Scout Press Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/scout-press/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sun, 02 Feb 2020 23:56:51 +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 Scout Press Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/scout-press/ 32 32 38398750 When We Were Vikings: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/02/when-we-were-vikings-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/02/when-we-were-vikings-a-novel/#comments Mon, 03 Feb 2020 05:58:32 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13790 Zelda has just turned 21 and life is good. She lives with her older brother Gert, has a boyfriend, goes to the Community Center for classes, and has a therapist who helps her understand things about people and life that don’t make much sense to her. What makes her happiest is Vikings and she loves […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/01/queenie-a-novel/feed/ 6 13713 Foe: A Novel by Iain Reid https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/09/foe-iain-reid/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/09/foe-iain-reid/#comments Thu, 06 Sep 2018 07:04:50 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=11444 Junior and Henrietta live on a small farm. They are isolated from everyone, but close to each other. When Terrance arrives and tells them that Junior has been selected to participate in a program building a much-needed space community they are puzzled by the news, but accept Terrance’s assurances that it is an amazing opportunity. […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/09/foe-iain-reid/feed/ 14 11444 Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/05/ever-family-bill-clegg/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/05/ever-family-bill-clegg/#comments Wed, 25 May 2016 07:55:58 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=6445 Bill Clegg’s Did You Ever Have a Family was one of my favorite debuts for 2015. It came out last week in paperback so if you missed it last year you need to get after it now. A wonderful novel that lends itself to book club/reading group discussions.   If you take a major event […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/05/ever-family-bill-clegg/feed/ 3 6445 Tuesday Nights in 1980 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/04/tuesday-nights-1980/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/04/tuesday-nights-1980/#comments Mon, 18 Apr 2016 07:49:49 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=6243   When art dealer Winona George throws a fabulous party on New Year’s Eve 1979 to welcome in the 1980s there’s no way of knowing who and what will converge in her art filled apartment in downtown Manhattan. That James Bennett and his wife Marge arrive late is not too surprising—James is an eccentric art […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/04/tuesday-nights-1980/feed/ 9 6243 Did You Ever Have a Family https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/09/did-you-ever-have-a-family/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/09/did-you-ever-have-a-family/#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2015 07:32:06 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=4416   If you take a major event and separate out all the people involved in that event—whether responsible for it or impacted by it, you get wildly divergent impressions about what actually happened. This is what author Bill Clegg does so soulfully in his debut novel, Did You Ever Have a Family. June’s daughter Lolly, […]

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