Putnam Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/putnam/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Thu, 14 Jan 2021 21:28:19 +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 Putnam Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/putnam/ 32 32 38398750 Talk to Me: A Novel by John Kenney https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/02/talk-to-me-a-novel-by-john-kenney/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/02/talk-to-me-a-novel-by-john-kenney/#comments Mon, 10 Feb 2020 05:52:04 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13838 My end of January and beginning of February reading has been less than exciting as evidenced by my Friday post. I thought rather than write a lukewarm review of book that was only OK, I’d give some renewed attention to a book from 2019 that I thoroughly enjoyed. Talk to Me came out in paperback […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/02/talk-to-me-a-novel-by-john-kenney/feed/ 2 13838 Such a Fun Age: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/01/such-a-fun-age-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/01/such-a-fun-age-a-novel/#comments Fri, 24 Jan 2020 05:47:16 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13741 Emira Tucker is struggling with adulthood. She’s not quite sure what she wants to do. The only job she enjoys is babysitting two-year-old Briar. So, when Briar’s mother calls on a Saturday night asking if Emira can come and get the little girl she says yes. From there things in Such a Fun Age get […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/01/such-a-fun-age-a-novel/feed/ 4 13741 The Reckless Oath We Made https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/09/the-reckless-oath-we-made/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/09/the-reckless-oath-we-made/#comments Wed, 11 Sep 2019 07:16:57 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13124 Zee’s life has never been easy (to begin with, her full name is Zhorzha), but now it’s coming completely unraveled. She left her last worthless boyfriend after she crashed his motorcycle and broke her hip, she traffics marijuana because she lost her job after the accident, and she’s living with her sister LaReigne and her […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/09/the-reckless-oath-we-made/feed/ 8 13124 If You Want to Make God Laugh: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/if-you-want-to-make-god-laugh/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/if-you-want-to-make-god-laugh/#comments Mon, 22 Jul 2019 07:33:43 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12994 Delilah hasn’t been home in forty years, but when she arrives on her family’s farm in South Africa it’s to find her sister Ruth drunk on the couch and getting ready to sell the place. The sisters are polar opposites. Literally. Delilah left the family at 17 to become a nun and when that didn’t […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/if-you-want-to-make-god-laugh/feed/ 8 12994 After the End by Clare Mackintosh https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/after-the-end-by-clare-mackintosh/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/after-the-end-by-clare-mackintosh/#comments Mon, 01 Jul 2019 07:34:54 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12908 There are many unimaginable things in life, but one of the worst is being the parent of a dying child. Max and Pip are a couple in love who adore their son Dylan. He’s a happy child, but developmentally a bit slow—he doesn’t talk much and falls down more than most children. Shortly before his […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/after-the-end-by-clare-mackintosh/feed/ 10 12908 Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/04/bull-mountain-brian-panowich/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/04/bull-mountain-brian-panowich/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2019 07:59:36 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12628 The first words that come to mind when I think about Brian Panowich’s debut novel Bull Mountain, are: blown away. Every day for a week after finishing it whenever I thought of it, I shook my head. It’s that good. It’s the story of three generations of the Burroughs family living in north Georgia. For […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/04/bull-mountain-brian-panowich/feed/ 10 12628 Talk to Me by John Kenney https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/01/talk-to-me-by-john-kenney/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/01/talk-to-me-by-john-kenney/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2019 08:05:49 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12121 It’s no secret that I’m not a fan of the rich, entitled white man’s club, but what happens when the man is the face of American network news? A man watched and admired for over twenty years? Who, on his 59th birthday has a really bad day and is videoed screaming at a young woman […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/01/talk-to-me-by-john-kenney/feed/ 2 12121 Dark Fiction: The Line That Held Us https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/12/dark-fiction-the-line-that-held-us/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/12/dark-fiction-the-line-that-held-us/#comments Wed, 05 Dec 2018 08:07:22 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=11900   I hadn’t planned on a week of reviews about dark (or difficult) fiction, but realized that’s where my reading had gone after finishing David Joy’s The Line That Held Us. It’s the story of Darl Moody, who while poaching on a neighbor’s land, shoots and kills another man. The man he kills is the […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/12/dark-fiction-the-line-that-held-us/feed/ 9 11900 Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/08/where-the-crawdads-sing-by-delia-owens/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/08/where-the-crawdads-sing-by-delia-owens/#comments Wed, 15 Aug 2018 07:26:51 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=11243 On Monday I mentioned having a book hangover and Delia Owens’s debut, Where the Crawdads Sing, is the culprit. What is worse is that I tried to read my way out of it and got mired in overwrought, pretentious prose that pushed all of Crawdads beauty out of my head and filled it with a […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/08/where-the-crawdads-sing-by-delia-owens/feed/ 18 11243 The Banker’s Wife by Cristina Alger https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/07/bankers-wife-cristina-alger/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/07/bankers-wife-cristina-alger/#comments Wed, 25 Jul 2018 07:42:49 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=11001 Matthew is a successful young financier so when he has the opportunity to move to Geneva for his job he and his new wife Annabel jump at it. It will be a short-term adventure after which they can return to the States and start a family. And the money! So much of it, beyond anything […]

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