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| "You have to grow eight hundred grapes to make one bottle of wine... If that isn't argument enough to finish the bottle, I don't know what is. |
I FINALLY finished my latest read… When did making time for
ourselves become so hard?
I mean it has nothing
to do with how badly I want to read a book or not, or how great I think the
book is. I can not sit still long enough to feel relaxed enough to read.
Which is wigging me out because I absolutely love it more
than anything.
Okay, maybe not more than this guy..
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| That face. |
But really though, I am such a book-worm-novel-lover. I
can’t believe how hard it has been for me to make the time to sit down and
read. Not even just literal time..
but, brain time.
You feel me?
Anyway, it’s something I am seriously working on! More me
time… noted.
Side Note: One of my close friends read this book with me.
We rolled out of bed Saturday morning and met for coffee bright and early, and
talked about this book for three. hours.
Okay okay we didn’t only talk about the book.. there was a
lot of life talk too. But, I am telling you, what serious food for the soul
that is. Just to talk, with an old friend, and sip my favorite coffee. So good for the heart.
And reading the same book together is so fun. Old ladies, the stuff we do for fun these days.
Best part? It forces you to
finish your book by a certain date, so your friend can hold you accountable.
I need that J
Also, thank goodness for great girlfriends, right? What would we do without
them?
Anyway.. Back to this book.
My friend Emily and I kept texting each other about what we thought at
random times during the night or during our lunch breaks. I love a book that you can relate to on such a level, it makes you think about your own life.
The protagonist is a 20-something girl named Georgia Ford. She is
an attorney, and her parents own a killer winery outside of San Francisco, which
she has sort of left behind for the hustle and bustle life of LA. She met the love of her
life and is engaged to be married. But three weeks before the wedding, she is
at her final dress fitting and looks up and out the window.. to find her
fiancé, Ben, standing with a popular actress, and a little girl. Georgia runs
out, still in her dress, to ask Ben what he is doing, and hears the little girl
call him Dad.
Georgia storms out of her fitting and drives straight home
to the winery, desperate for her family, nestled in the wine country of Sonoma. But she is shocked by the state her family is
in when she gets there. Her two brothers are at odds due to an affair involving one
of their wife’s, and her parent’s marriage is in trouble. Worst of all, her dad is
selling the beloved family winery.
All of a sudden Georgia opens her eyes, and the life as she
knew it is crumbling. Everything she has known to be true is being ripped out
from under her. Does she stay with Ben, and forgive this monumental secret he
has kept from her, and move forward with their upcoming wedding?
She has to wrestle with her parents who are the most in-love
couple she knows, divorcing and moving onto their own lives. But most
importantly, the winery. The only home she has ever known, being sold to
corporate windery owners that are against everything the Ford family believes
in.
Georgia is a strong-willed girl who knows what she wants.
She knows deep down that Ben has wronged her.. he lied, and she isn’t sure how
to forgive him. It isn’t just the lie though, it’s the gorgeous, perfect,
intimidating woman who she will now have to share her fiancé with for (a
minimum of) 18 years. How can she try to measure up to that every day? The mother of his child?
Eight Hundred Grapes pushes you to think about your limits.
What are your boundaries? What are your deal breakers? Hard no’s, red lines, we
all have them. We may not understand them until we are forced to.
Georgia is forced to face hers head on.
This novel taught me about the importance of integrity, what
commitment really means, and what it takes in life to truly jeopardize that. Laura Dave
brings to light the tangled web of reality that comes with family, and
what you do to stick together in the face of adversity. Eight Hundred Grapes evokes the power, the questions, the heartbreak, and the struggles that can come with love, and
that even when you think you have it all figured out; life can turn you upside
down, and you will end up right where you should be. And right where you land,
where you end up, is always where you least expect to be.
Pick up this book for your next summer read, you will not regret it!
What am I onto next? Emily Giffin's newest First Comes Love which is released TODAY! I have been waiting for this for months, more on this soon.....
XO
