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.
Episodes
Thursday Nov 25, 2021
Thursday Nov 25, 2021
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 fun round of The Tom Terrific Titillating Turkey/Tofurkey Top Ten Moments of Season 2.
Pages Discussed: All of 'em!
Stay tuned on our Insta @AreTheseBooksDrunk for updates on Season Three so that you can read along and sip along with us!
Episode Credits
- Special Appearance: Riccardo Roggeri
- Music: Jimmy Fontanez, Media Right Productions, Text Me Records, Nico Staf, An Jone, Carmen Maria & Edu Espinal
- Logo and Art: Chad Hudson
- Hosts: Mariana Cardenas, Emma Orelove & Brandi Bravo
Thursday Nov 18, 2021
Thursday Nov 18, 2021
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 business.
Pages Discussed: Chapters 11-15
Next Week: We finish this book!
Join us again for Happy Hour next Thursday, and follow us on Insta @AreTheseBooksDrunk for updates on our next episode & cocktail pairing so that you can read along and sip along with us!
Episode Credits
- Special Appearance: Riccardo Roggeri
- Music: Jimmy Fontanez, Media Right Productions, Text Me Records, Nico Staf, An Jone, Carmen Maria & Edu Espinal
- Logo and Art: Chad Hudson
- Hosts: Mariana Cardenas, Emma Orelove & Brandi Bravo
Thursday Nov 11, 2021
Thursday Nov 11, 2021
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 time, and race against the clock to finish the episode as Baby Laurette leaves Mariana a special gift.
Pages Discussed: Chapters 5-10
Next Week: Chapters 11-15
Join us again for Happy Hour next Thursday, and follow us on Insta @AreTheseBooksDrunk for updates on our next episode & cocktail pairing so that you can read along and sip along with us!
Episode Credits
- Special Appearance: Riccardo Roggeri
- Music: Jimmy Fontanez, Media Right Productions, Text Me Records, Nico Staf, An Jone, Carmen Maria & Edu Espinal
- Logo and Art: Chad Hudson
- Hosts: Mariana Cardenas, Emma Orelove & Brandi Bravo
Thursday Nov 04, 2021
Thursday Nov 04, 2021
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 COVID, and how long we'd want our spouses to grieve us before moving on.
Pages Discussed: Chapters 1-4
Next Week: Chapters 5-10
Join us again for Happy Hour next Thursday, and follow us on Insta @AreTheseBooksDrunk for updates on our next episode & cocktail pairing so that you can read along and sip along with us!
Episode Credits
- Special Appearance: Riccardo Roggeri
- Music: Jimmy Fontanez, Media Right Productions, Text Me Records, Nico Staf, An Jone, Carmen Maria & Edu Espinal
- Logo and Art: Chad Hudson
- Hosts: Mariana Cardenas, Emma Orelove & Brandi Bravo
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
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 week we start our final book of the season!
Pages Discussed: Chapters 29-THE END
Next Week: Live Your Life by Amanda Kloots (Chapters 1-4)
Join us again for Happy Hour next Thursday, and follow us on Insta @AreTheseBooksDrunk for updates on our next episode & cocktail pairing so that you can read along and sip along with us!
Episode Credits
- Special Appearance: Riccardo Roggeri
- Music: Jimmy Fontanez, Media Right Productions, Text Me Records, Nico Staf, An Jone, Carmen Maria & Edu Espinal
- Logo and Art: Chad Hudson
- Hosts: Mariana Cardenas, Emma Orelove & Brandi Bravo
Thursday Oct 21, 2021
Thursday Oct 21, 2021
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 Completely Insane Red Flags Jane Ignores, and we talk about parts of our lives that we would want to stay the same if we somehow became overnight successes.
Pages Discussed: Chapters 21-28
Next Week: We finish this dang book!
Join us again for Happy Hour next Thursday, and follow us on Insta @AreTheseBooksDrunk for updates on our next episode & cocktail pairing so that you can read along and sip along with us!
Episode Credits
- Special Appearance: Riccardo Roggeri
- Music: Jimmy Fontanez, Media Right Productions, Text Me Records, Nico Staf, An Jone, Carmen Maria & Edu Espinal
- Logo and Art: Chad Hudson
- Hosts: Mariana Cardenas, Emma Orelove & Brandi Bravo
Thursday Oct 14, 2021
Thursday Oct 14, 2021
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 we've made in our lives we once swore we could never see ourselves making. And Brandi *conjures* up a whopper of a theory. Get ready for a very silly episode.
Pages Discussed: Chapters 11-20
Next Week: Chapters 21-28
Join us again for Happy Hour next Thursday, and follow us on Insta @AreTheseBooksDrunk for updates on our next episode & cocktail pairing so that you can read along and sip along with us!
Episode Credits
- Special Appearance: Riccardo Roggeri
- Music: Jimmy Fontanez, Media Right Productions, Text Me Records, Nico Staf, Carmen Maria & Edu Espinal
- Logo and Art: Chad Hudson
- Hosts: Mariana Cardenas, Emma Orelove & Brandi Bravo
Thursday Oct 07, 2021
Thursday Oct 07, 2021
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 and our employers, AND we've got a juicy Throwback Thursday update about our December 2020 Book Pick Three Women by Lisa Taddeo.
Pages Discussed: Chapters 1-10
Next Week: Chapters 11-20
Join us again for Happy Hour next Thursday, and follow us on Insta @AreTheseBooksDrunk for updates on our next episode & cocktail pairing so that you can read along and sip along with us!
Episode Credits
- Special Appearance: Riccardo Roggeri
- Music: Jimmy Fontanez, Media Right Productions, Text Me Records, Nico Staf, Carmen Maria & Edu Espinal
- Logo and Art: Chad Hudson
- Hosts: Mariana Cardenas, Emma Orelove & Brandi Bravo
Thursday Sep 30, 2021
Thursday Sep 30, 2021
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! Just how drunk is it? Listen and find out!
Deep Dive Recommendation: Dr. Death
Pages Discussed: All of 'em!
Next Week: The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins (Chapters 1-10)
Join us again for Happy Hour next Thursday, and follow us on Insta @AreTheseBooksDrunk for updates on our next episode & cocktail pairing so that you can read along and sip along with us!
Episode Credits
- Special Appearance: Riccardo Roggeri
- Music: Jimmy Fontanez, Media Right Productions, Text Me Records & Nico Staf
- Logo and Art: Chad Hudson
- Hosts: Mariana Cardenas, Emma Orelove & Brandi Bravo
Thursday Sep 23, 2021
Thursday Sep 23, 2021
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 very silly round of The Top Ten Showstoppers H.H. Holmes Pitched for the World's Fair. Yiiiiiiiiiikes.
Deep Dive Recommendation: American Ripper
Pages Discussed: 198-298 (Acquiring Minnie - Claustrophobia)
Next Week: We finish this damn book!
Join us again for Happy Hour next Thursday, and follow us on Insta @AreTheseBooksDrunk for updates on our next episode & cocktail pairing so that you can read along and sip along with us!
Episode Credits
- Special Appearance: Riccardo Roggeri
- Music: Jimmy Fontanez, Media Right Productions, Text Me Records & Nico Staf
- Logo and Art: Chad Hudson
- Hosts: Mariana Cardenas, Emma Orelove & Brandi Bravo