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Prompt: WINE

Did you know it takes eight hundred grapes to make one bottle of wine?

An easy, enjoyable read.  I liked the information about vineyards because we have a grape arbor, but nothing that would turn our grapes into wine.  :)

Will appeal to women's fiction fans.  The writing was breezy and fun, but the plot was a bit predictable.

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5/5🌟 Full of emotion, secrets, and knowledge about making wine; which is a nice bonus if you love visiting vinyards. This reminded me of a good family drama movie where everyone gets together and there is laughing, crying, life lessons, secrets, and dysfunction set in cozy California wine country. I really enjoyed the sentimental value & nostalgia of childhood and family tradition.🍇🍷

This started really slow for me and while I live a messy family, one that just doesn‘t talk to each other makes me nuts. This was mostly so-so for me, but she did keep me reading and I did enjoy how things ended. I definitely preferred The Last Thing He Told Me. #BookspinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

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Today‘s Prompt: TITLES WITH A FRUIT

FICTION - CHICK LIT - ROMANCE

Did you know it takes eight hundred grapes to make one bottle of wine? - https://tinyurl.com/yx5vrvnd

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4-8-22: My 33rd finished book of 2022! When Georgia finds out her fiancé is keeping a secret from her one week before their wedding she flees home to her family‘s Sonoma County vineyard to figure things out. Faced with a family full of issues she wasn‘t aware of, Georgia wants to try to fix everything and everyone, but she must fix herself first. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️?#️⃣3️⃣3️⃣

My book club read this 5 years ago. We rented a mini van and signed up my dh to be dd so we could drink wine and have lunch. We went out of town to a restaurant called Grapes. Each item on the menu has a white or red wine pairing from a local vineyard. We may not have loved the book but we had a blast on our field trip.
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I‘ve been to Napa while visiting family who live nearby but I think this is the only book I‘ve read set in #WineCountry I‘m enjoying thinking of all the places I have visited or could visit in the future during #LitsySpringBreak

I knew the wine/whine prompt for #Booked2020 would be the hardest for me. I find whiny characters irritating enough that I usually don‘t finish the book, and I have an aversion to wine. (It was my alcoholic dad‘s drink of choice. Plus wine people can be very pretentious. Chocolate? Oaky? Um, no, it‘s all grapes! 🙄) This wasn‘t as bad as I feared but was just meh. But I got through it! 👍🏼 Oh, and it was my #bookspin!

Not great, really not good at all. I thought this book would be just my thing (I used to work for a wine merchant in London and I love Sonoma), but sadly the main character was just completely unbearable!
I usually don‘t mind a very flawed protagonist, but I somehow felt like the author wanted us to root for Georgia.... and I found her self-centered, immature and unbelievably interfering.
This book fitted both #wine & #whine prompts!
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Loved this one!

This is set at a vineyard. I read this at the beach one year and it was perfect for that. #AboutWine #BiblioMAYnia

Last day of #owlsreadathonsnaps2020 Potion Brewing 101, favorite beverage to drink while reading. Coffee, tea, beer, a cocktail, I enjoy any of these while reading a book. BUT there's nothing better than sitting down w/ a good book and a glass of wine at the end of the day. So wine is definitely my favorite beverage when reading. #magicalreadathon2020 #OWLsReadathon2020

“You have to grow 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.” 🍇🍷 #latestread #wine #love

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Going with a wine theme today with four books from my shelf....
🍷I loved ‘Cork Dork‘. It‘s such a fun ‘learn to do something new‘ memoir...
🍷 ‘Seasons in the wine country‘ is a lovely cook book I bought on a trip to CA..
🍷‘Wine with Food‘ is a great beginners guide to food & wine matching
🍷The tagged book is a novel from my #TBR mountain that sounds just my jam!

Oscar helps me show off my current read. #DogsofLitsy #whpg

It was ok. Lots of family and love life drama, but I struggled to get into it.

While I like this author's storytelling I didn't much care for the main character. Also the resolution (?) of her love life, despite being no surprise at all, annoyed me. Overall, somewhere between a pick and a so- so.

I'm pretty sure this is all going to turn out with hearts & ribbons &her family grateful for her intervention but I can't help wondering WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS? Her mother, both brothers, even her father, have told her they're good with the sale but this chicky is sure she knows better than all of them. As this is fiction I'm sure her family will be thrilled but I can't help wanting to see her get a very rude awakening. #emmawoodhouselivesagain

I'm spending the evening with my book, a salad, a cozy afgan, and The Hubs watching the Seahawks/Cowboys game in the background. 😊 #happycamper #currentread (and oh yes my jammies DO have sharks on them 🦈)

Obviously I couldn‘t overlook the musical inaccuracies. 🙄 Plus The clunkiness of the language. (“Blah blah blah,” he said. “Blah blah blah,” I said.) And the female narrator‘s attempts at male voices. And the over-the-top-even-for-fluff plot lines. One thing this book did do. It chased me back to good literature. I finished my #audiowalk to the first lecture in The Great Course‘s series on TheEnglish Novel. 🤷🏻‍♀️#unpopularopinion

My newest #audiocommute book. It‘s fluff, but I need that right now. If I can keep the inaccurate music references from driving me crazy, this might be relaxing.

Putting this one solidly in the pick category, despite the predictable way many of the storylines turned out. Even having the feeling I knew what would happen, I still very much enjoyed reading about how it would get to that point. It doesn't have the teeth of some heavier family dramas, but still much of the dysfunctional side. I'm all for some light hearted dysfunction to round out my day 😊

Taking an evening away from serial killers to try and finish off my dysfunctional family drama 🍇🍇🍇

The perfect evening to sit in the reading shed with a candle burning beside me (Belgian Linen scent 😍) - it is so much nicer reading about vineyards when I'm staring at trees and hearing the crickets and cicadas all around me #rechargingthebatteries

Reflecting on my day, planning my morning routine, and then settling in for some more fictional family drama. The Nest was so much fun I thought I'd continue with dysfunctional family antics #familyiseverything #familiesarecomplicated

This is a predictable slog about a woman who goes home to her family winery after she learns her fiancé had been keeping a secret from her. At home, she finds her family in disarray. This book is packed with storylines, none interesting. Every “plot twist” in this story drove me crazy because I ALREADY KNOW HOW THIS WILL END WHY ARE YOU DELAYING THE INEVITABLE ARE YOU BEING PAID BY THE WORD This book is getting good reviews and I do not understand

This was a perfect summer read! It was a bit predictable, but I loved the setting of a family vineyard. A nice quick listen!

It is a crappy rainy day... I am liking this so far. A needed break.

I read Hello, Sunshine in one sitting last night- so I thought I‘d give this a try today #currentlyreading

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Another book that‘s been on my TBR for quite a while. Has anyone read this one? I think I‘ll really enjoy it. Also, this cover 😍😍

Maybe it‘s because this took place in my hometown or because it was just plain good, but I really enjoyed this one.

Thank you so much @Robothugs for the #bookmail. You turned my today around drastically! I was so cranky after work but now I have an awesome new favorite bookmark and a book I am excited to read. I cannot thank you enough.

Makes me want to go to the wine country!

@ju.ca.no Thank you so very much! I won her giveaway and she was so kind as to throw in a cute notepad, some pages to color and a stunning picture of Vienna‘s National Library. Thank you for sending this all the way from Austria. Wishing you a Happy 2018! 🎉

Thanks for everyone who participated in my #drinksandbooks giveaway! @AmyG you are the lucky winner! Please email me your adress to julianotter@gmx.at 😊

Thanks to @ju.ca.no for doing her #drinksandbooks #giveaway! My reading drink is always tea. I love many different kinds of tea, especially on a cold day snuggled up with a blanket and a good read.

Just a quick reminder that I‘m giving away this book! If you want it, all you have to do is to show me a picture of your #drinksandbooks ! What is your favourite drink when you are reading? And please tag me 😊 I‘m going to ship it worldwide on my expenses 😊 (possibly with a little additional surprise) feel free to share& don‘t forget to enter😊

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I don‘t usually read this genre and am trying to get some more shelf space so I‘m giving this book away! If you want to participate in the giveaway please show me a picture of your favourite reading-drink (as this books is about wine) and tag me😊mine is tea😊 #drinksandbooks (open worldwide until the 6th of dec)

11-8-17: #novemberbythenumbers I found this title on a Goodreads search and I actually think it sounds interesting. It takes place in Sonoma at a vineyard where lots of secrets are hiding. @JoeStalksBeck @Tiffy_Reads 🍇📖#️⃣8️⃣

You forget how baby cats are all action shots- they never stop moving!!!! This book is really good so far. Very dry writing, which I really like.

I needed something a bit lighter as my other book as I read THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD on my Kindle.
This has been sitting on my shelf for a while, so I thought I'd give it a try. #books #currentlyreading #amreading #EightHundredGrapes #LauraDave

????/5 A good story about family drama and the damage that keeping secrets can cause. I thought it would be a "fluff" read--romantic conedy--not my favorite genre. However, I was pleasantly surprised at the depth of plot and characterization.

I had the craziest case of dé·jà vu as I read this. But I write down every book I've read and this one wasn't on my list. Anyway, I give it ⭐️⭐️⭐️ but only because I could not like the main character. She had her nose in everyone else's life but her own. And her relationship with her fiancé was beyond frustrating. The writing was fine, I just didn't gel with the main character. It happens. I would definitely read another book by this author.

This is my second Laura Dave book this summer and I must say I'm hooked on this author! She does not follow the traditional route of point A to point B to point C and the logical conclusion at the end. Both the books I've read go back and forth and are all over the place and you truly have no idea what to expect for the ending. I love that and her storytelling abilities 😊 I'll be looking into a few more of her books come this fall and winter.

'You have to grow 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.'
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Love the quote that started off this book! 🍇