Booktails Podcast

Pride Stories 1

Happy Pride month Book Besties! 🏳️‍🌈💖

We are starting off STRONG with the wonderful tale of a lesbian retirement community in the apocalyptic near-future. Resident Hannah is ill and has decided to end her life on her own terms and is celebrating with the party to end all parties! But will the long lost love of her life reply to the invitation before time runs out for good? 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

Join us for discussions on found family and love that lasts forever, or maybe just for your golden years, pool noodles, golf carts and A/C units. 🏊‍♀️

This book made us laugh and cry and we will be thinking about it for a long time to come so grab this week’s tropical cocktail, complete with umbrella straw and let’s do some aqua aerobics, baby! 🍹

Bookshop Pick 2

We are continuing our Bookshop Picks this week! We found ourselves with a couple of episodes to fill before our next theme so we decided to have some fun!🕶️

Rachel and Serena set off to their local bookshop and decided to choose each other a random book!📖

But it wasn’t quite that simple! They had to choose two prompts from a hat to dictate their choice and had only ten minutes to select a book for the other that matched the prompts! This sounds a lot easier than it actually was! 📚

So… for our second Bookshop Pick Rachel had to choose Serena a book with a person on the cover and a faraway setting cover and the result was Scorched Grace 🚬

This is a murder mystery with a twist- a detective nun! We will be delving into the sweltering New Orleans setting, Sister Holiday’s checkered past and what impact that has on the story, fires fires everywhere and THAT ending (mini spoiler: more fire).🔥 

Speaking of fire, we set our cocktail smoking this week! We love any excuse to take out our beloved Hauntingly Good Spirits cocktail book and you know we needed a smoky Sazerac take for this New Orleans arson story! ⚜️

Bookshop Pick 1

It’s a bit of a different one for us this week! We found ourselves with a couple of episodes to fill before our next theme so we decided to have some fun!🕶️

Rachel and Serena set off to their local bookshop and decided to choose each other a random book!📖

But it wasn’t quite that simple! They had to choose two prompts from a hat to dictate their choice and had only ten minutes to select a book for the other that matched the prompts! This sounds a lot easier than it actually was! 📚

So… for our first Bookshop Pick Serena had to choose Rachel a book with a cartoon romcom style cover and an author with Rachel’s initials and the result was Galentine’s Day! 💖

So join us to discuss what makes a good friend and whether any of the protagonists qualified for us, which sleepover we would choose (Bali, obv) and which of the characters we saw ourselves in (spoiler: they all have their flaws) 🙈

We are going old school with our cocktail this week, hoping it might just remind you of 18-30 holidays abroad with your best girlfriends as you cry on each others’ sunburnt shoulders! 🏖️

So grab your popcorn and pjs, it’s time for a sleepover with your book besties! 🍿💄

Recent Adaptations 4

Blessed be the fruit 🍈

This week we are returning to Gilead to meet Agnes and Daisy and see a whole new side of a certain aunt we thought we knew. 🤫

Expect discussions on the differences in style between the Testaments and the Handmaid’s Tale, insights into entirely new factions of Gilead society and beyond, changes between the book and the adaptation and how scarily the Testaments reflects how society could be heading… 🪾

So grab a Mayday cocktail and your headband, it’s time to become a new pearl girl recruit and join us…

Praise be. 🙏 

Recent Adaptations 3

This week we are blasting off to a whole new world of entertainment! We are donning our spacesuits and checking our astrophage levels because it’s time to save humanity with Ryland Grace and Project Hail Mary! 🚀

Expect discussions on the obsession with space spiders, whether Ryan Gosling is too hot, why we cried at alien friendship and whether it matters if the science makes sense. 🛸

Fist my bump, let’s go! 👾

Recent Adaptations 2.

Dearest gentle readers, 

We have some urgent information that we believe to be of the utmost interest to discerning members of the Ton’s reading contingent. 

You read it here first that the next in our Recent Adaptations series ‘An Offer from a Gentleman’; Bridgerton book 3 (season 4)! 🎭 is available now! 

Expect scintillating conversation on Benedict’s rakish ways, the adaptation’s wholly new Sophie and why we shall never tire of attractive men swimming in country lakes. 

If you want to accompany your listening pleasure with the society tipple of this season, look no further than The Lady in Silver cocktail, find the ingredients on our instagram or Patreon! 🍸

Trust us, this is one event you won’t want to miss! 

Love,

The Ladies Pissledown x 

New Adaptations 1. 📖🎬

Okay we give in. It’s time to join the locker room and google what the NHL is. That’s right, we are reading Heated Rivalry!🏒

This ice hockey romance has taken the world by storm so come with us to sip an Ilya & Shane inspired ‘Skating on Thin Ice’ cocktail ⛸️and delve into this spicy sports romance, including discussions on the real life professional hockey rivals who found love, how grateful we were that you don’t need to know anything about hockey to get involved in this story and, most importantly, those bums in the adaptation. They made quite the impression, IYKYK. 🍑😏

Books We Love to Hate 4

For the final book in this series of divisive books you asked and we answered! November 9 by Colleen Hoover is a romance with a classic premise: our protagonists vow to meet only on one day per year: April 17th. Nah, just joking, on November 9th obviously.

Grab an autumnal cocktail and join the conversation as we discuss the meta nature of the book, the lack of events on the other 364 days of the year, THAT twist and ask why oh why are these characters so young? 

Books We Love to Hate 3.

If your sexual awakening was the beast in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast then all we can say is clearly you were not alone! Beauty and the Beast has led to MANY romantasy Retellings and this Why Choose is no exception. We’re talking four (or five!) different flavours of Fae prince, small provincial town, endearing servants, eccentric outcast father and that all important curvy girl representation.

It’s a camp old time and honestly we are HERE for it! Whether this book is all your fantasies rolled into one or you couldn’t get past the first chapter, join us for a truly wild ride. Just don’t tell Walt what we’re all up to! 

Books We Love to Hate 2

It’s our 50th episode babyyy! 🎉🎉🎉

Whether you love it or hate it this book is a global phenomenon and we want hear your thoughts on the Housemaid! 🥜

Grab your pepper spray 🌶️an impractical white dress and come on up to the attic, it’s time to get deadly. It’s time for us to discuss creepy children, creepy mothers, creepy (but sexy) gardeners…🤷‍♀️

We will dive into all this and more… just not yet. 😉