Are These Books Drunk?

65 - Welcome back for another happy hour with your book club BFFs!  This week we continue our chat about Live Your Life by Amanda Kloots with Anna Kloots while sipping on an Oh Canada. We talk about moments that epitomize the love between each of us and our spouses, the meanings behind our special numbers and play a fun game of Hooray For... in honor of Amanda and Anna's T-Shirt business.

Pages Discussed:  Chapters 11-15

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64 - Grab a much-needed cocktail and join us for part 2 of our chat about Live Your Life by Amanda Kloots with Anna Kloots.  We're sipping on a caffeinated cocktail to help Wake Up Nick as we talk about the importance of religion to Amanda and answer some questions about the role religion does or doesn't play in our own lives, reminisce on meeting our future in-laws for the first time, and race against the clock to finish the episo...

63 - Come join us for another happy hour discussing our last book of Season 2!  This week we start our discussion about Live Your Life by Amanda Kloots with Anna Kloots while sipping on a decandently sweet From Broadway With Love. Mariana is officially back from maternity leave and rejoins us as we chat about small NYC memories that make it home, how our lives have changed since COVID, and how long we'd want our spouses to grieve u...

62 - Happy Thirsty Thursday!!  Time for one last happy hour discussing The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins. This week we're sipping on a smoky & spicy Up In Smoke as we RATE THE BOOK(!), talk parasitic friendships and manipulation, and catch up with a very special guest who just drops in for a chat. We also find out whether Brandi's epic theory from weeks past has paid off.... Next week we start our final book of the season!

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61 - Time for another happy hour chatting about The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins. This week we're...taking it easy and drinkin' A Glass of Wine.  It's par for the course in an episode where we realize in real time that Brandi thought she'd read all of the pages....but didn't.  We speculate some more on Brandi's theory from last week, play a fun little game called The Top Ten Completely Insane Red Flags Jane Ignores, and we talk ...

60 - Welcome back for another happy hour with your book club BFFs as we continue our chat about The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins. This week we're savoring the emerald green Mrs. Rochester. We talk about our own experiences of a contradiction Jane seems to be experiencing within herself: loving the comfort she gets from Eddie and yet hating that she needs it. We explore changes we've made in our lives we once swore we could never...

59 - Happy #ThirstyThursday!  This week we start The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins while sipping on The Great Jane.  Emma gives a very comprehensive list of red flags that should send you running the other way while we divulge some of our own red flags of dating lives past.  We chat about times in our pasts when, like Jane, we've been in positions of huge disparity between ourselves and our employers, AND we've got a juicy Throwb...

58 - Grab your cocktail and join us for our final chat on The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. This week we're drinking a punny Cereal Killer while discussing endings we pre-mourned as all of Chicago seems to have pre-mourned the end of the fair, and our mixed feelings of empathy for people who do bad things. AND since it's our final chat on the subject - we RATE this book! Just how drunk is it?  Listen and find out!

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57 - Pull up a barstool, grab a drink and join us for Part 3 of our chat about The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. We're sipping away on a My Fair Lady this week as we discuss the magic of the fair, things that could have gone very wrong if we hadn't listened to what our "guts" were telling us and story elements that need closure as we finish up next week. We also play a very silly round of The Top Ten Showstoppers H.H. Hol...

56 - Welcome back for another happy hour chatting away about The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson while sipping away on a Chicago Cocktail.  We discuss the unfair treatment of women and moments in our lives when we've felt the sting of being treated differently because of our gender.  In talking about the momentous meeting of the great minds, we talk about moments in our lives when we felt we were on the precipice of somethin...

55 - Come on in and join us for our first happy hour chatting about The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson and our first happy hour without our dear Mariana who is officially on a maternity break.  We drown our sorrows with a Behind Blue Eyes as we chat about the blue eyes of our two protagonists: Daniel H. Burnham, the ambitious visionary behind the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and H.H. Holmes, the devilish yet charming young do...

54 - Join us for happy hour with very special guest Patricia Engel, author of Infinite Country!  In Patricia's honor, we drink an Aguardiente Sour and a Piña Sour for soon-to-be-mama Mariana.  We talk about the Colombian myths woven throughout the story and how Patricia's parents kept her Colombian culture alive despite her having grown up in New Jersey.  We ask about her parent's immigration story and whether that was a jumping of...

53 - Welcome to our last happy hour chatting about The Midnight Library by Matt Haig! This week we're sipping on the Corpse Reviver #2 and an Alive Elixir for Mama Mariana.  We chat about what is true for us right now in this moment in honor of Nora's I AM ALIVE statement, dive into the many sayings about time and how we relate, and Brandi recommends a piece of music featuring real whale sounds: And God Created Great Whales.  And f...

52 - Get back over here for another happy hour chatting about The Midnight Library by Matt Haig! This week we're sipping on a (not furry) Schrodinger's Cat and a yummy Peaches and Cream for Mama Mariana. We talk about the idea that life only gives us what we can handle. In talking about the many lives of Nora Seed, we talk about the many lives we'd like to live and bucket list items we wanna check off in this life, and we play a fu...

51 - Welcome back for cocktails and Part 2 of our chat on The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. This week we're sipping on a Polar Bear, and a cute lil Teddy Bear for Mama Mariana. We talk about depression, as it seems to be a big struggle of Nora's. We chat about our personal definitions of success, relationships with dads, and....we get very (very!) silly about the Olympics.

Pages Discussed:  71-143 (End of chapter "Expectation")

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50 - Welcome back for our 50th episode (woot! woot!) and our first happy hour chatting about The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. This week we're sipping on an appropriately green Death in the Afternoon, and an appropriately titled Birth in the Afternoon for our soon-to-be-mommy Mariana. We chat about regrets we wish we could go back and undo, alternate lives we'd like to explore if we got access to our own Midnight Libraries, and wh...

49 - Join us for a bonus happy hour discussing Taylor Jenkins Reid's short story Evidence of the Affair while we sip away on a Love Letter...and an adorable non-alcoholic Pen Pal for Mami Mariana. We talk about the expectations that come with getting married, whether or not we've ever cheated, and we come up with some fun alternate endings: the final letter we would each tack on to the end of the story.

Chapters Discussed:  All of...

48 - Join us for one last happy hour chatting about Infinite Country by Patricia Engel while sipping on special guest host AnaMaria Correa Cardenas' (AKA Mariana's mom) favorite drink: a Tequila Reposado Neat. We get the skinny on AnaMaria's move to the United States from Colombia and her epic love story with husband Juan. We chat about apology letters we've thought about sending, moments when our parents let us go, whether we've e...

47 - It's time for another happy hour with your Book Club BFFs!  This week we keep going with Infinite Country by Patricia Engel while sipping on yet another incredibly refreshing Bartender Riccardo Original:  A Karina Kiwi.  (Sub Ritual Zero Proof's Tequila for a yummy mocktail version!)  We dig deep into generational traumas that may have impacted each of our families, where we each consider "home" to be, and the mantras and stor...