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:

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

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  2. Gerard4:52 PM

    It's a neat piece.

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  3. Anonymous7:03 PM

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

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

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

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

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  7. Anonymous7:39 AM

    Nope. Not when it's Megan.

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

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  9. In this case, probably not.

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  10. Gerard2:00 PM

    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

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