Random House Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/random-house/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Mon, 09 Dec 2019 14:38:10 +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 Random House Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/random-house/ 32 32 38398750 Tell the Wolves I’m Home https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/12/tell-the-wolves-im-home/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/12/tell-the-wolves-im-home/#comments Mon, 09 Dec 2019 05:36:26 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13513   You could try and believe what you wanted, but it never worked. Your brain and your heart decided what you were going to believe and that was that. June is a bit of a loner who feels safer in the woods than she does around people. She’s never had friends her own age, but […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/12/tell-the-wolves-im-home/feed/ 8 13513 Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/10/olive-again-by-elizabeth-strout/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/10/olive-again-by-elizabeth-strout/#respond Thu, 24 Oct 2019 07:10:10 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13309 On Monday I reviewed Olive Kitteridge in preparation for today’s review of Elizabeth Strout’s sequel, Olive, Again. I’ll start by saying these books stand alone. Olive is Olive is Olive. She’s a decade older, her relationship with her son is still virtually non-existent, but there’s a new man in her life. There’s also the tiniest […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/10/olive-again-by-elizabeth-strout/feed/ 0 13309 Quichotte by Salman Rushdie https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/09/quichotte-by-salman-rushdie/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/09/quichotte-by-salman-rushdie/#comments Mon, 23 Sep 2019 07:26:44 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13240 Sam DuChamp is a so-so spy novelist when he gets the idea to write a novel based on Don Quixote. Quichotte is born. He’s a 70-year-old former pharmaceutical sales rep whose life has been reduced to watching lots of television. In doing so he has fallen in love with the beautiful young star, Miss Salma […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/09/quichotte-by-salman-rushdie/feed/ 2 13240 The Age of Miracles https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/08/the-age-of-miracles/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/08/the-age-of-miracles/#comments Wed, 07 Aug 2019 07:56:46 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13084 It isn’t noticed at first, but on October 6th in some unspecified year of the not-so-distant future the scientific community notifies the world that Earth’s rotation is slowing and that a day has grown to last almost 25 hours. Panic erupts around the globe as people absurdly believe they can run somewhere where it won’t […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/08/the-age-of-miracles/feed/ 6 13084 We Went to the Woods https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/06/we-went-to-the-woods/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/06/we-went-to-the-woods/#comments Fri, 28 Jun 2019 07:57:35 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12899 Fresh out of college, Mackenzie signs up to be on a millennial-only competition reality TV show. It goes very wrong, she makes a big mistake, and is duly excoriated everywhere. When she meets a tight-knit group of four friends who are as disillusioned with the world as she is, they begin fantasizing what it would […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/06/we-went-to-the-woods/feed/ 9 12899 Becoming by Michelle Obama https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/01/becoming-by-michelle-obama/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/01/becoming-by-michelle-obama/#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2019 08:50:12 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12174 Leave it to Michelle Obama, an untested writer, to achieve something that has never happened in my reading history. I finished her memoir, Becoming, on January 15th and had no hesitation in ranking it 5 stars. This makes it not only the first time I’ve found a 5-star book in January, but the only time […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/01/becoming-by-michelle-obama/feed/ 20 12174 The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/01/the-dreamers-by-karen-thompson-walker/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/01/the-dreamers-by-karen-thompson-walker/#comments Wed, 16 Jan 2019 08:20:16 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12129 The Dreamers opens with one of the greatest sources of angst for college girls—dorm life. Mei’s roommate, Kara, is wildly popular after only a month at school, while Mei cannot find her way into any social group. She’s left on the sidelines until it is Kara who slips away, by falling asleep one night…and not […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/01/the-dreamers-by-karen-thompson-walker/feed/ 4 12129 From the Corner of the Oval: A Memoir https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/10/from-the-corner-of-the-oval-a-memoir/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/10/from-the-corner-of-the-oval-a-memoir/#comments Fri, 19 Oct 2018 07:36:57 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=11735   It may sound like fiction, but it’s fact: Beck Dorey-Stein answered a Craigslist ad and got a job working as a stenographer at the White House.  She was there for Barack Obama’s second term as president and in her memoir From the Corner of the Oval she shares her experiences of being the least […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/10/from-the-corner-of-the-oval-a-memoir/feed/ 6 11735 Quiet Summer Reading: The Garden Party https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/07/quiet-summer-reading-garden-party/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/07/quiet-summer-reading-garden-party/#comments Fri, 20 Jul 2018 07:40:32 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=10952 Summer is fun and light and for a lot of people, me included, my reading turns the same way. I want thrillers, chick-lit, humor. But just like anything else in life, too much of the same thing, even when it’s good, can make me cranky. Or just a bit manic. Fast reading=hyper brain and that’s […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/07/quiet-summer-reading-garden-party/feed/ 4 10952 Summer Fun Non-Fiction: Mini-Reviews https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/06/summer-fun-non-fiction-mini-reviews/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/06/summer-fun-non-fiction-mini-reviews/#comments Mon, 25 Jun 2018 07:19:44 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=10857 As you well know I’m not a big non-fiction reader, but between friends’ recommendations and my library’s awesome Peak Picks program (brand new releases available without a hold list), I came across these three books that covered all my non-fiction needs.     I have always cringed at movie critics who say a movie “made […]

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