Chick Lit 4 Life: A Bookish Podcast

Series 6 Episode 6: As you Were

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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:

  • Clee is quite taken with Elaine. Like it could be a problem
  • These characters being some of the most compelling we've seen in FOREVER
  • The toll that patriarchal abuse takes on a person - often turning them into someone doling out their own share of pain to others
  • The indignity of illness
  • Is taking a decision out of someone's hands or keeping secrets to protect someone a good or bad thing?
  • And a healthy aside about the atrocity that was the Irish Mother & Baby Home industry (Katie insisted we term it as such)

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

    • The 2011 performance poetry crew, of which LC was briefly part
    • Saoirse doesn't need your thoughts and prayers. No seriously. She'll scratch your eyes right out man
    • Chloe's boobs are unexpectedly climate conscious
    • Chloe needing to go to Vegas to see BTS - and the fact the girls all went to see the PTS in Seoul show a week or 2 ago
    • Cliodhna, Saoirse and Chloe can still remember all of the stuff a bishop carries around with him. They insist they are not religious. Katie is still not talking to them. 

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

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      Chick Lit 4 Life: A Bookish PodcastBy LC Lewis