Penguin Press Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/penguin-press/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Fri, 14 Jun 2019 15:56:06 +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 Penguin Press Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/penguin-press/ 32 32 38398750 On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/06/on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/06/on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous/#comments Fri, 14 Jun 2019 07:42:29 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12859 On Wednesday I reviewed a book that I  liked, but thought others might find too odd. I have the same hesitation today, but for a different reason. Ocean Vuong’s debut novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is itself a thing of beauty. His writing is poetical prose. Not surprising, because he is a poet. The […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/06/on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous/feed/ 6 12859 Little Fires Everywhere https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/09/little-fires-everywhere/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/09/little-fires-everywhere/#comments Mon, 11 Sep 2017 07:12:19 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=9299   In her outstanding debut novel, Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng delicately exposed the family tragedy that can result from unrealistic expectations and the insecurity of trying to fit into a new culture. In her newest novel, Little Fires Everywhere, the Richardson family has no such problem. They are picture postcard perfection, happily […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/09/little-fires-everywhere/feed/ 8 9299 The Portable Veblen https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/02/the-portable-veblen/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/02/the-portable-veblen/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2016 09:01:02 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=5918   To say that The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie gets nutty is not a derogatory comment because Veblen, the main character, is obsessed with squirrels. As in talk to them, think they’re talking to her, anthropomorphize them. Her fiancé Paul is not as fond of them, but as a research neurologist who has created […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/02/the-portable-veblen/feed/ 8 5918 The Star Side of Bird Hill https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/07/star-side-of-bird-hill/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/07/star-side-of-bird-hill/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2015 07:13:54 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=4276   It’s time for summer vacation but rather than spend it at home in Brooklyn Dionne and her sister Phaedra have been shipped off to Barbados, which may sound like paradise to many of us, but not for Dionne. At sixteen this was going to be the summer she broke out of childhood and into […]

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