book reviews
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While turning the pages through this paperback journey across southern France, you are sure to find new regions and reasons to discover and delight in rosé.
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If you can’t make it over to Italy this summer, this book might help a little… maybe.
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Anyone else love a good ole wine country detective mystery set in the Loire Valley? Because if you do, you’re in luck! Foul Play in Vouvray may just be the beach read you need this summer (if we are allowed to even go to the beach). My old boss back in D.C. sent me a…
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I hope I’m not offending a dead author here, but I struggled a bit through The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway. Not that the writing is hard–Hemingway is known for his simplicity — but the style is all his. Though I’ve tried, I haven’t fully been able to enjoy it in any of the…
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Every traveler has a trip in his or her life that has somehow changed them for the better, or at least made their life more colorful or exciting.
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“What do you need? Was what Alice wondered. Why would anyone want to windsurf to Lisbon? And why was it, she wondered, that this was the first thought she had: Her mother would not be worried but pleased. Alice could imagine how her eyes would shine at the thought of Gus courting danger. Alice, therefore,…
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Have you ever suffered from regret? Do you believe in second chances? If you were given the chance to relive the most regrettable days of your life, would you? Author Alexander Rigby looks at these questions in his debut novel, The Second Chances of Priam Wood. As he floats through some kind of afterlife holding…