Catherine Gilmore
@gilmoreguide.bsky.social
Reader, reviewer, podcaster, and lover of books. And wine.
Just in time for Halloween, my reviews of two creepy novels about serial killers. 😱
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.
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October 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Just in time for Halloween, my reviews of two creepy novels about serial killers. 😱
Once I started reading I couldn't put this devious, sharp, engrossing mystery down. I loved Her Many Faces. #bookreview
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...
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September 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Once I started reading I couldn't put this devious, sharp, engrossing mystery down. I loved Her Many Faces. #bookreview
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
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 Chakraborty‘s novel, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi. Amina is a middle-aged woman, a mother, ...
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September 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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
I loved this book from Melinda French Gates. The Next Day was exactly the reading I needed. #bookreview @flatironbooks.bsky.social
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...
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August 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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?
THERAPIST: …
ME: are you mad at me?
February 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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?
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.
February 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Maintain your sanity, friends. Maintain your joy and peace while you continue to put your back into the work that needs doing.
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
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 ...
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January 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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
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
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...
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December 11, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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
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I'm always up for an unlikable unreliable narrator! Thank you, @jeanhanff.bsky.social for a messy, twisted ride- just what my reading needed.
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...
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November 18, 2024 at 6:09 PM
I'm always up for an unlikable unreliable narrator! Thank you, @jeanhanff.bsky.social for a messy, twisted ride- just what my reading needed.
Just saw CNN headline that Voyager 1 spacecraft has stopped communicants with Earth. Can you blame it?
December 14, 2023 at 6:50 PM
Just saw CNN headline that Voyager 1 spacecraft has stopped communicants with Earth. Can you blame it?
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Completely senile but somehow also devilishly crafty President Biden continues to destroy the US economy….
December 13, 2023 at 10:23 PM
Completely senile but somehow also devilishly crafty President Biden continues to destroy the US economy….