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Books and Booze Club: The Girl With All The Gifts and a Zombie

4/8/2020

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This weeks read is The Girl With All The Gifts by M.R. Carey. This is essentially a post-apocalyptic zombie story so if you’re experiencing any anxiety about our current situation you might want to take a pass on reading this right now. If you already started reading it and are now pissed and having a panic attack…I’m sorry, my bad. I actually do mean that, because even though I think that I’m pretty unflappable about these kinds of things, this book was actually a little scary. Even though it might have been the part that scared me the most, I’m in love with the creativeness of using a fungus as the pathogen. I think there is a real lesson about plant-blindness and the earth reclaiming itself from humankind, but maybe I’m overthinking it. If you’ve read this book, what did you think of it? Did you find it scary? Do you think Miss Justineau got what she deserved in the end?
A Zombie was the obvious choice to accompany this book, especially since I’ve already made a Corpse Reviver… I did a little research, and it turns out that there are about a thousand different recipes for a Zombie. This is because Donn of Don the Beachcomber fame, the original creator, was totally paranoid and encoded the recipe, listing ingredients by numbers that corresponded to unlabeled bottles. Thanks to Beachbum Berry’s diligence most of the original recipe has been cobbled together, including the mysterious Don’s Mix. Supposedly, Donn referred to this drink as “the mender of broken dreams” so drinking one of these will make you feel a bit better if this book freaked you out, no more than two as per Donn’s instructions. If you want to read more about this drink or Tiki culture, check out beachbumberry.com. I personally love a good Tiki drink and a good Tiki bar, what’s your favorite?

Next weeks book is Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir) by Jenny Lawson. It’s hilarious and not scary at all, I promise. I you want to make your own Zombie scroll down!
Zombie recipe
Zombie
0.75 oz. lime juice
0.05 oz. Falernum
1.50 oz. Gold Puerto Rican Rum
1.50 oz. Dark Jamaican Rum
1.00 oz. 151 Demerara Rum
1 tsp. Grenadine
6 drops Pernod
1 dash Angostura Bitters
0.50 oz. Don's Mix

Combine in a blender with 6 oz. of ice and blend for approx. 5 seconds. Pour into a tiki glass and garnish with an umbrella.

Cheers!
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