In this week’s episode, Kayla and Taylor discuss Sulari Gentill’s 2022 murder mystery The Woman in the Library. Topics include whether the pandemic should be included in contemporary fiction, inception narratives, and garden snails. Plus, a murder takes place ON THIS VERY PODCAST (dun dun duuuuuun)!
This week’s drink: Ward Eight via liquor.com
INGREDIENTS:
2 ounces rye whiskey
1/2 ounce lemon juice, freshly squeezed
1/2 ounce orange juice, freshly squeezed
2 teaspoons grenadine
Garnish: 2 or 3 speared cherries
INSTRUCTIONS:
Add the rye whiskey, lemon and orange juices and grenadine to a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled.
Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
Garnish with speared cherries.
Current reads, recommendations, and links:
After She Wrote Him by Sulari Gentill
56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard
The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Becoming a Gardener: What Reading and Digging Taught Me About Living by Catie Marron
Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education by Michael Pollan
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