Thirsty Thursday and Hungry Hearts
Welcome to Thirsty Thursday and Hungry Hearts, an original weekly meme hosted here at (un)Conventional Bookworms. So many of the books we read have food or drinks in them, some we’d love to try, and others we’d never ever want to taste… and I thought it could be interesting and fun to share some food and / or drink quotes… If you want to participate, you can grab our logo if you’d like, or you can make your own, but please link back to us in your own post.
The idea of Thirsty Thursday and Hungry Hearts is to share a quote with food or drinks that showed up in a recent read, as well as if it’s something you think you’d like or not. Please share the title of the book it happened in, as well as the character who ate or drank the special little something you discovered between the pages of a good read. Please link up beneath, and visit other bloggers who are participating in Thirsty Thursday and Hungry Hearts as well.
My quote for this week comes from the lastest release from JA Huss & Johnathan McClain, The Square. I’m not a straight liquor kind of gal but I felt bourbon was appropriate for Alec, Christine, and Danny considering what they’d been through. And no, I’m not gonna tell you what they’d just been through. 😉
He chooses a bourbon, something with a green label I don’t recognize, gets three glasses, and pours us all drinks.
I’m watching him do this. As is Alec. And he’s just about to start handing them out when he looks at us, holds up a finger, then fishes two ice cubes out of a bucket and plops them into one glass.
Mine.
Smile number three. Because he remembers.
“I don’t want one,” Alec says, putting up a hand as Danny approaches.
“It’s not optional.” He says it with a snide, sideways smile. “You need it. So drink it.”
I don’t bother protesting, even though I don’t want one either. I guess he thinks we need this to soften up, and I’m not up to making my own decisions at the moment, so I accept the glass and begin to sip.
It goes down smooth, the burn coming whole seconds later once the drink is in my gut.
Alec downs his whole glass in one gulp. Which has Danny raising his eyebrows behind the bar. But he just shrugs and drains his as well.
“Let’s have another,” Danny says, once again pouring. He takes the bottle and his new drink over to the coffee table in the middle of the room, and then refills Alec’s glass.
Alec considers objecting again, but he’s too weary. So he just downs it as well.
“Sit,” Danny says to both of us. “We’re gonna figure this shit out.”
Thanks for stopping by today, I look forward to reading your Thirsty Thursday and Hungry Hearts quote. Have a terrific Thursday and don’t forget to link up.
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Brandee is a mom of 3 and a soon-to-be empty nester. She is also an avid reader, a genre omnivore, and a compulsive one-clicker - but she's in recovery. Besides being a reader, she's also a writer and hopes to divide the vast quantities of spare time she'll soon have between reading and finally publishing her first book.
I am not a bourbon kind of girl but I see the appeal.
I love culinary fiction, and I can think of several books that have some amazing foodie quotes! Looking forward to reading more of them through this post!
You should share with us, Davida! I love food and drinks in stories – it just makes them more realistic to me. We all have to eat, right? 🙂
Okay… here’s one:
“I spent another sleepless night in my apartment and in the early hours of the morning I snuck once more into my little kitchen, to prepare a huge torta di ricotta. I needed a cheesecake: it was the only thing that could give me the peace of mind I craved.
“Had I been too hasty in offering to give l’Inglese lessons? I asked myself, as I ground green almonds with my pestle. The power of my wrist quickly turned the almonds to powder. If only I could grind my worries away as easily.
“I beat the ricotta, egg yolks, honey, sugar, lemon juice, and rind into the almonds. I beat and beat and beat the mixture until a sweat formed on my brow and my body began to glow with warmth. Even then I did not stop beating. I welcomed the exhaustion that began to creep up on me: I could feel the healing power of my cooking.
“Really I knew nothing about l’Inglese. Nothing at all. Except that everything about him spelled danger to an inexperienced woman like me. I was afraid of him, yet could not bear the thought of not seeing him again. I was always thinking of him, imagining our next meeting: amusing myself with every possible scenario.
“I whisked the egg whites into peaks in a matter of seconds. I reasoned that I had been right to speak out to him when I did. I knew how I would have hated myself if I had let the moment slip by. I knew how wretched and foolish I would have felt at my impotence, and yet this turbulence inside me was almost as bad. Acrobatic butterflies fluttered in my stomach, however much I tried to feed them into submission.
“When the torta had baked to a golden, angel-scented crust, and after waiting impatiently for it to cool, I helped myself to a large slice with a thick dollop of cream. Ooh, it was good. I mopped up every crumb from the plate with my finger. Then I switched out the lights and climbed back into bed. I resigned myself to the thought that what was done could not be undone and drifted into a lemon-flavored sleep.” ― Lily Prior, La Cucina
Oh yeah! that’s what I’m talking about. Those are awesome, Davida 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
That book – La Cucina – is just FILLED with that kind of stuff. Talk about your Culinary fiction! Joanne Harris (as in Chocolat) also has a few books that have some stuff like that as well. The book I’m reading now – The Chef’s Secret by Crystal King, and her previous novel Feast of Sorrow also has mentions of food, but nothing beats La Cucina!
Oh nice! Our quotes are usually from romance books – not culinary fiction… but we love to share food or drink quotes anyway 🙂
Well, Prior mostly writes (wrote) romance novels, but this one was culinary as well, and SO luscious! I read three of her books, but the last one pissed me off because I really don’t believe in animals being narrators of stories that have humans.
That’s good to know! Thanks for the rec!!
love the drinks! green label ? like a absinthe?
I wouldn’t turn one down right now. lol
I don’t think I’ve ever had bourbon, but these characters sound like they needed it lol.