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Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

Bitches & Bourbon

Release Date: 12/13/2022

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Bitches & Bourbon

Originally recorded: 20230728 Length: 00:41:07 Should we have recorded two shows in one night? Probably not. But Ape and Reba double-booked themselves and we are nothing if not professionals. Did you keep a straight face on that last part? Neither did I when I typed it. At any rate, here’s your foray into Japanese whisky and shenanigans. You’re Welcome. Japanese Whisky with Chuck Johnson Purchase details: Location: Gift Date: ??? Cost: $$ Type: Japanese Whisky Links for this episode 01:30 Ape is really trying to herd the cats…it doesn’t really work…not even with a paintball buzzer...

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Bitches & Bourbon

Originally recorded: 20230903 Length: 55:43 We thought we hadn’t had this one before. A discovery of an empty bottle suggests we were wrong. So, in this episode, Ape and Reba give Balcones its due – and discover some pretty cool stuff about what it means to be “Texas Whisky.” Balcones Texas Pot Still Straight Bourbon Whisky Type: Texas Pot Still Straight Bourbon Whisky Distillery: Balcones Distillery Bottled in: Waco, TX Proof: 46% / 92 proof Age: 2 years Links for this episode   01:00 Hurricane report, and moving the kids along 03:45 Introducing Balcones and shenanigans 15:30...

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Bitches & Bourbon

Originally recorded: 20231220 Length: 02:12:48 Bonus Episode: The Drunk Guys and Cormac McCarthy The Drunk Guys Book Club Podcast invited the Bitches over to join their discussion of Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses. Not only did an amazing discussion happen, but the guys were nice enough to handle all the editing duties. So, Ape decided to take the gift and send it out to you just the way they sent it to her – with a quick hello added in so she could feel somewhat useful. So, I suppose you can call this a bonus episode. I love that y’all hang out here, but you should really go...

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Originally recorded: 20230809 Length: 01:01:01 In a long overdue episode, Ape and Reba had the privilege of discussing Two Bitch Bourbon with founder and fellow dog lover Lauren Luby. We recorded this episode back in August, and Ape takes full responsibility for the delay in getting it out. However, we are pretty sure this brilliant conversation with Lauren is well worth the wait! Two Bitch Bourbon Purchase details:        Location: Two Bitch Bourbon website Date: 7/24/2023 Cost: $84.99 / $59.99 Type: -       Two Bitch Bourbon...

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Originally recorded: 20231227 Length: 00:43:53 B&B Year Two Celebration - Happy New Year, Y'all We were supposed to do one thing but ended up doing another thing. We just poured wine on it, and it worked out. Here’s to celebrating the Bitches year two. Happy New Year, y’all! Links for this episode (an invite from Ape) by Sarah Knight   01:00 So, this is a bit unexpected, but Happy New Year anyway! 02:00 Naked Wines get Ape love 04:00 Reba is a self-proclaimed “Basic Bitch” 05:00 Another round of “like what you like” 12:10 Clicking through the list of things we need...

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Bitches & Bourbon

Originally recorded: 20230728 Length: 01:05:43 While Ape LOVES all her guests, this one has her really excited. We tried to keep it under and hour, but honestly, who couldn’t talk whiskey with Redwood Empire’s head distiller, Lauren Patz, all day? Redwood Empire Purchase details:          Pipe Dream Lost Monarch Emerald Giant Type Bourbon Whiskey Blend Rye Location Jeff’s Beverage Jeff’s Beverage Jeff’s Beverage Date 4/29/23 4/29/23 4/29/23 Cost $37.99 $37.99 $37.99 Distillery In...

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Originally recorded: 20230725 Length: 00:45:33 Y’all. I don’t even know what to say…if you know, you know. Anyway, the best way to keep up with my completely erratic schedule, just subscribe to the show via your favorite podcast provider. So, here you go, the 5th Infinity Bottle episode with some podcast recaps. Infinity Bottle #5 and a B&B Recap Links for this episode 0:56 When is the appropriate time to say “Good morning” 2:00 It’s our 47th episode and the end of summer (yes, I know it didn’t get released until November. Whatever. 4:00 The Crown and how Ape got to the...

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Originally recorded: 20230712 Length: 39:47 Yes, yes that is the “Eye of the Tiger” playing in the opening. Did we change our theme music? No. But we did have a huge technical malfunction that caused Ape to cuss more than even she would publish on air. It took the most iconic franchise of all time (I said what I said, fight me) to get my mind right…but, it worked. We give you “Take 2.” P.S. Yes. I am aware I missed the opportunity to do the whole “One Bourbon, one Scotch, one Beer” thing. I wish I could tell you that it was on purpose because that would be legitimate; it’s...

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Bitches & Bourbon

Originally recorded: 20230709 Length: 32:33 As we do from time to time, Ape and Reba venture into a drink that will not go into the Bitches & Bourbon Infinity bottle. Today, it’s vodka, IslandJon vodka, to be exact. This episode had a bunch of surprises including a surprise guest. IslandJon Vodka  Purchase details:        Location: Jeff’s Beverage Date: 10/22/2022 Cost: $19.99 Type: Vodka Distillery: IslandJon Distillery Bottled in: New Port Richey, FL Proof: (% ABV) 40 (Proof) 80 Links for this episode   01:15 Silva and Kobi are back with...

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Originally recorded: 20230707 Length: 26:11 As the Bitches are sometimes wont to do, this conversation goes all over the place for a really long time. But, in true host fashion, Ape has cut it up, cleaned it out, and condensed a raucous evening into 26 minutes of moderately useful and entertaining-to-us content. Penelope Part II  Purchase details:        Location: Jeff’s Beverage Date: 5/01/2023 Cost: Architect - $60          Rose Cask -...

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Season 3, Episode 29

Originally recorded: 08/21/2022

Length: 00:32:01

There are spoilers! The Bitches welcome Kobi, Silva, and Clyde to discuss BBB August 2022 pick Seven Days in June by Tia Williams. Probably the most on topic we have ever stayed…be proud, but I wouldn’t suggest getting spoiled.  

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Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

01:30 And we are live with guests of Books with Bitches & Bourbon – Kobi, Silva, and Clyde

02:30 Wine is paring well with this book

04:00 Seven Days in June by Tia Williams.

26:00 How to join BBB – And how Ape got banned on TikTok - again

Seven Days in June

Author: Tia Williams

Genre: Fiction

Published: 2021

Pages: 336

Selected: Silva

Month: August 2022

BBB Stars: 4.0

Description (from Goodreads)

Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York.

When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their past buried traumas, but the eyebrows of New York's Black literati. What no one knows is that twenty years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. They may be pretending that everything is fine now, but they can't deny their chemistry - or the fact that they've been secretly writing to each other in their books ever since.

Over the next seven days in the middle of a steamy Brooklyn summer, Eva and Shane reconnect, but Eva's not sure how she can trust the man who broke her heart, and she needs to get him out of New York so that her life can return to normal. But before Shane disappears again, there are a few questions she needs answered...

With its keen observations of Black life and the condition of modern motherhood, as well as the consequences of motherless-ness, Seven Days in June is by turns humorous, warm and deeply sensual.

Books with Bitches and Bourbon Review

            We enjoyed this one overall. The biggest disagreement centered on the beginning chapters; the crowd split over whether or not the start was slow or exciting. Regardless of which side we fell on, everyone agreed that we would recommend it and enjoyed reading it.