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Read Watch & WineShrek by William SteigShrek! is a fantasy comedy picture book published in 1990. Written and illustrated by American book writer and cartoonist William Steig, it is about a repugnant, green ogre who leaves home to see the world and ends up marrying an ugly princess
2025-04-0219 min
Read Watch & WineThe Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila HarrisNella, an editorial assistant, is tired of being the only Black girl at her company, so she's excited when Hazel is hired; but as Hazel's star begins to rise, Nella spirals out and discovers something sinister is going on at the company.
2025-02-0533 min
Read Watch & WineRomancing Mister Bridgerton by Julia QuinnRomancing Mister Bridgerton is a 2002 historical romance novel written by Julia Quinn and published by Avon. It is the fourth novel of Quinn's series of Regency romances about the Bridgerton siblings and tells the story of Colin, the third eldest child of the family.
2025-01-2219 min
Read Watch & WineKillers of The Flower Moon by David GrannReal love crosses paths with unspeakable betrayal as Mollie Burkhart, a member of the Osage Nation, tries to save her community from a spree of murders fueled by oil and greed.
2025-01-0821 min
Read Watch & WineLessons in Chemistry by Bonnie GarmusIn the 1950s, Elizabeth Zott's dream of being a scientist is challenged by a society that says women belong in the domestic sphere; she accepts a job on a TV cooking show and sets out to teach a nation of housewives way more than recipes.
2024-09-0431 min
Read Watch & WineOrion in the Dark by Emma YarlettOrion is scared of a lot of things, but most of all he’s scared of the dark. So one night the Dark decides to take Orion on an adventure. Emma Yarlett’s second picture book combines her incredible storytelling and artwork with die-cut pages that bring the Dark to life.
2024-08-2114 min
Read Watch & WineThe One by John MarrsA simple DNA test is all it takes. Just a quick mouth swab, and soon, you’ll be matched with your perfect partner—the one you’re genetically made for.
That’s the promise made by Match Your DNA. A decade ago, the company announced that they had found the gene that pairs us with our soul mate. Since then, millions of people around the world have been matched. But the discovery has its downsides: test results have led to the breakup of countless relationships and upended the traditional ideas of dating, romance, and love.
Now five...
2024-08-0723 min
Read Watch & WineThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne CollinsYears, before he becomes the tyrannical president of Panem, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow, remains the last hope for his fading lineage. With the 10th annual Hunger Games fast approaching, the young Snow becomes alarmed when he's assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird from District 12. Uniting their instincts for showmanship and political savvy, they race against time to ultimately reveal a songbird and a snake.
2024-07-3128 min
Read Watch & WineBlack Cake by Charmaine WilkersonWe can’t choose what we inherit. But can we choose who we become?
In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett’s death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a black cake made from a family recipe with a long history and a voice recording. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder. The heartbreaking tale Eleanor unfolds, the secrets she still holds back, and the mystery of a long-lost child challenge everything the siblings thought they knew about thei...
2024-07-2423 min
Read Watch & WineDevotion by Adam MakosDevotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy’s most famous aviator duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, and the Marines they fought to defend. A white New Englander from the country club scene, Tom passed up Harvard to fly fighters for his country. Jesse became the Navy’s first black carrier pilot, an African American sharecropper's son from Mississippi, defending a nation that wouldn’t even serve him in a bar.
While much of America remained divided by segregation, Jesse and Tom joined forces as wingmen in Fighter Squadron 32. Adam Makos takes us int...
2024-07-1022 min
Read Watch & WineWhere the Crawdads Sing by Delia OwensFor years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a...
2024-04-1826 min
Read Watch & WineThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerCelie, a poor African-American girl, lives in rural Georgia in the early 1900s. She writes letters to God because her father Alphonso beats and rapes her. Due to the rape, she gives birth to two children, Olivia and Adam, whom Alphonso takes away. A farmer identified as "Mister" (Mr. __) asks to marry her younger sister Nettie, but Alphonso offers him Celie instead. Celie is abused by Mister and mistreated by his prior children. Nettie runs away and stays with Celie, but Mister eventually makes her leave after she refuses his unwanted sexual advances. Nettie promises to write, but Celie...
2024-02-2820 min
Read Watch & WineCharlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald DahlEleven-year-old Charlie Bucket lives in poverty with his parents and grandparents in a town that is home to a world-famous chocolate factory. One day, Charlie's bedridden Grandpa Joe tells him about Willy Wonka, the factory's eccentric owner, and all of his fantastical candies. Rival chocolatiers sent in spies to steal his recipes, forcing Wonka to close the factory and disappear. He reopened years later, but the gates remain locked, and nobody knows who is providing the factory with its workforce.
The next day, the newspaper announces that Wonka has hidden five Golden Tickets in Wonka Bars; the...
2024-01-1528 min
Read Watch & WineLeave the World Behind by Rumaan AlamA magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone wrong
Amanda and Clay head to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they've rented for the week. But with a late-night knock on the door, the spell is broken. Ruth and G. H., an older couple who claim to own the home, have arrived there in a panic. These...
2023-12-2926 min
Read Watch & WineHorton Hears a Who by Dr. SeussHorton Hears a Who is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Seuss Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss. It was published in 1954Elephant Horton finds a speck of dust floating in the Jungle of Nool. Upon investigation of the speck, Horton discovers the tiny city of Who-ville and its residents, the Whos, which he can hear but cannot see. Horton forms a friendship with the mayor of Who-ville, Ned McDodd, and promises to transport Who-ville to safety. However, Horton encounters opposition from his jungle neighbors, who don't want to believe in the existence of Who-ville.
2023-12-1912 min
Read Watch & WineKindred by Octavia E. ButlerKindred (1979) is a novel by American writer Octavia E. Butler that incorporates time travel and is modeled on slave narratives.
The book is the first-person account of a young African-American writer, Dana, who is repeatedly transported in time between her Los Angeles, California home in 1976 with her white husband and an early 19th-century Maryland plantation just outside Easton. There, she meets some of her ancestors: a proud, free Black woman and a white planter who forces her into slavery and concubinage. As Dana stays for more extended periods in the past, she becomes intimately entangled with the p...
2023-11-0830 min
Read Watch & WinePieces of Her by Karin SlaughterOn her 30th birthday, Andrea Oliver celebrates the occasion at a local diner with her mother, Laura. Moments later, she witnesses the unthinkable on a day that would forever change her life. After her mother attempts to stop a shooter from killing more victims, Andrea notices that Laura has flipped the script and watches her violently dispose of the threat. Visibly shaken, Andrea is left with wavering thoughts and conflicted feelings about her mother's actions. Soon after, video footage of the incident at the diner becomes a viral hit, exposing Laura's identity to her past enemies. As Andrea begins...
2023-11-0134 min
Read Watch & WineAlways and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny HanAlways and Forever, Lara Jean is a 2017 novel by American author Jenny Han. It is the third and final installment of the To All the Boys I've Loved Before series. Now in her final year of high school, Lara Jean Song Covey is excitedly looking forward to attending school with her boyfriend, Peter Kavinsky, at the University of Virginia (UVA). Peter has been accepted early on a sports scholarship for lacrosse. When acceptance letters come in, Lara Jean learns she has been rejected. After being wait-listed to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), Lara Jean decided to...
2023-10-2617 min
Read Watch & WineP.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han"P.S. I Still Love You" is a heartwarming continuation of the To All the Boys I've Loved Before series, which delves deeper into the life of Lara Jean Covey as she navigates the complexities of her first real relationship with Peter Kavinsky. The book excels in portraying the emotional turmoil and growth of the characters, giving readers an intimate glimpse into Lara Jean's thoughts and feelings.
2023-09-2018 min
Read Watch & WineA Man called Ove (Otto version) by Fredrik BackmanMeet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon—the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him “the bitter neighbor from hell.” But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn’t always walk around with a smile plastered to his face?
Behind the cranky exterior, there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning, a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove’s mailbox, i...
2023-08-1625 min
Read Watch & WineThe Little Mermaid by Hans Christian AndersenThe Little Mermaid is a literary fairy tale by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. It was first published in 1837 as part of a collection of fairy tales for children. The story follows the journey of a young mermaid willing to give up her life in the sea as a mermaid to gain a human soul.
The Little Mermaid lives in an underwater kingdom with her widowed father (The Sea King), her dowager grandmother, and her five older sisters, born one year apart.
2023-06-1522 min
Read Watch & WineMaid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive by Stephanie LandAt 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother before long, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet. Maid is an emotionally raw, masterful account of Stephanie's years spent serving upper-middle-class America as a "nameless ghost" who quietly shared in her clients' triumphs, tragedies, and deepest secrets. Driven to carve out a better life for her family, she cleaned by day and took online classes by night, writing relentlessly as she worked toward earning a c...
2023-04-1932 min
Read Watch & WineBridgertons #2 - The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia QuinnIn 1814, after years as one of the most notorious rakes of the Anthony, Viscount Bridgerton decides to settle down and carry on the family line. Haunted by his father's death at a young age from a bee sting, Anthony now believes, albeit irrationally, that he will die young, too and does not want the complication of falling in love.
2023-04-0525 min
Read Watch & WineA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle.A Wrinkle in Time is a young adult science fantasy novel by American author Madeleine L'Engle. The main characters – Meg Murry, Charles Wallace Murry, and Calvin O'Keefe – embark on a journey through space and time, from galaxy to galaxy, as they endeavor to rescue the Murry's' father and fight back The Black Thing that has intruded into several worlds.
The novel offers a glimpse into the war between light and darkness and good and evil as the young characters mature into adolescents on their journey.
2023-01-3129 min
Read Watch & WineTiny Pretty Things by Dhonielle Clayton and Sona CharaipotraBlack Swan meets Pretty Little Liars in this drama-packed debut about three perfect girls who will do anything to be the prima ballerina at their elite New York ballet school. Now a major Netflix series!
Being a dancer at New York’s most elite ballet school isn’t easy. Everyone wants to be the prima ballerina, and sometimes you must play dirty. With the competition growing fiercer with every performance and harmless pranks growing ever darker, Bette, June, and Gigi find themselves battling it out to stay at the top. And it’s only a matter of time b...
2022-09-2830 min
Read Watch & WineRWW 100th Episode - Interview with Author - Dhonielle ClaytonBorn and raised in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., Dhonielle spent much of her childhood hiding beneath her grandmother's dining table with a stack of books. As an English teacher at a ballet academy, Clayton rediscovered her passion for children's and young adult literature. To ground herself in the canon, she pursued her Masters in Children's Literature from Hollins University before receiving her MFA in Writing for Children at the New School. She is a former middle school librarian, where she pestered children to read and curated a diverse collection. An avid traveler, Dhonielle's lived in several foreign...
2022-08-3142 min
Read Watch & WineThe Willoughby by Lois LowryConvinced they'd be better off raising themselves, the Willoughby children hatch a sneaky plan to send their selfish parents on vacation. The siblings then embark on their own high-flying adventure to find the true meaning of family.
2022-08-1131 min
Read Watch & WinePassing by Nella LarsenSet primarily in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the 1920s, the story centers on the reunion of two childhood friends—Clare Kendry and Irene Redfield—and their increasing fascination with each other's lives. The title refers to the practice of "racial passing" and is a key element of the novel. Clare Kendry's attempt to pass as white for her husband, John (Jack) Bellew, is a significant depiction in the novel and a catalyst for the tragic events.
2022-07-2823 min
Read Watch & WineNine Perfect Strangers by Liane MoriartyNine people from different walks of life attend a pricey 10-day "Mind and Body Total Transformation Retreat" at a place called the Tranquillum House run by a mysterious Russian woman named Masha. Throughout the course of their retreat, they realize that each of them is battling their own demons and all of them are subjects of an experiment.
2022-03-1634 min
Read Watch & WineThirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherThirteen Reasons Why is a young adult novel written by Jay Asher in 2007 that follows the story of Hannah Baker, a high school freshman, and the thirteen reasons why she commits suicide. Following her death, Hannah leaves behind 7 double-sided cassette tapes detailing the 13 specific people and events that she blames for her demise. Two weeks after her death, these cassette tapes are mailed out with directions to pass the tapes on to the next person on the tape. Hannah's life story is conveyed through these tapes, which are narrated by Hannah herself, and through the point of view of...
2022-03-0338 min
Read Watch & WineBridgertons #1 - The Duke and I by Julia QuinnDaphne Bridgerton, the fourth of eight siblings in her close-knit family, she has formed friendships with the most eligible young men in London. Everyone likes Daphne for her kindness and wit. But no one truly desires her. She is simply too deuced honest for that, too unwilling to play the romantic games that captivate gentlemen.
Amiability is not a characteristic shared by Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings. Recently returned to England from abroad, he intends to shun both marriage and society—just as his callous father shunned Simon throughout his painful childhood. Yet an encounter with his be...
2022-02-0231 min
Read Watch & WineMolly’s Game by Molly BloomMolly Bloom reveals how she built one of the most exclusive, high-stakes underground poker games in the world—an insider’s story of excess and danger, glamour and greed.
In the late 2000s, Molly Bloom, a twentysomething petite brunette from Loveland Colorado, ran the highest stakes, most exclusive poker game Hollywood had ever seen—she was its mistress, its lion tamer, its agent, and its oxygen. Everyone wanted in, few were invited to play.
Hundreds of millions of dollars were won and lost at her table. Molly’s game became the game for those in the know...
2022-01-1931 min
Read Watch & WineAlong Came A Spider by James PattersonAlex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He works and lives in the ghettos of D. C. and looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. He's a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed jackets and likes to relax by banging out Gershwin tunes on his baby grand piano. But he also has two adorable kids of his own, and they are his own special vulnerabilities.
Jezzie Flanagan is the first woman ever to hold a highly sensitive job as supervisor of the Secret Service in Washington...
2022-01-0530 min
Read Watch & WineEverything, Everything by Nicola YoonThe novel centers on 18-year-old Madeline Whittier, who is being treated for severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), also known as "bubble baby disease". Due to this, Madeline is kept inside her house in Los Angeles, where she lives with her mother, a doctor. The story follows 18-year-old Madeline Whittier a half Japanese, half African-American 18-year-old who is being treated by her doctor mother for severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), and therefore is not allowed to leave her house or interact with anything that has not been "sanitized". Her world consists of her mother Pauline, her nurse Carla, and the books she find...
2021-12-2231 min
Read Watch & WineBrave New World by Aldous Huxley,Brave New World is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society that is challenged by only a single individual: the story's protagonist.
2021-12-0830 min
Read Watch & WineMonster by Walter Dean MyersThe novel begins with 16-year-old Steve Harmon writing in his book awaiting his trial for murder. Musing on his short time in prison so far, he decides to record this upcoming experience in the form of a movie screenplay. Kathy O'Brien, Steve's lawyer, informs him of what will happen during the trial. At this stage, only two of the four accused – James King and Steve – will be tried, since the other two accused – Richard "Bobo" Evans and Osvaldo Cruz – have entered into a plea bargain. When the trial first begins, Steve flashes back to a movie he saw in his scho...
2021-10-1326 min
Read Watch & WineTo all the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny HanWhat if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them…all at once?
Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren’t love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she’s written. One for every boy she’s ever loved—five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her eyes only. Until the day her secret letters are mailed...
2021-05-2620 min
Read Watch & WineBreakfast at Tiffany‘s by Truman CapoteIn autumn 1943, the unnamed narrator befriends Holly Golightly. The two are tenants in a brownstone apartment in Manhattan's Upper East Side. Holly (age 18–19) is a country girl turned New York café society, girl. As such, she has no job and lives by socializing with wealthy men, who take her to clubs and restaurants, and give her money and expensive presents; she hopes to marry one of them. According to Capote, Golightly is not a prostitute, but an "American geisha".
Holly likes to shock people with carefully selected tidbits from her personal life or her outspoken viewpoints on var...
2021-05-2024 min
Read Watch & WineYou Should Have Known by Jean Hanee Korelitz and the tv series The UndoingGrace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. Devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son Henry, and the patients she sees in her therapy practice, her days are full of familiar things: she lives in the very New York apartment in which she was raised, and sends Henry to the school she herself once attended.
Dismayed by how women delude themselves, Grace is also the author of a book You Should Have Known, in which she cautions women to really hear what men are...
2021-04-1427 min
Read Watch & WineThe Devil Wears Prada by Lauren WeisbergerAndrea Sachs, a recent graduate of Brown University with a degree in English, moves to New York City with her best friend, Lily, a graduate student at Columbia. Andrea hopes to find a career in publishing and blankets the city with her résumé. She believes she'll be closer to her dream of working for The New Yorker if she can get a job in the magazine industry. She gets a surprise interview at the Elias-Clark Group and is hired as a junior assistant for Miranda Priestly, editor-in-chief of the fashion magazine Runway. Although she knows little of the fa...
2021-03-1720 min
Read Watch & WineHidden Figures by Margot Lee ShetterlyHidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race is a 2016 nonfiction book written by Margot Lee Shetterly. Shetterly started working on the book in 2010. The book takes place from the 1930s through the 1960s when some viewed women as inferior to men. The biographical text follows the lives of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, three mathematicians who worked as computers (then a job description) at NASA, during the space race. They overcame discrimination there, as women and as African Americans. Also featured is Christine Darden, who...
2021-03-1019 min
Read Watch & WineThe Goodlord Bird by James McBrideHenry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857 when the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an argument between Brown and Henry’s master quickly turns violent. Henry is forced to leave town—with Brown, who believes he’s a girl. Over the ensuing months, Henry—whom Brown nicknames Little Onion—conceals his true identity as he struggles to stay alive. Eventually, Little Onion finds himself with Brown at the historic raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859—one of the great catalysts for the Civil Wa...
2021-02-1729 min
Read Watch & WineEnola Holmes Mysteries -The Case of the Missing Marquess by Nancy SpringerOn Enola's fourteenth birthday, her mother disappears, and Sherlock and Mycroft, Enola's brothers, conclude that her mother voluntarily left. Enola is devastated but eventually discovers elaborate ciphers her mother wrote, which leads her to conclude that she left to live with the Romani people and escape Victorian society's confines. Enola finds that her mother left money to fund her escape. When the eldest Mycroft insists that Enola attend boarding school and learn to be a proper lady, she runs away to London instead.
Horrified by her brothers' plans to send her to a boarding school and the p...
2021-01-2024 min
Read Watch & WineLovecraft Country by Matt Ruff review of TV series adaptationAtticus Turner, working in Florida after leaving the army, returns home to Chicago after receiving a mysterious letter from his estranged father, Montrose, saying he had left Chicago to go to Ardham, Massachusetts, where he believed he could find some information on Atticus' mother's family (previously unknown to them). Atticus, his uncle George, and his childhood friend Letitia drive to Ardham to find Montrose. They are chased, accosted, and later nearly murdered by racists on the way.
Once at Ardham, they find a large manor house called Ardham Lodge. Atticus learns that he is the descendant of the Lodge's founder...
2020-12-2335 minRead Watch & WineThe Good Shepherd by C. S. Forester and review of the movie adaptation GreyhoundThe hero of The Good Shepherd is Commander Krause, the captain of the fictional US Navy Mahan-class destroyer USS Keeling in World War II. Krause is in overall command of an escort force protecting an Atlantic convoy in the Battle of the Atlantic, shepherding it through the Mid-Atlantic gap where no antisubmarine aircraft are able to defend convoys. He finds himself in a difficult position. The voyage in question occurs early in 1942, shortly after the United States' entry into the war. Although he is a career Navy officer, with many years of seniority, this is Krause's first wartime mission...
2020-12-0222 min
Read Watch & WineSarah's Key, by Tatiana de RosnaySarah's Key is a novel by Tatiana de Rosnay, first published in its French translation as Elle s'appelait Sarah in September 2006. Two main parallel plots are followed through the book. The first is that of ten-year-old Sarah Starzynski, a Jewish girl born in Paris, arrested with her parents during the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup. Before they go, she locks her four-year-old brother in a cupboard, thinking the family should be back in a few hours. The second plot follows Julia Jarmond, an American journalist living in Paris, who is asked to write an article in honor of the roundup's 60th a...
2020-11-1125 min
Read Watch & WineThe Color Purple, by Alice WalkerTaking place mostly in rural Georgia the story focuses on the life of African-American women in the southern United States in the 1930s, addressing numerous issues including their exceedingly low position in American social culture.
Celie is a poor, uneducated 14-year-old girl living in the South in the early 1900s. She writes letters to God because the man she thought was her father, Alphonso, beats, and rapes her. Alphonso has already impregnated Celie once, a pregnancy that resulted in the birth of a boy named Adam, whom Alphonso also abducts, and Celie thinks he killed him. Celie...
2020-10-2829 min
Read Watch & WineThe Help, by Kathryn StockettThe Help is 2009 about African Americans working in white households in Mississippi during the early 1960s.
The Help is set in the early 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi, and told primarily from the first-person perspectives of three women: Aibileen Clark, Minny Jackson, and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan. Aibileen is a maid who takes care of children and cleans. Her own 24-year-old son, Treelore, died from an accident on his job. In the story, she is tending the Leefolt household and caring for their toddler, Mae Mobley. Minny is Aibileen's friend who frequently tells her employers what she thinks of th...
2020-10-0825 min
Read Watch & WineI know this much is true, by Wally LambThe novel takes place in Three Rivers, Connecticut in the early 1990s. Dominick Birdsey's identical twin, Thomas Birdsey, suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. With medication, Thomas is able to live his life in relative peace and work at a coffee stand, but occasionally, he has severe episodes of his illness. Thinking he is making a sacrificial protest that will stop the Gulf War, Thomas cuts off his own hand while at a public library. Dominick sees him through the ensuing decision not to attempt to reattach the hand, and makes efforts on his behalf to free him from what he...
2020-09-1627 min
Read Watch & WineThe last thing he wanted, by Joan DidionThe Last Thing he wanted is a novel published by Joan Didion.
The story centers on Elena McMahon, a reporter for The Washington Post who quits her job covering the 1984 US Presidential election to care for her father after her mother's death. In an unusual turn of events, she inherits his position as an arms dealer for the U.S. Government in Central America. In this sparsely written, quick-paced narrative, Elena struggles to cope with the spies, American military personnel, and the consequences of her father's errors that are waiting for her on a small island off...
2020-09-0221 min
Read Watch & WineIn the tall grass, by Stephen King and Joe HillIn the Tall Grass is a horror novella by American writers Stephen King and his son Joe Hill.
Cal and Becky Demuth are inseparable siblings (being called Irish twins by their parents, although they are 19 months apart). Becky finds out during her sophomore year of college that she is pregnant, leading the twins' parents to suggest she go live with her aunt and uncle until the baby is born. While on this journey brother and sister enter a field of tall grass to rescue a boy, but they soon realize they cannot escape and something evil lurks in the...
2020-08-1918 min
Read Watch & WineThe Turn of the Screw, by Henry James, book to movie review of several movie adaptations such as, A Dark Place, The Innocents and The TurningThe Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly magazine (January 27 – April 16, 1898). In October 1898 it appeared in The Two Magics, a book published by Macmillan in New York City and Heinemann in London. Classified as both gothic fiction and a ghost story, the novella focuses on a governess who, caring for two children at a remote estate, becomes convinced that the grounds are haunted.
In the century following its publication, The Turn of the Screw became a cornerstone text of academics who subscribed to New Cr...
2020-08-1225 min
Read Watch & WineArtemis Fowl, by Eoin Colfer book to movie adaptationBased on the first two books in author Eoin Colfer wildly popular children's fantasy series, Walt Disney Studios' Artemis Fowl tells the story of adolescent criminal genius Artemis, who captures a vicious fairy, and attempts to harness her magical powers in a bid to rescue his family.
2020-08-0523 min
Read Watch & WineThe Invisible Man, by H.G. Wells, review of the adaptations of several moviesA mysterious man, Griffin, arrives at the local inn owned by Mr. and Mrs. Hall of the English village of Iping, West Sussex, during a snowstorm. The stranger wears a long-sleeved, thick coat and gloves; his face is hidden entirely by bandages except for a fake pink nose; and he wears a wide-brimmed hat. He is excessively reclusive, irascible, unfriendly, and an introvert. He demands to be left alone and spends most of his time in his rooms working with a set of chemicals and laboratory apparatus, only venturing out at night. While Griffin is staying at the inn...
2020-07-2930 min
Read Watch & WineThe Silver Linings Playbook, by Matthew Quick (audio)The book is narrated through the eyes of Pat Peoples, and occasionally Tiffany's through letters. A former history teacher who has moved back to his childhood home in Collingswood, New Jersey, after spending time in a Baltimore psychiatric hospital, Pat believes he has been away only a few months, but soon realizes it has been years, and struggles to piece together his lost memories and what has become of his wife, Nikki. He has a hypothesis that life is a film created by God and that its "silver lining" will be the end of "Apart Time" with Nikki. Pat...
2020-07-2229 min
Read Watch & WineA Dog's Way Home, by Bruce Cameron, book to movie reviewA young dog named Bella is separated from her owner, Lucas, and must find her way home. On her 400-mile journey, the lost dog meets new friends who help her find her way through the Colorado wilderness.
2020-07-1516 min
Read Watch & WineHidden Bodies, by Caroline Kepnes compared to season two of YOU (audio)A compulsively readable follow-up to her widely acclaimed debut novel, You.
Joe Goldberg is no stranger to hiding bodies. In the past ten years, this thirty-something has buried four of them, collateral damage in his quest for love. Now he’s heading west to Los Angeles, the city of second chances, determined to put his past behind him.
In Hollywood, Joe blends in effortlessly with the other young upstarts. He eats guac, works in a bookstore, and flirts with a journalist neighbor. But while others seem fixated on their own reflections, Joe can’t stop looki...
2020-07-0824 min
Read Watch & WineMost Dangerous Game, by Richard Connell book to movie review of several adaptations (audio)"The Most Dangerous Game", also published as "The Hounds of Zaroff", is a short story by Richard Connell on January 19, 1924. The story features a big-game hunter from New York City who falls off a yacht and swims to what seems to be an abandoned and isolated island in the Caribbean, where he is hunted by a Russian aristocrat. The story is inspired by the big-game hunting safaris in Africa and South America that were particularly fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920s.
The story has been adapted numerous times in this episode the following adaptations are reviewed.
2020-07-0138 min
Read Watch & WineFreakshow by James St. James (audio)Meet Billy Bloom, a new student at the ultra-white, ultra-rich, ultra-conservative Dwight D. Eisenhower Academy and drag queen extraordinaire. Actually, ?drag queen? does not begin to describe Billy and his fabulousness. Any way you slice it, Billy is not a typical seventeen-year-old, and the Bible Belles, Aberzombies, and Football Heroes at the academy have never seen anyone quite like him before. But thanks to the help and support of one good friend, Billy?s able to take a stand for outcasts and underdogs everywhere in his own outrageous, over-the-top, sad, funny, brilliant, and unique way.
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2020-06-2427 min
Read Watch & WineDisobedience by Naomi Alderman (audio)Disobedience is the debut novel by British author Naomi Alderman. First published in the UK in March 2006, the novel has since been translated into ten languages. Disobedience follows a rabbi's bisexual daughter as she returns from New York to her Orthodox Jewish community in Hendon, London. Although the subject matter was considered somewhat controversial, the novel was well received and earned Alderman the 2006 Orange Award for New Writers and the 2007 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award.
2020-06-1729 min
Read Watch & WineSimon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli review of the movie titled. Love Simon (audio only)Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda is a 2015 young adult novel and the debut book by American author Becky Albertalli. The coming-of-age story focuses on its titular protagonist Simon Spier, a closeted gay high-school-aged boy who is forced to come out after a blackmailer discovers Simon's e-mails written to another closeted classmate with whom he has fallen in love.
2020-06-1028 min
Read Watch & WineWe the Animals by Justin Torres (audio)We the Animals is the debut novel by the American author Justin Torres. It is a novel about three wild brothers of white and Puerto Rican parentage who live a rough and tumble childhood in rural upstate New York. Scrambling their way through a dysfunctional childhoodrk during the 1980s. The youngest brother, who is the protagonist, eventually breaks away from the rest of the family.
2020-06-0319 min
Read Watch & WineLittle Fires Everywhere by Celeste NgIn 1998, the Richardson home catches fire. Arson is suspected, as there were multiple small fires.
The previous year, 1997, Elena Richardson rents her rental home across town to Mia Warren, an artist, and her teenage daughter, Pearl. Elena's younger son, Moody, who is Pearl's age, develops a crush on Pearl and becomes friends with her. Pearl meets his siblings Lexie, Trip, and Izzy. Pearl, who is used to a transient lifestyle in which her mother scrapes together money, is charmed by the Richardsons and their established home.
Mia works part-time at a Chinese restaurant and sells p...
2020-05-2748 min
Read Watch & WineThe Girl in the Spider's Web by David LagercrantzJournalist Mikael Blomkvist receives a phone call from a source claiming to have information vital to the United States. The source has been in contact with a young female superhacker—a hacker resembling someone Blomkvist knows all too well. The implications are staggering. Blomkvist, in desperate need of a scoop for Millennium, turns to Lisbeth Salander for help. She, as usual, has her own agenda. The secret they are both chasing is at the center of a tangled web of spies, cybercriminals, and governments around the world, and someone is prepared to kill to protect it.
2020-05-2028 min
Read Watch & WineThe Girl who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by Stieg LarssonHaving learned of a secret group within the Swedish Security Service that has committed several constitutional violations against Lisbeth Salander, Mikael Blomkvist and a group of policemen from Swedish Security Service's Constitutional Protection division try to learn who its members are and have Salander cleared of the murder charges against her.
2020-05-1327 min
Read Watch & WineThe Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonMikael Blomkvist is contacted by freelance journalist Dag Svensson with regard to having Millennium publish his exposé on the sex trade in Sweden, which includes implicating government officials. Svensson and his girlfriend are murdered and the police believe Lisbeth Salander is the culprit. Blomkvist works to prove Salander's innocence while also trying to finish Svensson's piece and finds that both are connected.
2020-05-0632 min
Read Watch & WineThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonJournalist Mikael Blomkvist has been convicted of libeling billionaire industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström and wants to escape the media attention. He is hired by industrial tycoon Henrik Vanger under the guise of writing a biography of Henrik and the Vanger family, while really investigating the 40-year-old disappearance of Henrik's niece Harriet. He teams up with the introverted and skilled computer hacker Lisbeth Salander.
2020-04-3034 min
Read Watch & WineThe Earthquake Bird, by Susanna Joneshe grisly headline leaves nothing to the imagination: “Woman’s torso recovered from Tokyo Bay. Believed to be missing British bartender Lily Bridges.” The only suspect is Lucy Fly. Her friend is dead, her lover has disappeared, and as far as anyone is concerned, she’s as good as guilty.
Trapped in the interrogation room, Lucy begins to unravel two stories. One, for the police, is a spare outline, offering more questions than answers. The other–the real one, if you believe her–is a gripping dive into an obsessive mind, revealing the checkered past that brought her to Japan...
2020-04-2218 min
Read Watch & WineMockingjay by Suzanne Collins, review of Part 1 and 2 of the movie.Mockingjay is chronologically the last installment of The Hunger Games series. The book continues the story of Katniss Everdeen, who agrees to unify the districts of Panem in a rebellion against the tyrannical Capitol.
2020-04-1526 min
Read Watch & WineHunger Games: Catching Fire Video PodCastCheck out the Ladies on Video for their review of Catching Fire. Catching Fire is the second book in The Hunger Games series. As the sequel to the 2008 bestseller The Hunger Games, it continues the story of Katniss Everdeen and the post-apocalyptic nation of Panem. Following the events of the previous novel, a rebellion against the oppressive Capitol has begun, and Katniss and fellow tribute Peeta Mellark are forced to return to the arena in a special edition of the Hunger Games.
2020-04-1420 minRead Watch & WineCatching fire, by Suzanne Collins book to movie reviewCatching Fire is the second book in The Hunger Games series. As the sequel to the 2008 bestseller The Hunger Games, it continues the story of Katniss Everdeen and the post-apocalyptic nation of Panem. Following the events of the previous novel, a rebellion against the oppressive Capitol has begun, and Katniss and fellow tribute Peeta Mellark are forced to return to the arena in a special edition of the Hunger Games.
2020-04-0821 min
Read Watch & WineThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, book to movie reviewThe Hunger Games is the first book in the series.
The Hunger Games follows 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, a girl from District 12 who volunteers for the 74th Hunger Games in place of her younger sister Primrose Everdeen. Also selected from District 12 is Peeta Mellark. They are mentored by their district's only living victor, Haymitch Abernathy, who won 24 years earlier and has since led a solitary life of alcoholism.
Peeta confesses his longtime secret love for Katniss in a televised interview prior to the Games. This revelation stuns Katniss, who harbors feelings for Gale Hawthorne, her...
2020-04-0128 min
Read Watch & WineThe Outsider by Stephen King, book to mini series reviewIn Flint City, Oklahoma, police detective Ralph Anderson arrests popular teacher and Little League coach Terry Maitland in front of a crowd of baseball spectators, charging him with raping, mutilating and killing an eleven-year-old boy. Maitland hires his friend and lawyer, Howie Gold, to assist him but Anderson has eyewitnesses and clear forensic evidence pointing to his guilt. In the meantime, eager reporters harass Maitland's wife, Marcy and his two daughters, Sarah and Grace.
District Attorney Bill Samuels tells Anderson to break Maitland's alibi in order to make this an open-and-shut case. Anderson discovers, however, that multiple...
2020-03-2518 min
Read Watch & WineEmma, by Jane Austen, review of the book to movie adaptationEmma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and romantic misunderstandings. It is set in the fictional country village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls, and Donwell Abbey and involves the relationships among people from a small number of families. The novel was first published in December 1815, with its title page listing a publication date of 1816. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian–Regency England. Emma is a comedy of manners, and depicts issues of marriage, sex, age, and social status.
2020-03-1818 min
Read Watch & WineCall of the Wild, by Jack London and the review of the 1935,1772, 1976, 1997 and 2020 movie adaptationsThe Call of the Wild is one of Jack London's most famous novels.
The story follows a dog named Buck, a 140 pound Saint Bernard, and Scotch Shepherd mix. Buck is abducted from a comfortable life as a pet and tossed into the chaos of the Klondike Gold Rush and the brutal realities of frontier life. Buck changes hands several times before landing in the kindly hands of John Thornton. For teachers and students, we offer our The Call of the Wild Study Guide.
Thornton takes ownership of Buck from a trio of ignorant stampeders, intent upon...
2020-03-1122 min
Read Watch & WineThe Rhythm Section Book by Mark Burnell, review of the book to movieThe Rhythm Section begins with the crash of flight NEO027. The crash destroys Stephanie Patrick's life: her family was on board and there were no survivors. Devastated, she drops out of college and her life spins out of control as she enters a world of drugs and prostitution--until a journalist discovers that the crash wasn't an accident. There was a bomb planted on the plane. Filled with rage, and with nothing left to loose, she focuses on one goal: revenge. The opportunity to obtain it arrives quickly when Stephanie is approached and recruited by an extremely covert intelligence organization...
2020-03-0423 min
Read Watch & WineDevil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley, review of book to movieSet in 1948, the story begins in the Watts area of Los Angeles, with Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins. Easy is a Houstonian, from that city's Fifth Ward, who lost his job at a Los Angeles aviation defense plant, and is unable to pay the mortgage on his LA home. Easy is sitting in a bar run by Joppy, a friend who is also from Houston, when a man named DeWitt Albright walks into the bar and offers him a job finding a young woman named Daphne Monet. Monet, a young white woman, is rumored to be hanging out in bars frequented most...
2020-02-2619 min
Read Watch & WineThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot and review of the movieHenrietta Lacks was born in 1920 in Roanoke, Virginia. Henrietta was a 30-year-old, African-American tobacco farmer. On January 29, 1951, she went to John Hopkins Hospital complaining of vaginal bleeding. Upon examination, it was found that she was suffering from an adenocarcinoma in her cervix. A malignant tumor was metastasizing and ravaging her body. Lacks died of cervical cancer in 1951. Her cells were taken from her body without her knowledge and were used to form the HeLa cell line. The HeLa cell lines were the first immortalized human cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An i...
2020-02-1922 min
Read Watch & WinePush, by Shapphire, and the review of the movie adaptation "Precious"Claireece Precious Jones is an obese, illiterate 16-year-old girl who lives in Harlem with her abusive mother Mary. Precious is a few months pregnant with her second child, the result of being raped by her father, also the father of her first child. When her school discovers the pregnancy, it is decided that she should attend an alternative school. Precious is furious, but the counselor later visits her home and convinces her to enter an alternative school, located in the Hotel Theresa, called Higher Education Alternative Each One Teach One. Despite her mother's insistence that she apply for welfare...
2020-02-1219 min
Read Watch & WineA Xmas Peek inside Read, Watch & Wine Podcast StudioTake a peek inside RWW's Christmas Podcast episode where we reviewed all 3 versions of "How The Grinch Stole Christmas". Hear our thoughts about it and what we rated the movies. Do you have any thoughts about any these movies?
2020-02-0627 min
Read Watch & WineJust Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, book to movie reviewJust Mercy is the story of a young lawyer fighting on the frontlines of a country in thrall to extreme punishments and careless justice. The story shadows world-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson as he recounts his experiences and details the case of a condemned death row prisoners whom he fought to free.
2020-02-0526 min
Read Watch & WineDr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting, book to movie review of 1967, 1998 and 2020 versionsJohn Doolittle is a kind-hearted country physician who keeps goldfish in his pond, rabbits in the pantry, white mice in a piano, and a hedgehog in the cellar. He also has an unusual gift: he can talk to animals — a talent that comes in handy, since he prefers treating animals, rather than humans, as his patients.
One day, a mysterious call summons him to Africa, where a serious epidemic has spread among the monkey population. Of course, the good doctor sets out immediately with some of his best friends.
2020-01-2925 min
Read Watch & WineSweet Bitter by Stephanie Danler, book to TV series adaptationTess is 21 when she packs up her things in her car and moves from Ohio to New York City. Knowing nothing and no one she stumbles her way into a job at a semi-prestigious restaurant as a back waitress. The servers and staff are exceptionally tight-knit and take their jobs extremely seriously and Tess does as well. Tess is also drawn to Jake, one of the bartenders, and Simone, a senior server who takes Tess under her wing and begins to train her palate and teach her about wines so that she might one day be able to become...
2020-01-2219 min
Read Watch & WineA Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks, book to movie reviewA walk to remember is a coming-of-age romantic novel written by Nicholas Sparks, about a guy who falls irrevocably in love with a pretty daughter of the Reverend, who ultimately dies of cancer. The story revolves around the young couple and how Jamie embarks love in Landon. The story is of hope and endless love.
2020-01-1523 min
Read Watch & WineThe Giver by Lois Lowry, book to movie adaptation reviewhe Giver is a 1993 American young adult dystopian novel by Lois Lowry. It is set in a society which at first appears to be utopian but is revealed to be dystopian as the story progresses. The novel follows a 12-year-old boy named Jonas. The society has taken away pain and strife by converting to "Sameness", a plan that has also eradicated emotional depth from their lives. Jonas is selected to inherit the position of Receiver of Memory, the person who stores all the past memories of the time before Sameness, as there may be times where one must draw...
2020-01-0821 min
Read Watch & WineHow the Grinch Stole ChristmasHow the Grinch Stole Christmas! is a children's story by Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel written in rhymws verse with illustrations by the author. It follows the Grinch a grumpy, solitary creature who attempts to put an end to Christmas by stealing Christmas-themed items from the homes of the nearby town Whoville on Christmas Eve. Miraculously, the Grinch realizes that Christmas may not all be about money and presents.
2019-12-2523 min
Read Watch & WineA Dogs Journey by Bruce Cameron, book to movie reviewA Dog's Journey is the sequel of A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron. The story starts with Buddy a good dog, an old dog from A Dog's Purpose. Buddy thought his purpose in life was completed by loving and caring for Ethan. Ethan was his human in A Dog's Purpose but he died. A year after A Dog's Purpose Hannah has allowed Gloria and her infant child Clarity June (CJ) to stay with her at the farm after the death of Ethan and Hannah's son, Henry. Gloria takes an immediate dislike to Hannah's old Labrador Retriever, Buddy, who f...
2019-12-1820 min
Read Watch & WineRoom by Emma Donoghue, book to movie reviewJack lives with his Ma in Room, a secured single-room outbuilding containing a small kitchen, a basic bathroom, a wardrobe, a bed, and a TV set. Because it is all he has ever known, Jack believes that only Room and the things it contains (including himself and Ma) are "real." Ma, unwilling to disappoint Jack with a life she cannot give him, allows Jack to believe that the rest of the world exists only on television. Ma tries her best to keep Jack healthy and happy via both physical and mental exercises, keeping a healthy diet, limiting TV-watching time...
2019-12-1124 min
Read Watch & WineThe Notebook by Nicholas Sparks, book to movie reviewThe Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
At thirty-one, Noah Calhoun, back in coastal North Carolina after World War II, is haunted by images of the girl he lost more than a decade earlier. At twenty-nine, socialite Allie Nelson is about to marry a wealthy lawyer, but she cannot stop thinking about the boy who long ago stole her heart. Thus begins the story of a love so enduring and profound it can turn tragedy into triumph, and may even have the power to create a miracle.
2019-12-0416 min
Read Watch & WineA Rage in Harlem/ Five Corner Square/ For Love of Imabelle, by Chester Himes, book to movie adoption (A Rage in Harlem)This episode is a review of the book A Rage in Harlem aka Five corner Square aka For Love of Imabelle by Chester Himes and the movie adoption A Rage in Harlem
A Rage in Harlem" is a ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling New York City's roughest streets in Chester Himes's groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. For love of fine, wily Imabelle, hapless Jackson surrenders his life savings to a con man who knows the secret of turning ten-dollar bills into hundreds--and then he steals from his boss, only to lose the s...
2019-11-2721 min
Read Watch & WineThe Good Liar by Nicholas Searle, book to movie reviewA stunning and suspenseful feat of storytelling, The Good Liar unravels the past of a man who lives to deceive.
Veteran con artist Roy is a born liar and when he meets wealthy widow Betty online, he knows she s an easy mark. In no time at all, he s spinning his web of duplicity and betrayal around her, even moving into her lovely cottage. He is sure his scheme will be a success: She seems ready to build a life with him, and he is ready to reel her in. He s done this before. But...
2019-11-2017 min
Read Watch & WineCaging Skies by Christine Leunens as compared to the movie adaptation, JoJo RabbitAn avid member of the Hitler Youth in 1940s Vienna, Johannes Betzler, discovers his parents are hiding a Jewish girl named Elsa behind a false wall in their home. His initial horror turns to interest—then love and obsession. After his parents disappear, Johannes is the only one aware of Elsa’s existence in the house and the only one responsible for her survival.
2019-11-1325 min
Read Watch & WineDr. Sleep by Stephen King, book to movie reviewFollowing the events of The Shining, after receiving a settlement from the owners of the Overlook Hotel, Danny Torrance remains psychologically traumatized as his mother Wendy slowly recovers from her injuries. Angry ghosts from the Overlook, including the woman from Room 237, still want to find Danny and eventually consume his phenomenal "shining" power. Dick Hallorann, the Overlook's chef, teaches Danny to create lockboxes in his mind to contain the ghosts, including that of former Overlook owner Horace Derwent.
As an adult, Danny (now going by Dan) takes up his father's legacy of anger and alcoholism. Dan spends...
2019-11-0633 min
Read Watch & WineThe Shining by Stephen King, book to movie reviewThe Shining is a horror novel by American author Stephen King. Published in 1977, it is King's third published novel and first hardback bestseller: the success of the book firmly established King as a preeminent author in the horror genre. The setting and characters are influenced by King's personal experiences, including both his visit to The Stanley Hotel in 1974 and his recovery from alcoholism.
The Shining centers on the life of Jack Torrance, an aspiring writer and recovering alcoholic who accepts a position as the off-season caretaker of the historic Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rockies. His f...
2019-10-3022 min
Read Watch & WineThe Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein, book to movie reviewTHE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN is a heartfelt tale narrated by a witty and philosophical dog named Enzo. Through his bond with his owner, Denny Swift, an aspiring Formula One race car driver, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition and understands that the techniques needed on the racetrack can also be used to successfully navigate the journey of life. The film follows Denny and the loves of his life - his wife, Eve, their young daughter Zoe, and ultimately, his true best friend, Enzo.
2019-10-2318 min
Read Watch & WineFifty Shades Freed by E. L. James, book to movie reviewAfter exchanging vows before family and close friends, newlyweds, Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele, set off on a lavish honeymoon around the world, lost in their marital bliss. However, an unexpected break-in at Mr Grey's enterprises will inevitably cut their trip off early. Believing they have left behind shadowy figures from their past, newlyweds Christian and Ana fully embrace an inextricable connection and shared life of luxury. But just as she steps into her role as Mrs. Grey and he relaxes into an unfamiliar stability, new threats could jeopardize their happy ending before it even begins. Will the sins of...
2019-10-1620 min
Read Watch & WineFahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, review of the 1966 and 2018 adaptationsFahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury, first published in 1953. The novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found.
Guy Montag is a "fireman" employed to burn the possessions of those who read outlawed books. He is married but has no children. One fall night while returning from work, he meets his new neighbor, a teenage girl named Clarisse McClellan, whose free-thinking ideals and liberating spirit cause him to question his life and his own perceived happiness. Montag returns home to find that his wife...
2019-10-0919 min
Read Watch & WineBoy Erased: A Memoir by Garrard Conley, book to movie reviewCheck out this latest episode, when the ladies of Read, Watch, and Wine review the book "Boy Erased: A Memoir" by Garrard Conley.
Boy Erased tells the story of Jared (Hedges), the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, who is outed to his parents (Kidman and Crowe) at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program - or be permanently exiled and shunned by his family, friends, and faith. Boy Erased is the true story of one young man's struggle to find himself while being forced to question...
2019-10-0526 min
Read Watch & WineFifty Shades Darker by E. L. James, book to movie reviewPublisher Summary:
The second book in the Fifty Shades Trilogy.
When a wounded Christian Grey tries to entice a cautious Ana Steele back into his life, she demands a new arrangement before she will give him another chance. As the two begin to build trust and find stability, shadowy figures from Christian's past start to circle the couple, determined to destroy their hopes for a future together.
Dont forget to check out the review of Book 1 Fifty Shades of Grey.
Contains Spoliers
2019-10-0216 min
Read Watch & WineA Dogs Purpose by Bruce Cameron, book to movie reviewA Dog's Purpose is a 2010 novel written by American author W. Bruce Cameron. The book chronicles a dog's journey through four lives via reincarnation and how he looks for his purpose through each of his lives.
2019-09-2520 min