The Gilmore Guide to Books

Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time

Happy Birthday, Audrey Hepburn

A beautiful woman inside and out and a reader to boot! What's not to love? She would have been 85 today. In her own words: "I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is ... Read More...

Sunday Sentence: Astonish Me

Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.     He is still proud of Harry, but the pride is something different than it used to be: it has been cut away from his pride in himself and left to stand on its own.  ... Read More...

Sunday Sentence: Kinder Than Solitude

Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen. The key to success, in his parents’ opinion, was the capacity to selectively live one’s life, to forget what one ought not to remember, to untangle oneself from lesser and irrelevant others, and to recognize the unnecessariness of ... Read More...

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