Friday, September 05, 2014

Should you worry when your daughter becomes a gin connoisseur?

 http://online.wsj.com/articles/novelist-megan-abbott-on-langleys-no-8-gin-1409934811

10 comments:

Todd Mason said...

Not till the gin blossoms form. (Or a certain sinister currency comes into discussions of "gin games" around her...)

Gerard said...

It's a neat piece.

Anonymous said...

Yes.
It'll have a disastrous effect on her spelling. Get her to become a connoisseur instead.

Rick Robinson said...

It's probably just research for a book. I'm sure she doesn't imbibe it herself.

Anders E said...

I want her to go all aquavit and then write something about Scandinavia.

Sergio (Tipping My Fedora) said...

Important to keep your amateur status one would have thought ...

Anonymous said...

Nope. Not when it's Megan.

George said...

Megan is really branching out! As for me, I think gin tastes like furniture polish. Now rum...

Charles Gramlich said...

In this case, probably not.

Gerard said...

Serendipity says: The Great English Gin Bender.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2014/09/05/the_gin_craze_war_tyranny_class_and_the_dark_history_of_england_s_love_affair.html