women Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/women/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:13:30 +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 women Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/women/ 32 32 38398750 More Than Enough by Anna Quindlen https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/03/more-than-enough-by-anna-quindlen/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/03/more-than-enough-by-anna-quindlen/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:03:27 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19543 Open Anna Quindlen’s new novel More Than Enough and you’ll meet Polly, a happy middle-aged woman. Her husband adores her and she him, she’s an English teacher at all girls’ school, and she has three stalwart, loving friends. Friends who give her a DNA test kit as a gag gift. When there’s a match for […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/03/more-than-enough-by-anna-quindlen/feed/ 2 19543 Daughter of Egypt https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/03/daughter-of-egypt/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/03/daughter-of-egypt/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:23:42 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19537 Two young women, separated by thousands of years, stand at the center of Marie Benedict’s new novel, Daughter of Egypt. One is the daughter of a wealthy English lord in post-WWI England while the other is a pharaoh’s daughter in ancient Egypt. Only one has a life predestined by the gods, but both will have […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/03/daughter-of-egypt/feed/ 0 19537 Ask Not by Maureen Callahan https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/11/ask-not-by-maureen-callahan/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/11/ask-not-by-maureen-callahan/#respond Fri, 14 Nov 2025 08:54:48 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19402 Reams of paper have been expended in dissecting the Kennedys in all their tragedy and fame. Now, author Maureen Callahan joins the fray with a knockout punch in Ask Not. The book’s subtitle is The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed, but in case Callahan’s being too subtle this is a scathing exposé about the […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/11/ask-not-by-maureen-callahan/feed/ 0 19402 Next Level by Stacy Sims https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/11/next-level-by-stacy-sims/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/11/next-level-by-stacy-sims/#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2025 08:40:36 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19397 In 2025 more than 1 BILLION women worldwide will be experiencing menopause. How’s that for a book review opening? That means all of its stages whether it’s peri, menopause, or post. For author Stacy Sims this is something that’s been ignored for far too long and that she’s been researching for decades. She’s got her […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/11/next-level-by-stacy-sims/feed/ 4 19397 The Secret Book Society https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/10/the-secret-book-society/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/10/the-secret-book-society/#respond Fri, 03 Oct 2025 07:18:38 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19365 It’s 1895 in England and women are kept firmly in their established roles as wives, mothers, and arbiters of society. Deviation from these roles or even a desire for something more could lead to a woman being institutionalized by her guardian “for her own safety”. A guardian was the male in her life be it […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/10/the-secret-book-society/feed/ 0 19365 The Correspondent https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/09/the-correspondent/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/09/the-correspondent/#comments Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:17:09 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19288 When Sybil Van Antwerp came of age there was no such thing as digital. Given that, she sees no reason to abandon her lifelong habit of communicating via letter. She’ll even use email when it is the only option, but that is as much as she’ll concede. This means Virginia Evans’ debut The Correspondent is […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/09/the-correspondent/feed/ 2 19288 The Next Day https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/08/the-next-day/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/08/the-next-day/#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2025 07:47:48 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19271 Nonfiction has not been rewarding for me this year. My guess is the petulant part of my brain feels that it is already working too hard to process this country’s current reality and has no room for more information. But then I discovered The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward by Melinda French Gates […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/08/the-next-day/feed/ 2 19271 Georgia by Dawn Tripp https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/07/georgia-by-dawn-tripp/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/07/georgia-by-dawn-tripp/#comments Thu, 10 Jul 2025 07:02:00 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19222 When I become interested in a subject, especially when it’s a woman, I turn to historical fiction. I’m not sure why—maybe diving right into nonfiction makes me feel like I’m back in school? At the very least my compromised ability to pay attention means fiction of any kind is the right starting point. Thankfully, I […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/07/georgia-by-dawn-tripp/feed/ 2 19222 The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/06/the-brilliant-life-of-eudora-honeysett/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/06/the-brilliant-life-of-eudora-honeysett/#respond Wed, 11 Jun 2025 07:05:19 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18278 I’m moving away from terror today with The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett. Eudora is 85 years old, has never married, and lives quietly in her London rowhouse. She’s in reasonable health, but is tired of the idiocy of the modern world and afraid that because she has no family she’s going to spend her […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/06/the-brilliant-life-of-eudora-honeysett/feed/ 0 18278 Kate & Frida: A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/03/kate-frida-a-novel-of-friendship-food-and-books/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/03/kate-frida-a-novel-of-friendship-food-and-books/#comments Mon, 24 Mar 2025 07:17:55 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19046 It begins with a letter sent from Paris to Seattle. Nothing romantic or between friends, but business because in 1991 that’s how these things were done. Frida writes to the Puget Sound Book Store looking for a book. Kate is the employee delegated with filling this customer request. Neither could know that this brief correspondence […]

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