Last year I swooned just a little bit over A Little Something Different by the up and coming Sandy Hall, citing it as a read similar in tone to that of Rainbow Rowell’s books. This year, Hall is back with a brand new addition, Signs Point To Yes, an adorable young adult romantic romp about a girl named […]
Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy | Book Review
September 18, 2015
PRAISE HANDS FOR JULIE MURPHY. All of the emoji praise hands for Julie Murphy. For serious I want to just throw a ticker tape parade for her latest book, Dumplin’. I want to press it into the hands of anyone who has ever been made to feel bad about how they look. I want to press […]
Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story Of The Deadliest Cook In America by Susan Campbell Bartoletti | Book Review
September 2, 2015
Okay, if you are not new to Good Books & Good Wine you know that I love books about diseases. I do not know why I find diseases so interesting, but there it is. If you are new here, HI SORRY IF I SCARED YOU AWAY. Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story Of The Deadliest Cook […]
Six Impossible Things by Fiona Wood | Book Review
June 25, 2015
Australia has a reputation for publishing and producing some of the best young adult books around – from Melina Marchetta to Cath Crowley to Markus Zusak, there’s a whole lot of talent in the land down under. Joining the ranks is Fiona Wood. Six Impossible Things is the first book by Fiona Wood that I’ve read, […]
Allison: Good For You | Tammara Webber | Book Review
April 4, 2015
A couple of years ago, I found myself hooked on the Between The Lines series by Tammara Webber. The series followed the characters Emma, Graham, Reid, and Brooke as they starred in a major Hollywood high school take on Pride and Prejudice. In the first two books, the relationship between Emma and Graham is the […]