Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave

2 stars I won this book in a giveaway. Overall, not really my kind of book. I really enjoy wine and have liked other vineyard-based novels, but this one was not my glass of wine, so to speak. I was really intrigued by the opening quote, “You have to grow about eight hundred grapes to…

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Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez

2 stars I received an ARC of this book through The Reading Room/Bookstr. Definitely a disturbing and macabre collection of stories, but that wasn’t what I disliked about it. What I really didn’t like was that most of the stories didn’t really have a plot or resolution. They were more just a collection of creepy…

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I Wish… by Jillian Harker

2 stars  A cute book, but not much for plot. I liked the illustrations and the characters, but this book read like the introduction to a series, not a book in and of itself. Nothing really happened outside of Benji meeting the new toys.A nice picture book, but not much of a story.

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