You're listening to The Girl Next Door Podcast. I'm Erica. And I'm Kelsey. We're two former

next door neighbors and good friends who love a good chat and a good cocktail. We're inviting

you to come on in, have a drink, and stay a while. Hey, friend. Hey friend. This is our fall book club

episode. So we'll be spending the whole show discussing the novel The Night Circus by Aaron Morgan Stern.

If you're listening, you're in the book club.

Hey, hey.

Hello, friends.

And I'm really excited about this one because it's one of my favorite books.

Awesome.

But first, a cocktail.

I have what I'm going to call a cocktail du rev.

Ooh.

Do you like that?

I like how you know how to say that because I was messing that up in my head a lot too.

There's a lot of like Vs and R's and S's in that word.

And I'm not quite sure how to say it.

And what I have found from

my previous years of studying French, basically the whole point is to pronounce as few

syllables and letters as possible. Agreed. There's a lot of silent letters in French.

Exactly. Okay. Okay. So in honor of the night circus, I kind of have a dark cocktail. It's like kind of a very deep, almost gannet kind of red.

Yeah. This is gin. And then I used some iconic mixer spiced honey, which is like a honey with spices and a little bit of pepper heat.

And then also maraschino cherry juice, but these are not the bright red maraschino high

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