For the month of May we read Mandy McGinnis’ YA debut novel, Not a Drop to Drink and Christina Lauren’s first in the Wild Seasons series, Sweet Filthy Boy (see us talk to them about it here).
We loved both of these books, but as usual in our booziest of hangouts, we talked about fanfiction and Billy Burke. Okay, maybe we’ve never talked about Billy Burke before, but this time we did. A Lot.
If you missed the Hangout, here it is:
And if you don’t have an hour, here are the highlights:
0:43 Bekah talks some Book Club business
3:11 Welcome to our friend, Carter, an expert in root vegetables and dystopian cooking.
An OG Twilight Friend
4:33 Every month the pressing question is: What are we drinking? This month: book club is sponsored by Costco.
7:30 Kicking off the discussion of Not a Drop to Drink with the question: What do we think about the portrayal of Lynn? Too young/too old?
10:12 Is it fair for Lynn’s Mother to instill that sense of brutality in Lynn? Do we blame her?
12:42 Did anyone else think that Stebbs (when he first shows up) was going to be the love interest?
14:03 NEVA and VERA and LYNN and LUCY … and I can’t keep these bitches straight.
15:12 Real quick interruption by Beth’s husband who decides to go to bed.
16:31 Do we think this is a dystpoian world that is out there soon?
18:13 Carter makes a wishlist for the sequel that the author include recipes and how-tos for what they are eating.
19:22 SPOILER ALERT: what is the point of a sequel when …. you know who is a crispy Pringle?
20:54 Great question from our twitter pal, Cara: Did Lynn have sexual feelings before Eli?
22:00 Real Quick Twilight Timeout
22:54 WHY is Lynn so super naive about sex when she has specific jealousies?
Beth: not buying it
25:35 How far in the future do we think this is … and we tell Bekah that water dousing is a thing.
27:00 Would YOU have left the pond?
30:15 KFM Stebbs, Eli and Green Hat. Harder than you think.
36:00 We have a real quick tweed serious discussion about Green Hat.
36:50 Great thoughts from twitter guys: Kristin Leigh and TheColdWoman
38:45 Final thumbs up for Not a Drop
42:25 Time to talk about Sweet Filthy Boy: it’s about sex in France.
43:00 Is this NA?
46:09 No matter what, at least what we’re reading isn’t published One Direction RPF.
51:30 Thoughts on an erotic romance that starts with marriage?
56:21 Real Quick Outlander Timeout: next time on Talking Outlander, Sexy Jamie
59:00 Aaaaaand next month …
Boozy Book Club for June
This month we are reading the first in Sarah J. Maas’s Throne of Glass series.
After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin. Her opponents are men-thieves and assassins and warriors from across the empire, each sponsored by a member of the king’s council. If she beats her opponents in a series of eliminations, she’ll serve the kingdom for three years and then be granted her freedom.
Celaena finds her training sessions with the captain of the guard, Westfall, challenging and exhilirating. But she’s bored stiff by court life. Things get a little more interesting when the prince starts to show interest in her… but it’s the gruff Captain Westfall who seems to understand her best.
Then one of the other contestants turns up dead… quickly followed by another.
Can Celaena figure out who the killer is before she becomes a victim? As the young assassin investigates, her search leads her to discover a greater destiny than she could possibly have imagined.
This a trilogy that is concluding in September, and according to Bekah … EVERYONE at BEA was chomping at the bit to get a copy of Heir of Fire. I know some of you have already read Throne of Glass (I have), but it’s a good time to read the whole series since it’s ending soon.
Optional Book:
Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour:
A love letter to the craft and romance of film and fate in front of—and behind—the camera from the award-winning author of Hold Still.
A wunderkind young set designer, Emi has already started to find her way in the competitive Hollywood film world.
Emi is a film buff and a true romantic, but her real-life relationships are a mess. She has desperately gone back to the same girl too many times to mention. But then a mysterious letter from a silver screen legend leads Emi to Ava. Ava is unlike anyone Emi has ever met. She has a tumultuous, not-so-glamorous past, and lives an unconventional life. She’s enigmatic…. She’s beautiful. And she is about to expand Emi’s understanding of family, acceptance, and true romance.
Please talk all about these books on the Goodreads forum during the month! Your thoughts and comments really help us narrow down what you want us to talk about each month ( and we need all the help we can get not rambling and going off on tangents about Twilight, Outlander or sex — or all three).
