In this week’s episode, Kayla and Taylor wrap up 2025 with their favorite pod (and non-pod) reads, plus other favorites from movies, TV, music, and more!

This week’s drink: French 75 via Friday Night Cocktails

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 oz gin
• ½ oz lemon juice, freshly squeezed
• ½ oz simply syrup
• 3 oz Champagne
• Lemon twist, for garnish

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. In a cocktail shaker, add the gin, lemon juice, and simple syrup. Add ice and shake until chilled.
2. Strain into a Champagne flute and top with Champagne. Garnish with a lemon twist

Current/recommended reads, links, etc.:

When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion by Julie Satow

Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age by Vauhini Varta

Eat Up!: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want by Ruby Tandoh

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Tilt by Emma Pattee

Trust by Hernan Diaz

O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix

Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros

Good Things by Samin Nosrat (and her podcast Home Cooking)

The Art of Gluten-Free Bread by Aran Goyoaga

Lugma: Abundant Dishes and Stories from My Middle East by Noor Murad

Great Short Books: A Year of Reading—Briefly by Kenneth C. Davis

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