teen years Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/teen-years/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sun, 21 Aug 2022 00:38:20 +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 teen years Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/teen-years/ 32 32 38398750 Nightcrawling: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/08/nightcrawling-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/08/nightcrawling-a-novel/#comments Mon, 22 Aug 2022 04:11:46 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16901 At a time when most teenage girls are busy with dating, hanging out with friends, and choosing colleges, 17-year-old Kiara is facing a rent increase that is likely to render her homeless. She lives in a rundown East Oakland apartment with her older brother Marcus. Their father is dead and their mother is in prison. […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/08/nightcrawling-a-novel/feed/ 2 16901 The Falconer by Dana Czapnik https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/02/the-falconer-by-dana-czapnik/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/02/the-falconer-by-dana-czapnik/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2019 08:57:02 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12218 On page two of The Falconer, when Lucy Adler says I met that basketball for the first time only thirty minutes ago but I already know I love it unconditionally, and that it loves me back in a way that no carbon-based life-form ever will. you need to understand you’ve just seen into her very […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/02/the-falconer-by-dana-czapnik/feed/ 8 12218 Ohio by Stephen Markley https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/08/ohio-stephen-markley/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/08/ohio-stephen-markley/#comments Fri, 24 Aug 2018 07:56:36 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=11287 I don’t focus on writing negative reviews, but at the same time, when a new novel is getting a lot of hype, my reading friends want to know what I think about it. In this case the novel is Stephen Markley’s debut, Ohio. If all you need is a one sentence opinion then here you […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/08/ohio-stephen-markley/feed/ 18 11287 March Reading Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/03/march-reading-wrap-up/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/03/march-reading-wrap-up/#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2018 07:53:50 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=10356   Lion or lamb is the big question, both for the weather and March’s reading. In Seattle we often had lion-like winds and cold temps but with the bright sunshine-y fun that feels as cute and welcome as  lambs. In reading, I have to say if I look at the two to mean strength versus […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/03/march-reading-wrap-up/feed/ 4 10356 Speak No Evil https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/03/speak-no-evil/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/03/speak-no-evil/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2018 07:30:05 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=10325 Life provides a graceful arc for the fortunate When you’re a teenager, relationships feel exceptionally complicated, something Niru and Meredith learn in in Speak No Evil, the new novel from Uzodinma Iweala. They are seniors at a private school in Washington D.C. where he is a track star and is set to attend Harvard in […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/03/speak-no-evil/feed/ 3 10325 The Great Alone https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/02/the-great-alone/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/02/the-great-alone/#comments Fri, 16 Feb 2018 08:56:50 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=10118   Well, this is a little bit awkward. I’m one of the hordes of readers who raved about Hannah’s last book, The Nightingale, and yet I have to report that with only 80 pages left (out of over 400) I abandoned her latest, The Great Alone. I had simply gone as far with the novel […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/02/the-great-alone/feed/ 6 10118 Turtles All the Way Down by John Green https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/02/turtles-all-the-way-down-by-john-green/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/02/turtles-all-the-way-down-by-john-green/#comments Fri, 09 Feb 2018 08:49:14 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=10095   Turtles All the Way Down is my first experience with John Green and it left me mostly with…nothing. On the one hand, I applaud him for writing such an unsympathetic character, but on the other, I didn’t want to read about her. Her is Aza, a teenager with severe OCD. She has a loving […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/02/turtles-all-the-way-down-by-john-green/feed/ 5 10095 5 Star Week: The Takedown https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/04/5-star-week-the-takedown/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/04/5-star-week-the-takedown/#comments Mon, 10 Apr 2017 07:32:39 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=8583 This doesn’t happen very often, OK, never now that I think about it, but this week I have not one, not two, but three 5 star books that make me all evangelical. Only today’s is a new release, but beyond that all three cover a diverse range of reading that will bring on the book love!   […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/04/5-star-week-the-takedown/feed/ 10 8583 Bellweather Rhapsody https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/01/bellweather-rhapsody/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/01/bellweather-rhapsody/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2017 08:18:08 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=8252   Remember the movie The Shining? If so, forget what you thought about it in relation to Stephen King’s book and just recall its many amazing visuals. Now, turn it into a campy musical, turn it back into a novel and you have Kate Racculia’s Bellweather Rhapsody. Set in the Catskills in early November with a […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/01/bellweather-rhapsody/feed/ 15 8252 High School Trauma and Drama: Mini-Reviews https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/01/high-school-trauma-and-drama/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/01/high-school-trauma-and-drama/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2017 08:06:38 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=7881 There are few people who look back on high school as the best years of their life and, quite frankly, I don’t trust them. These two novels encapsulate what may or may not be the truth of high school life in America today. Is it accurate? Dear God, I hope not, but I’m so far […]

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