So LC is getting her room painted so we're in a weird new studio that's all echoey and loud. We can't figure out if we're cool with it or not (feat Chloe whisper-shouting). But that didn't stop us from getting into Lauren Kung Jessen's astrology flavoured rom-com Lunar Love!

It's all in the latest Chick Lit 4 Life!

We are back! Even a weird & confusingly specific increase in LC's normal job work couldn't keep us from finally getting our episode on Kate Solly's Tuesday Evenings at the Copeton Crochet Collective together!

What do the girls get into? Well, we've got:

- Crochet and it's power to bring people together - no seriously we've seen it - LC's Mam yarnbombs with her knitting club. It's serious shit

Tangents? You got it - the girls also got into:

- How K-Pop powerhouse Stray Kids are Austraian and so is Kate. We don't need more than that for a link you guys. Also Katie is cheating on BTS's Yoongi with SKZ Changbin. She's got a thing for Korean rappers…

It's all here in the latest Chicklit4Life!!

You guys - it's the last show of 2022! We were able to get one last book into the year - Kiley Dunbar's SPARKLING "Christmas at the Borrow A Bookshop"!

Eagle-eyed listeners will know we've covered this book's predecessor in Series 6, and this second installment in the series is JUST as gorgeous!

Topics covered include (but are not limited to):

Plus, it wouldn't have been an episode without some tangents right? We found ourselves talking, for some reason, about:

It's all here in this week's Chick Lit 4 Life!

You guys, do you have any idea - any idea - how romantic and compelling Malinda Lo's "Last Night At The Telegraph Club" is?

I mean, of course there are tangents - it wouldn't be CL4L without them!

I mean, it does NOT get better than that you guys!

*If you want to read more about the effect of McCarthyism on the Asian American community we loved this article that PBS published as part of their “Asian American and Pacific Islander Experience” feature collection: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/mccarthy-numbed-with-fear-chinese-americans/

Oh people, this episode of CL4L was supposed to be all sunshine and rainbows, discussing Mhairi McFarlane's sparkling "Mad About You", but somehow it ended up with Katie getting super upset about something her bloke Dave said, but it all getting twisted and her thinking Chloe and the girls think she's dumb or something for being with him in the first place? It was super weird, but luckily, that was only one small, weird-ass part of the show 

We did get to talk about lovely book related things, including but not limited to:

And we even had time for some non-Dave related sadness tangents! We got into:

It's all here in this month's Chick Lit 4 Life!!

Oh gorgeous humans - the girls are back and they are COVID free! (Note: there is still a slight sinus infection within the group but that's not what we're here to talk about is it?!) 

What we are we're here to talk at length about Bonnie Garmus's luminous "Lessons in Chemistry" and man alive we have much to say

Points of note include:

Tangents you ask? Oh they were plentiful. Including, but not limited to:

Lessons in Chemistry is available at all reputable booksellers - YOU NEED IT IN YOUR LIFE

Beautiful people, MAGNIFICENT people! We are back and we are ready to talk about the last book in our series on People What We Love Loads - Elaine Feeney's "As You Were"!

Points of note include:

Tangents you ask? Oh they were plentiful. Including, but not limited to:

As You Were is available at all reputable booksellers - go get yourselves a copy!

Oh holy crap you guys. Today, we are not here to talk about just any book. We are here to talk about the new novel from the QUEEN of warm, affecting, hilarious fiction herself, MS MARIAN KEYES (thunderous applause)

Not only are we talking a new Marian Keyes novel, we are also talking a return to our beloved Walsh family, and arguably our favourite Walsh - Rachel! When we last saw Rachel in The Mystery of Mercy Close she was happily married to sexy, tight-pantsed Luke and living in New York as a serene addiction therapist. But now she's back in Ireland and has had many changes in her life. What's going on and WHY ARE WE SO TRAUMATIZED BY THE FAMILY TREE GRAPHIC AT THE BEGINNING

Points of note include:

Tangents you ask? Oh they were plentiful. Including, but not limited to:

Again, Rachel is out on 17-Feb, pre-order your copy now. NOW DAMNIT!

Romance? Suffragettes? WWI? Mustard Gas? BTS's Kim Seokjin and the magic of his "Super Tuna" (not a euphemism) 

I mean, if that's what we're talking in this month's episode on Susan Lanigan's "White Feathers" we better all strap in folks.

To give the briefest of overviews, we've got:

Tangents? Well I mean, obviously:

That and the birth of the hashtag "WWI Germans are people too"

It's all here in this month's Chick Lit 4 Life!

We did it!! We finally got our episode on Deirdre Sullivan's Perfectly Preventable Deaths and Precious Catastophe recorded and posted!

I mean, the girls have much to share, with at least 60% of said sharing being on how much we LOVE Deirdre, seriously she is the actual best, we cannot.

But if we were to try to quantify what it is we have to say in this episode, we've got:

- Which do we like better – the humour or the lyricism? The question that nearly tears the friend group apart (not really)

- Mamó being an actual beast and then the wise woman archetype in general

- Predatory behaviour and how it’s permitted to just exist because we don’t really have the toolkit to combat it

- Ownership of human souls being a focus, and the main threat in both books

- The strength of sisterhood being the main power that fights that threat

- And of course, the most important erotic chimney metaphor of recent times

Tangents? I don't know if we did go on any tangents... (JK OF COURSE WE DID):

- Chloe’s been 공부해ing her Korean

- Clee’s trapezius muscle is still terrifying

- Saoirse and Sarah geek out considerably about Dwayne The Rock Johnson and lament the loss of Glenn Greenwald to sad, sad media criticism

- Astroworld and whether the Kardashians are agents of evil or women being real about the time, money and medical expertise involved in maintaining that body type

- How Chloe says the word “elegant”

- LC’s sister’s sexy, sexy BTS fanfic. Again.

- Irish death notices on the radio (no it’s NOT weird)

- Chloe’s Granny Nolan is beyond terrifying

- You can make Katie understand almost anything by comparing it to Series 7 of The Simpsons

- Of course following that we go on quite the tangent about the words “embiggen” and “cromulent”

Like...that's enough isn't it?