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Catherine Gilmore

@gilmoreguide.bsky.social

Reader, reviewer, podcaster, and lover of books. And wine.

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Serial Killers: Mini-Reviews - The Gilmore Guide to Books It's Halloween season and time for creepy reading. I've got two novels about serial killers that made for great scary reading.

Just in time for Halloween, my reviews of two creepy novels about serial killers. 😱

30.10.2025 20:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Her Many Faces - The Gilmore Guide to Books When four wealthy, prominent men are found poisoned at their exclusive club the police waste no time in apprehending the killer. Katherine Cole was the server at their private party and the last one t...

Once I started reading I couldn't put this devious, sharp, engrossing mystery down. I loved Her Many Faces. #bookreview

09.09.2025 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi - The Gilmore Guide to Books Sometimes all you need in your reading is a raucous tale of adventure and fun and I found it in Shannon Chakrabortyβ€˜s novel, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi. Amina is a middle-aged woman, a mother, ...

I loved everything about this fantasy novel and can't wait for the sequel. My favorite kind of reading- fun and escapist. Thank you, @shannonchakraborty.bsky.social! #bookreview #gilmoreguidetobooks

01.09.2025 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Next Day - The Gilmore Guide to Books 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 mo...

I loved this book from Melinda French Gates. The Next Day was exactly the reading I needed. #bookreview @flatironbooks.bsky.social

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ME [coming back to therapy after a bunch of really bad things happened and it turned out all that anxiety we’ve been working on this whole time was really just intuition]: ah-HA!

THERAPIST: …

ME: are you mad at me?

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Maintain your sanity, friends. Maintain your joy and peace while you continue to put your back into the work that needs doing.

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All the Water in the World - The Gilmore Guide to Books [book-info] The time has come. Thanks to climate change coastal cities are being abandoned for those further inland. In Manhattan, a small group of people has stayed behind, creating an encampment on ...

I thought this novel about a post-apocalyptic East Coast under water and the girl who has to navigate her way through this new world was really well done. Somber, gripping, but hopeful. #bookreview

20.01.2025 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Last Days of Night - The Gilmore Guide to Books [book-info] It’s hard to imagine that an ordinary and ubiquitous household item could be the source of riveting fiction, but in The Last Days of Night it is. Author Graham Moore makes a new, young law...

Who knew historical fiction about the light bulb and electricity could be so riveting? I loved this novel about the battle between Edison and Westinghouse. #bookreview #booksky #historicalfiction

11.12.2024 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh damn! I'm deeply intrigued, but this sounds like it could be the kind of reading that lands me on the 10 o'clock news.

22.11.2024 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Give it time, they'll show up. Until then enjoy the quiet. With a cocktail, of course. πŸ˜‰

21.11.2024 01:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

No, but adore Kathy Bates and trust you so this is going on my list. p.s. Happy to have found you here friend.

19.11.2024 17:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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12.11.2024 11:08 β€” πŸ‘ 23246    πŸ” 2412    πŸ’¬ 385    πŸ“Œ 101

Yes, of course! I'm strongly opposed to any change at all as you know, but am trying to adapt. Ha!

19.11.2024 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz - The Gilmore Guide to Books [book-info] More devious, delicious, escape reading! The Sequel is just that, the sequel to Jean Hanff Korelitz’s novel The Plot. Anna Williams-Bonner is the widow of critically acclaimed author Jacob...

I'm always up for an unlikable unreliable narrator! Thank you, @jeanhanff.bsky.social for a messy, twisted ride- just what my reading needed.

18.11.2024 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just saw CNN headline that Voyager 1 spacecraft has stopped communicants with Earth. Can you blame it?

14.12.2023 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Completely senile but somehow also devilishly crafty President Biden continues to destroy the US economy….

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Correct, but some days it feels like it.

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