Drink This Book

"Double Lives" by Mary Monroe - Drink This Book Podcast (Ep. 8)

If you and your identical twin have been swapping places all your lives what harm could it do? Especially, if you both have been fooling everyone including your parents. Well things could get deadly and did in the book Double Lives as Fiona and Leona find out just how tragic lying to yourself and others can be and the consequences that come with those decisions. Set in rural Alabama in the early 1900s through the 1930s, the plot begins against a backdrop of Black Southern life and culture ranging from eating pig ears to drinking moonshine. Twin sisters Leona and Fiona Dunbar are at the center of the storyline and involved in all types of mischief. At first glimpse, they appear to be a normal set of identical twins born to proud parents, Clyde and Mavis Dunbar, in Lexington, Alabama; however, the plot reveals that Leona and Fiona often do not use the best judgment in their daily lives. What starts as fun and prankish behavior, ends in a life of trouble and dysfunction for them both. Theme Drink Rhiskey Double Whiskey Organic Apple Juice Splash of Lime Juice Frozen Fruit Splash of Organic Cranberry Juice

"Silent Patient" by Alex Michealides - Drink This Book Podcast (Ep. 7)

Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word.
Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London.
Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him.
 
Themed Drink and Ingredients - Silent Night
  Passion Fruit Tequlia 
   Orange Liqueur
   Lavender Simple Syrup
   Lime Juice
   Strawberry Lemonade

"Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" by Taylor Jenkins Reid - Drink This Book Podcast (Ep. 6)

What is your price for fame and a new life? Would you lie about your age? Evelyn Herrera describes her humble beginnings in Hell’s Kitchen in Manhattan, her desperation to escape a life of poverty and abuse, and her willingness to use her sexuality to do so: her mother dies when she is young, leaving her alone with her abusive father.
 
Themed Drink 
Pick Your Poison 
Any Mike's Hard Lemonade 
Rose Champagne 

"Wicked" by Gregory Maguire - Drink this Book Podcast (Ep. 5)

If you were born different you looked different and your mother and father treated you like you were the outsider, they treated your younger sister better than you and you also had to look after her and protect her. How would you go about living your life?  Would you have ran and made the same decisions as Elphaba
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (1995) by Gregory Maguire reimagines the central antagonist of the iconic story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which was published in 1900 by author L. Frank Baum and became central to American popular culture through the 1939 film adaptation starring Judy Garland. Allusions to the original story recur throughout film, television, and novels. Decades later, expressions like “we’re not in Kansas anymore” or “somewhere over the rainbow” live on, as do prominent symbols like the Yellow Brick Road and Dorothy’s ruby slippers. In Wicked, Maguire adapts these symbols and stories to give voice to the original’s stock villain, the green-skinned Wicked Witch of the West. In humanizing this antagonist, Maguire questions the stark binary between good and evil. His retelling constructs a magical topsy-turvy world that parallels the socioeconomic and political themes of his contemporary reader’s society. Part revisionist history, part social critical analysis, Wicked employs various literary devices to develop a narrative that transports readers to a setting that is both fantastical and all-too human.
Themed Drinks
Black Magic
Organic Tart Cherry Juice
Organic Beet Juice
Organic Pure Cranberry Juice
Angostura
Nyak Cognac
Chambord Raspberry Liqueur
Blackberry Liqueur
Sprite
Green Sizzle
Green Mint Liqueur
Sparkling Cucumber
Lime Juice
Coconut Rum
Honey Ginger Liqueur

"The Mayor of Maxwell Street" by Avery Cunningham - Drink This Book Podcast (Ep. 4)

"Stay With Me" by Ayobami Adebayo - Drink This Book Podcast (Ep. 3)

Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expected Akin to take several wives, he and Yejide have always agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage--after consulting fertility doctors and healers, trying strange teas and unlikely cures--Yejide is still not pregnant. She assumes she still has time--until her family arrives on her doorstep with a young woman they introduce as Akin's second wife. Furious, shocked, and livid with jealousy, Yejide knows the only way to save her marriage is to get pregnant, which, finally, she does--but at a cost far greater than she could have dared to imagine.
Deep Island Tea 
Vodka 
Gin
Whiskey
Tequila 
Triple Sec 
Splash of lime Juice
Honey and hibiscus brewed Tea
Topped with sparkling rosé and agave and grenadine syrup

"Perfect Peace" by Daniel Black Book Review

What would you do if you were raised as a girl all the way up to the age of 8. Then the moment you ask about periods your mother informs you and the rest of your male siblings that you are in fact a boy and not a girl named Perfect.  You are then stripped down and head shaved and thrown into public at church to your whole congregation and small town that in fact you are a boy named Paul?

"She Started It" BOOK REVIEW!!! (Drink This Book ep 1)

What would you do if you went into middle school on the first day and your best friend betrayed you to be friends with the popular girls? And based on how you react will determine the remainder of your secondary schooling? Also, if you knew you were a bully, and they invited you on a week-long getaway even though you haven’t spoken nor apologized in 10 years; would you go?