Viking Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/viking/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Thu, 13 May 2021 18:28:21 +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 Viking Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/viking/ 32 32 38398750 How Could She: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/04/how-could-she-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/04/how-could-she-a-novel/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2020 04:10:30 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=14242 How Could She by Lauren Mechling is the perfect palate cleanser after reading two tomes in a row about the Tudors. Defiantly contemporary, it’s the story of three friends. Or maybe, frenemies? It’s a blurred line. Rachel, Sunny, and Geraldine all met in Toronto when they worked for the same magazine. Later both Sunny and Rachel […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/04/how-could-she-a-novel/feed/ 2 14242 Know My Name by Chanel Miller https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/01/know-my-name-by-chanel-miller/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/01/know-my-name-by-chanel-miller/#comments Fri, 03 Jan 2020 05:57:57 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13621 Emily Doe was the name given to the young woman sexually assaulted by Brock Turner, a Stanford student-athlete in 2015. If that doesn’t ring a bell, this should: he was given a sentence that was offensive in its leniency, inciting an outcry around the country. Know My Name is a memoir written by Chanel Miller. She […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/01/know-my-name-by-chanel-miller/feed/ 6 13621 Annelies by David Gillham https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/01/annelies-david-gillham/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/01/annelies-david-gillham/#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2019 08:37:11 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12161 As much as I love historical fiction, there are some people who should be left to history rather than brought back in fiction. After reading David Gillham’s Annelies I believe Anne Frank is one of these. She is too deeply imbued by her own writing, the writing she left behind to be reconsidered by another […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/01/annelies-david-gillham/feed/ 3 12161 January Reading Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/01/january-reading-wrap-up/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/01/january-reading-wrap-up/#comments Wed, 31 Jan 2018 08:44:21 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=10007   It may be a new year, but my 2018 reading is starting off much like 2017—disappointing new releases and powerhouse backlist books. I bought Sarah’s Reading Tracker so am hoping to be able to quantify my reading missteps and make better choices. Until then, here’s what worked and didn’t work in January.   I’m […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/01/january-reading-wrap-up/feed/ 12 10007 A Star Called Henry https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/12/star-called-henry/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/12/star-called-henry/#comments Mon, 11 Dec 2017 08:28:05 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=9759   There may be a lot about the reality of historical Ireland that I don’t like (being a woman and all), but fictionally, male Irish authors are some of the most lyrically gifted I’ve ever read. My longtime favorite was William Trevor (The Story of Lucy Gault, Death in Summer) and then this fall I […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/12/star-called-henry/feed/ 4 9759 We Were the Lucky Ones https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/11/we-were-the-lucky-ones/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/11/we-were-the-lucky-ones/#comments Mon, 20 Nov 2017 08:11:49 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=9639 According to Polish law, a person of Jewish heritage belongs not to Poland but to a Jewish nation. Just when I think I have read as much fiction about the Holocaust as I need to, when I’m sure there can’t be another permutation of the horror and struggle for survival, I’m proven wrong. This time […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/11/we-were-the-lucky-ones/feed/ 4 9639 5 Fall Thrillers: Mini-Reviews https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/10/5-fall-thrillers-mini-reviews/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/10/5-fall-thrillers-mini-reviews/#comments Fri, 13 Oct 2017 07:29:11 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=9338 As the fall weather settles in and Halloween approaches what better time to discuss thrillers? The kind of books that make you settle into a favorite chair with a hot drink while it’s grey and rainy outside. Given that new releases have been a bit flat this year, I’m mixing up my reviews with three […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/10/5-fall-thrillers-mini-reviews/feed/ 4 9338 A Column of Fire by Ken Follett https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/09/a-column-of-fire/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/09/a-column-of-fire/#comments Wed, 27 Sep 2017 22:51:04 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=9375   In the eyes of the church, the Bible was the most dangerous of all banned books…Priests said that ordinary people were unable to rightly interpret God’s word, and needed guidance. Protestants said the Bible opened men’s eyes to the errors of the priesthood. A Column of Fire is the third book in Ken Follett’s […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/09/a-column-of-fire/feed/ 3 9375 A Gentleman in Moscow https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/09/a-gentleman-in-moscow/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/09/a-gentleman-in-moscow/#comments Tue, 06 Sep 2016 07:42:06 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=7037 When he is thirty-three Count Alexander Rostov finds himself sentenced by the Bolsheviks to house arrest at the Metropol, a prestigious hotel in the theater district of Moscow. Initially, it doesn’t seem a particularly harsh sentence because he has already been living there in a posh suite for four years. But now, he may not […]

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