Vintage Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/vintage/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sat, 10 Oct 2020 19:17:45 +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 Vintage Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/vintage/ 32 32 38398750 Heat by Bill Buford https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/11/heat-bill-buford/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/11/heat-bill-buford/#comments Mon, 27 Nov 2017 08:24:15 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=9672 I’m not sure how seriously I can take a man who is foolish enough to invite a world class chef into his home for dinner, but I decided to give Bill Buford a chance. His invitation to Mario Batali leads him to ask if he can work as an intern in the kitchen of Mario’s […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/11/heat-bill-buford/feed/ 7 9672 Dystopian Summer: Mini-Reviews https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/08/dystopian-summer-mini-reviews/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/08/dystopian-summer-mini-reviews/#comments Fri, 04 Aug 2017 03:25:10 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=9088 The title of this post might make you think I’m alluding to the dumpster fire that is current American politics, but you’d be wrong. Although the generalized anxiety so many of us are feeling is likely caused by the chaos, I’m only referring to two novels I recently read. Summer might not seem like the […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/08/dystopian-summer-mini-reviews/feed/ 2 9088 5 Star Week: Before the Wind https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/04/5-star-week-before-the-wind/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/04/5-star-week-before-the-wind/#comments Fri, 14 Apr 2017 07:23:35 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=8601 There’s no better way to wrap up a week of fabulous 5 star reading than with one of my favorite books of 2016. Jim Lynch is a Seattle author and this lovely book about a quirky family of  sailors works even if you hate water. It just came out in paperback so I’m talking it […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/04/5-star-week-before-the-wind/feed/ 1 8601 The Mare: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/12/the-mare-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/12/the-mare-a-novel/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2016 08:43:51 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=7524   The Mare by Mary Gaitskill begins when Velvet, a Dominican girl living in NYC, is eleven and ends when she thirteen, but her life experiences go far beyond her age. Through the Fresh Air Fund, she gets to go to upstate NY for a summer and stays with Ginger (“this blond lady…her face full […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/12/the-mare-a-novel/feed/ 12 7524 Boo: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/07/boo-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/07/boo-a-novel/#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2015 07:13:37 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=4215 You are thirteen; standing in front of your locker at school one morning and the next thing you know you wake up in an austere white room and are informed you’ve been ‘rebirthed’ into Heaven, although it’s not called Heaven it’s called Town. For most 13-year-olds this would be fairly traumatic but for Oliver, the […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/07/boo-a-novel/feed/ 6 4215 Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/06/station-eleven-by-emily-st-john-mandel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/06/station-eleven-by-emily-st-john-mandel/#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2015 07:48:12 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=4097 On Tuesday Station Eleven came out in paperback. I reviewed it last fall when it debuted and it made my list of Favorite Books of 2014. Whether you’re spending the summer at home, on a beach or by a pool this is perfect summer reading.   I read a fair amount of dystopian fiction this […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/06/station-eleven-by-emily-st-john-mandel/feed/ 8 4097 Above the East China Sea https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/05/above-the-east-china-sea/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/05/above-the-east-china-sea/#comments Fri, 01 May 2015 07:03:40 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=3974     How has he not had it drummed into him that brats don’t whine? We don’t plead. We don’t need. We require nothing. Not even real roots. We’re air ferns. In Sarah Bird’s new novel Above the East China Sea the island of Okinawa is the centerpiece of a multi-generational drama that plays out […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/05/above-the-east-china-sea/feed/ 3 3974 Plainsong https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/12/plainsong/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/12/plainsong/#comments Mon, 02 Dec 2013 08:29:06 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=2310   From an aerial satellite view one might think Holt, Colorado to be a town so tiny as to be without interest. That would be the case if not for Kent Haruf, who brings this town to quiet, poignant life in the novel Plainsong. There are the McPheron brothers, older farmers who have never married […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/12/plainsong/feed/ 11 2310 The Engagements https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/08/the-engagements/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/08/the-engagements/#comments Mon, 12 Aug 2013 07:15:57 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=2022 J. Courtney Sullivan returns, this time turning her insightful eyes to a subject dear to many women’s hearts and one that epitomizes the eternal hope of love, diamonds. In her latest novel, The Engagements, we meet Frances Gerety, the woman who, in the 1950s, created one of the most celebrated slogans of the century: A […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/08/the-engagements/feed/ 2 2022 Seating Arrangements https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/05/seating-arrangements/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/05/seating-arrangements/#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 07:47:24 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=1659   Seating Arrangements is the weekend long drama of the Van Meter family, gathered in their house on Waskeke Island, off the New England coast. For the family patriarch it is a time largely viewed as a disturbance to the normal stately pace of his life. The tiny minded Winn Van Meter, lives up to […]

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