Novellas totally do not get enough love here on Good Books  & Good Wine and that kind of sucks because novellas are awesome. They are quick to read and usually unencumbered by bogged down prose, but straight to the point and the action. Like, in a novella you truly do have to cut the crap in […]
The Princess Bride William Goldman Retro Friday Review
October 26, 2012
 I (Allison) love The Princess Bride. There. I’ve said it. It’s out for the entire internet universe to do with what it will. And I guess now that it is out there, I should also admit that up until recently the only version of The Princess Bride that I had taken part of was the […]
Allison Reviews Graceling by Kristin Cashore
October 22, 2012
To say that I was hooked on Graceling by Kristin Cashore from the beginning would honestly be an understatement. From my first introduction to the character of Katsa, I was totally captivated, and dying to know more about her. She’s totally kickass, and so is the world in which she is living in. You see […]
The Traitor’s Daughter Paula Brandon Book Review
October 21, 2012
Going from reading YA books to adult books can go either one of two ways: A) OH MY GOSH WHAT HAVE I BEEN MISSING or B) do ALL adult books meander like this?! Unfortunately, The Traitor’s Daughter by Paula Brandon was a book that didn’t exactly have me clamoring and proclaiming about how much I had […]
Swordspoint Ellen Kushner Audiobook Review
October 14, 2012
I’m kind of on the fence about Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner. On the one hand, it breaks pretty new ground TO me in that a gay relationship is front and center in the book. On the other hand, the audiobook starts off pretty well done and interesting with all the different voices reading, but then I […]
The Other Normals Ned Vizzini Book Review
September 30, 2012
I am pretty sure I know Perry Eckhert, main character of The Other Normals by Ned Vizzini in real life. Friends, I was super nervous to read The Other Normals because I had given it to Tony to read before me, because part of it’s about table top gaming and he was really into that, but he […]