grab your plaid blazers, light a candle, and cue the rainymood.com soundtrack - we’re diving headfirst into the moody, mesmerising world of Babel by R. F. Kuang. in this episode, we explore the rich layers of dark academia (think crumpled parchment and candle-lit libraries) while unpacking the novel’s powerful themes of colonialism, racism, language and resistance. we’ll also talk about found friendship, complain endlessly about the reviews and hot takes we read, and try to articulate why this book left us feeling like we'd lived through something colossal.

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we’ve been reading and recording talk lit, get hit podcast since November 2022 and we’ve hit the milestone of releasing 50 episodes! we’re shocked and delighted to have so many hours of podcast episode released for you (and let’s face it, us) to listen to and enjoy. we’ve picked out some of our favourite bits from the 50 episodes gone by - things that made us laugh, discussions of accents, our favourite accents, some mistakes, some terrible steamy scenes, all our biggest crash-outs and finally, a supercut of all the many, many times we mention twilight. Thank you to anyone who has ever listened to an episode of our show! We are forever surprised, overjoyed and eternally grateful.

these clips are taken from the following episodes. beware of spoilers for these books within:

• The Love Hypothesis - Ali Hazlelwood
• Bride - Ali Hazelwood
• Icebreaker - Hannah Grace
• Wildfire - Hannah Grace
• Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros
• Fifty Shades of Grey - E. L. James
• Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer
• A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder - Holly Jackson
• The Hating Game - Sally Thorne
• The Spanish Love Deception - Elena Aramas
• Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
• If We Were Villains - M. L. Rio
• The Housemaid - Freida McFadden
• Sunrise on the Reaping - Suzanne Collins
• Romantic Comedy - Curtis Sittenfeld
• Red, White and Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston

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this episode, we wade into the emotionally unstable, couture-drenched world of Magnolia Parks by Jessa Hastings… and, well, we have some thoughts.

if you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to witness a slow-motion relationship implosion between two wildly codependent people—while surrounded by designer fashion, public spats that feel like a highschool Facebook fight, and enough black vans to stink out the UK, you’re in the right place.

we also ask the important questions, like: is anyone in this book okay? and how many times can one person sabotage their own life before we take their Gucci privileges away?

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if you can understand what we're saying through the tears, then in this episode you will find a heartfelt and nostaliga-tinged chat about Suzanne Collins's latest release, Sunrise on the Reaping. we talk all about Panem's 50th Hunger Games (the second Quarter Quell!), things that made us cry, Haymitch's role in the games, our favourite quotes, fan theories, easter eggs and some more things that made us cry. pop your headphones on and strap in for an emotional and very spoiler-filled episode of Sunrise on the Reaping.

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Athena Liu had everything Juniper Hayward wanted... and then she died. and so begins the story for Juniper 'June' Hayward, our completely despicable and unhinged (white) protagonist who can't. stop. lying.

in this month's episode, we dig into Yellowface by R. F. Kuang. we talk about books written about influencers in the age of influencers, the murky and confusing connections between fiction and reality, and what could make a book with such an unlikeable protagonist so compulsively readable. throughout the episode we touch on cultural appropriation and ask the question: who gets to tell what story?

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If you were alive in the 2000s you knew three things:

1. Renee Zellweger is a horrifically misguided casting choice for our British icon Bridget Jones
2. The character Bridget Jones is roughly the size of a house
3. Colin Firth and Hugh Grant are hot

After reading and discussing Bridget Jones’s Diary for a previous podcast episode, we decided it’s only fair that we dive into the 2000s film adaptation of Helen Fielding’s classic novel. From casting choices to the long standing (potentially fictional) feud between the two male leads, no stone is left unturned! What twists and spins can the glitz and glamour of Hollywood add to this already classic tale?

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this episode we are taking a dive into the diary that defined a generation! for our April book and the theme "haha that's so funny", we're talking about Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding. we spend some time cringing at our own adolescent diary entries and talk feminism, fad diets and try to decide if this novel is a depressing glimpse into the hive mind of the 90s or an optimistic, progressively feminist masterpiece.

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welcome to our latest talk lit, get hit bonus chapter! in this episode we attempt to disentangle our thoughts and feelings on the supposed rise of anti-intellectualism in the literary world. we discuss the modern manifestations of this ancient concept - trope titles, simplistic narratives, audiobooks vs physical books, social media echo chamber driven publishing and a resistance to critical thinking. we discuss the ever-present question - can reading ever, truly be “not political” and what can we do to change our reading and consumption habits?

mentioned in this episode:

@andrearaereads - https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSrRd8A6P/
@bookishwithb - https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSrRenYcr/
@flexmami - https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSrRecUm3/
Australia Reads Survey
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