relationships Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/relationships/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Fri, 20 Oct 2023 15:23:09 +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 relationships Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/relationships/ 32 32 38398750 Talking at Night https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/10/talking-at-night/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/10/talking-at-night/#comments Fri, 20 Oct 2023 07:37:34 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17963 Talking at Night is a love story about Rosie and Will, two young people impacted by a guilt-inducing tragedy when they’re in their teens, but whose feelings for each other continue to push them together and pull them apart throughout their lives. The two couldn’t be more different. Will is the rebellious sort—no interest in […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/10/talking-at-night/feed/ 2 17963 One Italian Summer https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/03/one-italian-summer/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/03/one-italian-summer/#comments Fri, 11 Mar 2022 05:24:45 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16561 When Katy’s mother Carol dies, she is consumed with grief. Not only was her mother her best friend, but they had planned a trip of special importance. A month in Positano, Italy a place Carol visited decades ago in the summer before she met her husband and began the life Katy knows. Carol made all […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/03/one-italian-summer/feed/ 3 16561 Sorrow and Bliss: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/05/sorrow-and-bliss-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/05/sorrow-and-bliss-a-novel/#comments Wed, 05 May 2021 04:24:16 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15656 Sorrow and Bliss opens after Martha and her husband Patrick have returned from a party he threw for her 40th birthday. It did not go well and two days later Patrick says he’s leaving. It’s both an ending and a beginning for Martha as she grapples with what to do next in a life that […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/05/sorrow-and-bliss-a-novel/feed/ 10 15656 Love in Case of Emergency https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/04/love-in-case-of-emergency/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/04/love-in-case-of-emergency/#comments Fri, 16 Apr 2021 04:45:46 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15590 Can I just say I love this cover and leave it at that? Probably not, but I really love this cover and wanted to feel the same way about the book. This is also an admission on my part that I don’t have a magical formula or innate gift for picking outstanding reading. Sometimes, I’m […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/04/love-in-case-of-emergency/feed/ 2 15590 Backlist Beauties: Mini-Reviews https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/10/backlist-beauties-mini-reviews/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/10/backlist-beauties-mini-reviews/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2020 04:11:23 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15002 Last week I was supposed to start reading another fall new release novel. It’s even one I’m looking forward to, Ken Follett’s The Evening and the Morning, but the thought of 900 pages made my brain hurt. It’s a sad truth—my attention span lately has shrunk to an amount of time easily measured by counting […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/10/backlist-beauties-mini-reviews/feed/ 2 15002 Ask Again, Yes https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/11/ask-again-yes/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/11/ask-again-yes/#comments Mon, 25 Nov 2019 08:21:05 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13436 This post may include Amazon links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Ask Again, Yes is a complex family story that begins with the lightest of connections. Brian Stanhope and Francis Gleeson are two young men from Ireland who begin their careers as cops together in New York City. They move to the […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/11/ask-again-yes/feed/ 8 13436 The Dutch House by Ann Patchett https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/10/the-dutch-house-by-ann-patchett/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/10/the-dutch-house-by-ann-patchett/#comments Mon, 07 Oct 2019 07:40:52 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13297 Maeve and Danny live of a life of contrasts. Their house is by far the grandest in their neighborhood and money is not something they ever have to think about, but their mother left when Danny was only three and Maeve ten. Their father is a taciturn man who excels at real estate, but shows […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/10/the-dutch-house-by-ann-patchett/feed/ 14 13297 Maybe You Should Talk to Someone https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/09/maybe-you-should-talk-to-someone/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/09/maybe-you-should-talk-to-someone/#comments Mon, 09 Sep 2019 07:49:30 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13216 Sometimes a book comes my way not from reviews or recommendations, but from simple proximity—I see it at the library and decide to read it. Very often these are some of my favorite books. This is the case with Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb. It’s her account of being a therapist and […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/09/maybe-you-should-talk-to-someone/feed/ 12 13216 The Most Fun We Ever Had: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/the-most-fun-we-ever-had-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/the-most-fun-we-ever-had-a-novel/#comments Mon, 08 Jul 2019 07:53:36 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12946 Where to begin about The Most Fun We Ever Had? To be concise: It’s a sweeping story of a Chicago couple who meet and marry in 1970s and go on to have four daughters. But that’s like telling someone the Grand Canyon is a big hole in the ground and not the way I work. […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/the-most-fun-we-ever-had-a-novel/feed/ 7 12946 Normal People by Sally Rooney https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/04/normal-people-by-sally-rooney/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/04/normal-people-by-sally-rooney/#comments Mon, 15 Apr 2019 07:08:42 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12547 Marianne and Connell live very different lives in the same small Irish town. She has a wealthy family and a big house, but is an outcast at their school, while he is everyone’s best friend, a natural athlete, a good student. His mother cleans her family’s mansion, so he comes over every afternoon to pick […]

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