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Guinevere de la Mare

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in Honolulu, The United States

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http://silentbook.club

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Nonfiction, Art

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February 2009

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Guinevere de la Mare is the co-founder of Silent Book Club, a global community of readers with local chapters in 2000 cities around the world. She's the author of I'd Rather Be Reading: A Library of Art for Book Lovers (Chronicle Books, 2017) . ...more

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Average rating: 3.56 · 1,974 ratings · 429 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	I'd Rather Be Reading: A Library of Art for Book Lovers 3.55 avg rating — 1,970 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I'd Rather Be Reading: Notebook Collection: (Book Lover's Gift, Literary Birthday Gift) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I'd Rather Be Reading: Hardcover Journal: (Book Lover's Gift, Journal Notebook and Notecard Set, Literary Birthday Gift) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Guinevere DelaMare rated a book it was amazing Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Guinevere DelaMare rated a book really liked it American Fantasy by Emma Straub (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Guinevere DelaMare has read 'Til Death Do We Parent: Raising My Kid with His Dad by Jess Hilarious	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Guinevere DelaMare has read A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
(Audiobook)(Book club) Picked this up for a reread for book club and found I didn’t love it like I did the first time I read it. Part of what bothered me was suicide as a plot device, since I’ve lost several people close to me in the years since it f ...more
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Guinevere DelaMare has read Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Not bad but I just don’t like sci-fi. I wanted to read it before seeing the movie so that I would already know how it ends. I don’t like being stressed out by space movies. Apollo 13 was the WORST. I still can’t watch Tom Hanks without resentment for ...more
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Guinevere DelaMare rated a book it was amazing Into the Blue by Emma Brodie (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Standing ovation. Nerdy and smart and funny and sexy and sad and satisfying. Exactly the kind of rollercoaster of emotions I want to ride. Well done, Emma Brodie. Highly recommend!
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Guinevere DelaMare rated a book really liked it Cleopatra by Saara El-Arifi (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
(Audiobook) It’s narrated by Adjoa Andoh (Lady Danbury of Bridgerton fame) which should be enough to bump it to the top of your listening queue. I really enjoyed this epic novelization of Cleopatra’s life “in her own words.” I realized I knew little ...more
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Guinevere DelaMare rated a book really liked it Cleopatra by Saara El-Arifi (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
(Audiobook) It’s narrated by Adjoa Andoh (Lady Danbury of Bridgerton fame) which should be enough to bump it to the top of your listening queue. I really enjoyed this epic novelization of Cleopatra’s life “in her own words.” I realized I knew little ...more
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Guinevere DelaMare rated a book it was amazing The Fountain by Casey Scieszka (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
(Audiobook) THE FOUNTAIN by Casey Sciezska, about a woman trying to undo the effects of 200 years of immortality, was such a page turner, I couldn’t wait to find out how it would end. Didn’t disappoint! Ever grateful to Libro.fm for keeping me stocke ...more
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Guinevere DelaMare rated a book it was amazing Liar's Dice by Juliet Faithfull	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
(ARC) A stunner of a debut, just wow. Based on the author’s life, it’s about identical twin sisters growing up in rural Brazil, and what happens to the family after one twin falls gravely ill and is institutionalized. Thank you Thousand Voices for th ...more
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“Books are the best remedy for boredom, but it's a remedy you have to discover for yourself.”
― Guinevere de la Mare, I'd Rather Be Reading: A Library of Art for Book Lovers

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“In our leisure moments, whenever we have downtime, we should turn to literature—to works that took some time to write and will take some time to read, but will also stay with us longer than anything else.”
― Guinevere de la Mare, I'd Rather Be Reading: A Library of Art for Book Lovers

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“Why hasn’t a hip alliance emerged that’s concerned about what happens to our intellectual health, our country, and, yes, our happiness when we consume empty-calorie entertainment?”
― Guinevere de la Mare, I'd Rather Be Reading: A Library of Art for Book Lovers

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“Books are the best remedy for boredom, but it's a remedy you have to discover for yourself.”
― Guinevere de la Mare, I'd Rather Be Reading: A Library of Art for Book Lovers

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