Kiddush Book Club

Yonit and Jessica drink hard ciders in isolation. L'Chaim! We are joined by book club friends Megan and Aviva to chat about distraction books, to-be-read piles, and how to choose your next read when you're stuck at home with nowhere to go. If you'd like to join us for more group zoom chats, please email [email protected]. 

...and we're feeling fine, BH. Jessica & Yonit celebrate the end-times with a mudslide. L'Chaim! Follow the mudslide as it meanders from apocalyptic fiction to the post-apocalyptic nature of Love is Blind, and the state of Trader Joe's empty shelves.

Jessica and Yonit drink I Saw The Wine and talk speculative books. L'Chaim! As expected, the wine cocktails take us down winding pathways, but it all comes together in the end. 

Jessica & Yonit talk shidduchim and married love, and this means drinking. Loads of drinking. We made a drink called The Shadchan, in which we randomly put things together to see if they'd work, and they did! Lime vodka, strawberry sugar syrup, and dry white wine. A shidduch! We talk with Lynne Silver, whose story about an empty-nesting married couple made us smile in the Eight Kisses anthology, and Penina Shtauber, whose collection of Shidduch Stories was so real we needed an extra l'chaim. Please leave us voice messages on Anchor of your craziest date stories.

Jessica and Yonit pre-funk/pre-game cocktails and hard apple ciders, and shmooze with prolific local YA author and It's A Whole Spiel contributor Rachel Lynn Solomon about her work, Jewish rep in books, and her upcoming adult debut! Come for the witty conversation, stay for the insider tips for querying writers/aspiring authors. L'Chaim! 

Jessica and Yonit have all the feelings, nothing more than feelings. In fact, Yonit has organized them in a chart. A feelings chart. About all the books that give us the feels. Drink jello shots and the Official Jessica (OJ, vodka, grenadine), and make it a double. L'Chaim!

Jessica and Yonit drink the very strong Just Peachy Peach Ginny and tell you what to buy for Chanukah, from the Newish Jewish Encyclopedia to Chicken Soup Chicken Soup. L'Chaim! Also interviews with Chelm for the Holidays author Valerie Frankel and Hong Kong PJ Library queen Erica Lyons! 

Yonit and Jessica drink an unnamed shot of something blue and work up an appetite talking about food in literature and lots and lots of cookbooks. Yum. Okay, we're hungry. Get hungry with us. Also a preview of upcoming episodes. L'Chaim!

Yonit and Jessica drink alcohol Yonit didn't have to be carded for because it's as young and sweet as she is. Smirnoff strawberry lemonade! Then a strong defense of YA and an attempt to figure out what YA actually is. To win a Kiddush Book Club bookmark, go to our instagram. L'Chaim! https://www.instagram.com/kiddushbookclub/

Yonit and Jessica drink daemon mead (hard apple cider + mango syrup) and talk all things Discovery of Witches, from vampire obsession to historical accuracy, and other books that sit next to it on the bookshelf. L'Chaim!