17.5 Adding to Your TBR: Stories of Mental Health and Addiction

In this week’s bonus episode, Kayla and Taylor discuss some books about mental health and addiction to add to your TBR, and go on a tangent about how not to address a letter. 

Books, etc. discussed in this episode:

• The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound

• Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

• The Last Confessions of Sylvia P. by Lee Daniel Kravetz

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

• Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

• The Faces by Tove Ditlevsen

• There There by Tommy Orange

• The Removed by Brandon Hobson

• All’s Well by Mona Awad

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Here is the cocktail recipe for next week’s episode if you want to drink along with us!

The Nellie via Carla Davis at 1428elm.com

INGREDIENTS

2 oz Empress 1908 Indigo Gin

1 oz honey simple syrup

1 egg white

½ oz lemon juice (or juice from 2 lemon wedges)

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Combine gin, honey simple syrup, and egg white in a shaker; shake dry (no ice) for 20-30 seconds, as hard as you can. You can add a blender ball to help create the frothy foam you are trying to achieve with the egg white.

2. Add ice, remove blender ball (if using), and shake again 3-5 seconds, until the shaker starts to get cold. Do not over shake, as the foam will break and fall flat.

3. Strain into your glass of choice. Immediately before drinking, add the lemon juice to the drink for the “ghostly apparition” to appear.

4. For the honey simple syrup: heat ½ cup honey, ½ cup sugar, and 1 cup water and bring to a simmer. Let cook until desired thickness. Note: it will appear thin and runny in the pan, but when cooled, it will have a thicker syrup consistency.