wealth Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/wealth/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Thu, 14 Mar 2024 20:14:03 +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 wealth Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/wealth/ 32 32 38398750 Pineapple Street https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/03/pineapple-street/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/03/pineapple-street/#comments Fri, 15 Mar 2024 07:34:35 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18296 The Stocktons are a family of inherited wealth, the kind whose trust funds have trust funds. Cord works with their father at the family’s real estate investment firm, but beyond that jobs are not anything his sisters Georgina and Darley have ever given thought to. Money or more importantly the lack of money is not […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/03/pineapple-street/feed/ 4 18296 The House Guest https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/03/the-house-guest/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/03/the-house-guest/#comments Fri, 24 Mar 2023 07:46:41 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17376 Reading as much as I do is a joy, but it can make me feel jaded. It leaves me with a ‘been there, read that’ mindset, especially when it comes to thrillers. That’s one of the reasons I was so tickled by Hank Philippi Ryan’s The House Guest. She uses the reader’s cynicism and suspicion […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/03/the-house-guest/feed/ 4 17376 Deliberate Cruelty https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/11/deliberate-cruelty/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/11/deliberate-cruelty/#respond Fri, 25 Nov 2022 08:26:25 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17098 I’ve always had a fascination with high society and the people who chronicle it. Fiction like The Swans of Fifth Avenue  and memoirs like Dilettante are some of my favorite reading. In keeping with that theme, but straying from the ‘giving thanks’ aspect of the week, I’m back with a bit of wealthy people behaving badly […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/11/deliberate-cruelty/feed/ 0 17098 June Reading Recap https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/07/june-reading-recap/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/07/june-reading-recap/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2022 04:08:27 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16806 June. What a month. Normally, this is a recap of my reading, but no matter how I try to stick to the subject of books my brain refuses to cooperate. By this time next week we’ll be starting the 2,200 mile trip from Ann Arbor to Seattle. The unending list of what needs to be […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/07/june-reading-recap/feed/ 4 16806 Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/05/empire-of-pain/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/05/empire-of-pain/#comments Mon, 24 May 2021 04:57:51 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15705 I often talk about fiction that evokes strong emotion, but I’m not as likely to find it in nonfiction. Until now. Patrick Keefe’s Empire of Pain has left me angrier than I’ve been in a long time. The book’s subtitle should clarify things: The Secret History of the Sackler Family Dynasty. If you’ve never read […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/05/empire-of-pain/feed/ 10 15705 January Reading Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/02/january-reading-wrap-up-4/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/02/january-reading-wrap-up-4/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2021 05:15:06 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15333 What a month. Parts of January left me stunned while others made me cry with relief. I’ll leave it at that. As for my reading, the year is starting out strong. I read 18 books, with more than half being 3.5 stars or higher. But I also DNFed three books in January, which is unusually […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/02/january-reading-wrap-up-4/feed/ 2 15333 The Fortunate Ones: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/01/the-fortunate-ones-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/01/the-fortunate-ones-a-novel/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2021 05:08:02 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15275 Things are starting to turn around in Charlie Boykin’s life. The child of a single mother who works as a cocktail waitress, he’s been one of the only white boys at his school and in their Nashville neighborhood. Now, he’s gotten a needs-based scholarship to Yeatman, a prestigious, private high-school. Even better, he’s assigned an […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/01/the-fortunate-ones-a-novel/feed/ 2 15275 The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/01/the-wife-upstairs-by-rachel-hawkins/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/01/the-wife-upstairs-by-rachel-hawkins/#comments Fri, 08 Jan 2021 05:06:23 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15260 I’m a fan of modern retellings of classics. I realize they can risky and there are times they don’t work (I’m looking at you Anna K), but when I saw someone was taking on Jane Eyre I was ready. The Wife Upstairs is set in Birmingham, Alabama not England, and is about Jane, a young […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/01/the-wife-upstairs-by-rachel-hawkins/feed/ 4 15260 The Last Castle by Denise Kiernan https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/12/the-last-castle-by-denise-kiernan/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/12/the-last-castle-by-denise-kiernan/#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2020 05:49:07 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15132 One of the main nonfiction backlist books I wanted to read this month is The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home by Denise Kiernan. I loved her book The Girls of Atomic City about the women in America who were part of the effort to win WWII. […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/12/the-last-castle-by-denise-kiernan/feed/ 3 15132 Anna K: A Novel by Jenny Lee https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/07/anna-k-a-novel-by-jenny-lee/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/07/anna-k-a-novel-by-jenny-lee/#respond Fri, 03 Jul 2020 04:17:00 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=14535 One of the staples of fiction is the modern retelling of a classic novel. It’s a bit dicey—sometimes it works and other times it goes awry. Anna K is Jenny Lee’s reimagining of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina—a sweeping 800-page saga about a married woman and mother who falls in love with a debonair count, giving up […]

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