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Happy Easter to all who celebrate today! 🐣🐰✝️💐 I wanted to post this before going to my in-laws for lunch 😊

#TopReads2024 continues with my March pick🍹🥃🚺🤘 “Girly Drinks” was a fascinating read and I learned SO much! I loved O‘Meara‘s writing style, I read several paragraphs out loud to my husband either because they were interesting or because it was funny. I will definitely check out her other books 👏👏👏

The 3 emojis to describe this book are: ‼️🙄🤣

‼️: Holy cow, did this REALLY happen?! Both in terms of good and bad
🙄: -Sigh- Of course this happened
🤣: O‘Meara writes in such a way that even though I‘m reading a non-fiction book, I am cracking up with her humorous commentary. Probably not a plus for some, but I LOVED it. If you read 1 book during March, which is Women‘s History Month, make it this one 💪

1. I love a good sour, gose, or pool-side beer (think bud light lime, sorry-not-sorry 😆), but lately I‘ve been inspired to try to make Mai tais! I had a plan to track down the “best” of them in Honolulu, and now I‘m obsessed with recreating my fave.

2. Outside! I got a swinging seat/nest set up under our oak and I can spend hours in it. Need a good way to Mai tai there, tho…. 🍹

Thanks for the fun memories! #twofortuesday

If I wanted to be charitable, I could say that what this book lacks in depth, it makes up for in breadth, and that O'Meara is a very engaging writer. The latter is true, and the former kind of is, too. All of known history, or rather the parts involving women and alcohol, are covered. Unfortunately, it's so wide a topic that the analysis is shallow or missing altogether. O'Meara isn't a historian, and this book is much too glossy for my taste.

Pretty disappointed that when it comes to the Prohibition era, O'Meara glosses over or straight up ignore some real issues that lead to women being one of the strongest supporters of alcohol prohibition. Domestic violence is mentioned (barely), husbands drinking up the entire food and housing budget isn't even mentioned. Unfortunately "alcohol is awesome" seems to be her only thesis.

It's not unengaging, and there's footnotes, but I still wish it was more serious in tone.

Oh great, it's trying to be Fun.
I just want all my nonfiction to read like anthropology textbooks, is that a crime?

Thanks for the book giveaway @wanderinglynn
Paired here with my drink of choice, rye whiskey 😁
#300kbirthdaygiveaway

While reading Girly Drinks, I grew increasingly interested in the books O‘Meara mentions. And my husband found them for me!! I can not wait to go through Beeton‘s Household Management and Bartenders Guide!

#fbf to my favorite books of 2021, which I hadn‘t posted earlier because I couldn‘t find a format that I liked. I don‘t think anything sums up 2022 better than the phrase “Good enough”. #heartstopper #homesickpilots #princessfloralinda #yousexything #wearetheashes #girlydrinks #lostgirls #neverwhere #libraryofthedead

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A thorough history of booze and the badass women who‘ve revolutionized the industry. This is smart, funny, and truly informative! Whose idea was it to dip Makers Mark in red wax to differentiate their bottles? A woman. That‘s merely one example in a book full of unsurprising, if I‘m being honest, facts. A great gift book!

Seemed fitting to start the tagged book just before Balance and Bubbles yoga class. 🧘🏻‍♀️

My #LetterG rec is Girly Drinks. An excellent non-fiction that explores women's role in the history of alcohol, from the development, to gendered drinking social norms, and marketing. Very interesting and written in the author's distinct voice (which u may know from the podcast Reading Glasses): informative, thoughtful, and humorous.

#alphabetgame @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

An amazing book full of info and history regarding women & alcohol. Women played key roles regarding alcohol - manufacturing, promotion, production. I listened to the book and it was great but I want to buy it & highlight all the amazing info. Every woman should read this to know how badass women of history are and every man should read it to be reminded how badass we are.

“All drinks are girly drinks.” Mallory O‘Meara has received a James Beard award for this entertaining & fiercely feminist cultural history of women & alcohol. She starts in the palaeolithic, moving through ancient Sumer, medieval times & all the way up to prohibition, tiki bars etc. She writes about women who are leaders in their fields now: brewmasters & bartenders around the world. Audiobook read with enthusiasm by the author.

I sum up my latest week of reading, plus give a little tour of my garden:

Friday Reads June 10 - So many journeys through books...
https://youtu.be/eNQdQ8GH_cU

Maybe someday companies shilling skinny drinks will realize that the last thing a woman needs after a long day is to pick up a bottle that is going to body shame her. Instead, they might use their enormous marketing power to sell women a drink that isn‘t infused with self-hatred.

Party punches like jungle juice are a common drink at college parties. It‘s usually a mildly revolting mix of extremely high ABV grain alcohol, cheap vodka, juices & sodas. The problem is that one full plastic red cup of this mix is usually 5 to 7 servings of alcohol, meaning that drinking one whole cup already constitutes binge drinking. Students, however, consider that “one drink.”

I never seem to leave a late shift at the library without a stack of new checkouts! Excited to start some of these this weekend 📚

Fun history of women and alcohol. Easy-going, not academic. Audiobook read by the author.

Great read! I love all the history of women, alcohol, and culture.

Someone set me loose on Elliot Bay for the first time in two years (I WALKED there!) I came for a magazine, didn't find it, left with another magazine and three books. Their cafe is still closed tho.

Between litsy swaps and gifts and an impulse bookshop.org order, Valentine's Day felt like Christmas morning 🎁📚😍
My boyfriend laughed and said he didn't have to get me anything since I had all this #bookmail to open 😂

Super fun book! I love Mallory and the Reading Glasses podcast and have also been known to enjoy a libation, so I was really looking forward to this one. Full of cool facts, and I appreciated that lots of sociological/intersectional feminist analysis was included.

LOVING THIS new non-fiction. Funny, informative, and just a really good time.

Pairs well with a seasonal cocktail or pumpkin porter 🍻🎃

📚 Tagged book is the last one on Goodreads. I haven't been using the Litsy TBR much, but Trejo on that.

🍎 I'm always in the mood for a good apple. Dragonfruit is reserved as a special treat

📘 I'm about to crack into She Who Became the Sun

💞 My (now) wife and the life we are building together

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

I absolutely loved Lady from the Black Lagoon, and I can't wait to dig into Girly Drinks in October! Picture from the author's Instagram video