized in fiction. I was happy to see that the first responder is a favorite contemporary chronicler, Lauren Weisberger, of The Devil Wears Prada fame. She’s back with Where the Grass is Green and the Girls Are Pretty and it’s exactly what […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/06/where-the-grass-is-green/feed/ 2 15723 The Boys’ Club: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/08/the-boys-club-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/08/the-boys-club-a-novel/#comments Mon, 17 Aug 2020 04:15:52 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=14707 Klasko & Fitch is a massive law firm where the best of the best work, so Alex Vogel is thrilled to be hired there. When she learns the most powerful and lucrative group in the firm is Mergers & Acquisitions, she signs up. She’s energized, not intimidated, because Alex always likes to win. The Boys’ […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/08/the-boys-club-a-novel/feed/ 2 14707 Everyone Knows How Much I Love You https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/06/everyone-knows-how-much-i-love-you/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/06/everyone-knows-how-much-i-love-you/#respond Fri, 26 Jun 2020 04:40:51 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=14511 On Wednesday I reviewed a novel about female friendship that was unsettling because of the drama in the character’s lives, but managed to resonate in its portrayal of the many phases and nuances of long-term friendships. I went into today’s novel with the same hopes, but was deeply disappointed. I debated whether to even write […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/06/everyone-knows-how-much-i-love-you/feed/ 0 14511 You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/03/you-are-not-alone-by-greer-hendricks/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/03/you-are-not-alone-by-greer-hendricks/#comments Fri, 13 Mar 2020 04:54:31 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=14000 Shay is not where she thought she’d be at 31. She thought she was getting promoted at work and got laid off. She thought she and her roommate, Sean were moving out of the friend zone and into something more, but now he’s got a girlfriend. And now, right in front of her eyes, a […]

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