Did you know it takes eight hundred grapes to make one bottle of wine?That ​apparently is the best-kept secret of wine makers just like there were a lot of secrets the Ford family and other characters were not revealing.EIGHT HUNDRED GRAPES was an easy, enjoyable read. I liked the information about ...
"You have to grow, mold, squish about eight hundred grapes to get just one bottle of wine. If that isn't an argument to finish the bottle, I don't know what is."You had me at WINE.Once in awhile, the perfect book at the perfect moment comes along and it's a beautiful thing. When I saw that Laura Dav...
What a great book! It really took me back to the wine country. The author did a great job with the descriptions of the scenery. She also did a great job with the characters. I felt I really got to know them and that I was sitting right there having Harvest dinner with them. The family dynamics were ...
"Eight Hundred Grapes" delivered something far from what I was expecting. I expected to find an average romance taking place at a winery. What I got was a story that was rich and full and complex but at the same time, so very simple and can be summed up in one sentence. It's a story about what one w...
This is by far Laura Dave's best work. She not only captures the angst of being young (relatively speaking), in love and determined to make a relationship work (which is essentially what her other two books have been about), but she also manages to interweave this story with that of another relatio...
I was so sure that I'd love Laura Dave's most recent novel, The First Husband, that while just one day into reading it, I happened to stumble across this book, London is the Best City in America (a title which thoroughly, albeit momentarily, confused my son) on sale in my local library for .50¢. Th...
I liked the idea of this book better than the actual novel. I couldn't relate to the central character, Annie. In fact, I felt so distant from her that every time I picked up the book after setting it aside, I was surprised to find it was being told in the first person from her perspective. I als...
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