A Brownie World: 800 Grapes & Black Friday in July

Every now and then you get a book that you just fall in love with. It draws you in and holds your shoulders and looks you square in the eyes and tells you a story that is exceptionally easy to sit down and read from cover to cover without a break.

I found that book.

Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave (2015)

I had briefly seen the book mentioned in a couple magazines in May. I thought after reading the 50 word write ups, "hey I should read that when it is released."

Well, I did.

Well, I coudn't get enough.

Here is the review via Amazon.com

There are secrets you share, and secrets you hide….

Growing up on her family’s Sonoma vineyard, Georgia Ford learned some important secrets. The secret number of grapes it takes to make a bottle of wine: eight hundred. The secret ingredient in her mother’s lasagna: chocolate. The secret behind ending a fight: hold hands.

But just a week before her wedding, thirty-year-old Georgia discovers her beloved fiancé has been keeping a secret so explosive, it will change their lives forever.

Georgia does what she’s always done: she returns to the family vineyard, expecting the comfort of her long-married parents, and her brothers, and everything familiar. But it turns out her fiancé is not the only one who’s been keeping secrets….

The story is great, you'll learn a little more about wine making and viticulture than you expect, but the way Dave moves the story along is what I appreciate.

You cannot get bored with this book because the chapters each have their own focus and aren't terribly long. She weaves a fabulous story through the way she has built the chapters of this book in the same way a quilter tells many stories within one section of a quilt that will relate to what you read 25 pages later.

Read this book. It won't take you long and I think you'll enjoy it too.

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