Are These Books Drunk?

Nov 25 2021 68 ep. 67 mins

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Hi, we're Mariana, Emma and Brandi! This is your book club with a twist, and we are your happy hour girlfriends. Each month we’ll announce a new book and discuss a few chapters each week, while sipping on a curated cocktail. Check out our Instagram @AreTheseBooksDrunk to find out what our first book and cocktail pairing are, so that you can read along and sip along with us, 'cause it's always happy hour here! New episodes every Thursday.

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Live Your Life - Part 4

Nov 25 2021 56 mins

66 - Join your happy hour BFFs for our last happy hour of Season 2 and our last happy hour discussing Live Your Life by Amanda Kloots with Anna Kloots. This week, we're sipping on an aptly named Guardian Angel as we talk about all of the wonderful things we'll take away from Amanda's and Nick's tragic story, favorite books of our second season and in honor of Thanksgiving we play a

Live Your Life - Part 3

Nov 18 2021 61 mins

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 bus

Live Your Life - Part 2

Nov 11 2021 47 mins

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 ti

Live Your Life - Part 1

Nov 04 2021 61 mins

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 COV

The Wife Upstairs - Part 4

Oct 28 2021 61 mins

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

The Wife Upstairs - Part 3

Oct 21 2021 64 mins

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 Compl

The Wife Upstairs - Part 2

Oct 14 2021 60 mins

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 w

The Wife Upstairs - Part 1

Oct 07 2021 55 mins

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

The Devil in the White City - Part 4

Sep 30 2021 49 mins

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!

The Devil in the White City - Part 3

Sep 23 2021 53 mins

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 ve