talk lit, get hit

if you know one thing about talk lit, get hit podcast it’s that we HATED the love hypothesis by ali hazelwood when we first read it on our show in 2023. flash forward a few years and we believe we’ve changed and grown, but how much really? this episode we’re putting that growth to the test and discussing the amazon original adaptation sharing lili reinhart and tom bateman. will an attractive cast...

what do you get if you cross all the worst parts of breaking dawn with deeply uncharismatic protagonists, an unconventional love “triangle” and a penchant for worms? at the risk of spoiling the episode before we’ve even began, the answer could just be “the host, by stephenie meyer”. this episode we’re chatting all about the doomed, alleged trilogy starring melanie stryder, wanda wanderer worm, and...

spring is the season of renewal, the season of growth and the season of listing fourteen books you would like to read in the remaining fourteen weeks of the year. this episode, we are reflecting not the books we've read so far in 2026 (broken up into Q1, Q2 & Q3 like the true business gyals we are). we're chatting about the highlights and lowlights of each month, any notable dnf&apos...

our book this month is sky daddy by kate folk. as far as weird girl literature goes, you think it wouldn’t get too much weirder than being sexually attracted to a plane - but as we so often say on the show, we don’t yuck someone else’s yum, and so this episode, we are determined to get to the bottom of things. sky daddy centres around linda, a woman who is obsessed with planes (in the most unhinge...

each month, we read a book chosen by our lovely listeners – often these books for complex and at times, barely discernible reasons make us want to rip our hair out or scream into the abyss, and we thought, what better way to try and take it up a notch than by reading a book chosen by the very same person who can see into our literary soul. Bridget will take us on a journey through Hungry for Her W...

one ice hockey romance to rule them all, one ice hockey romance to find them, one ice hockey romance to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. this episode we're reading a book by the mama of all smutty ice hockey romance authors - the deal by elle kennedy. this episode we chat all about women who hate women, men who hate women and how long it REALLY takes to watch one and a half seaso...

this episode we discuss the newest memoir by a woman who could well be the voice of our generation (or at least a voice of a generation) - famesick by Lena Dunham. from her meteoric rise to fame with the hit tv show girls, to the crippling chronic pain and mental health concerns that intersected with an externally perfect life yet highlighly cancellable life, lena dunham is compulsively honest in...

as written by the prophet John Green himself “you don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world... but you do have some say in who hurts you” and that’s why this month to cover the theme deeply millennial, we’re wading into the unabashed tearjerker and heartbreaking tragedy that is The Fault in our Stars, by John Green. synopsis music by Natan Molibog send us your voice messages here <...

this episode we once again morph into the literary agony aunts of your dreams to dish out sweeping advice with little to no authority. we discuss the perks of joining a library (see: ways to cure shopping addiction and support your community). we talk about the it-girl books of the year, Yesteryear by Clare Caro Burke and Strangers by Belle Burden as well as their film adaptations starring Anne Ha...

sing me a song of a podcast that is travelling back in time, to the year 1743 for a tale of passion, adventure, clan politics and trout fishing. this month, we’re reading the epic romance Outlander by Diana Gabaldon and talking all things Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall Beauchamp. this episode also features a special guest appearance from the ever-lovely Wren (aka @superb.wren on TikTok). Wren is...

it is a truth universally acknowledged that there is no such thing as too many Jane Austen adaptations. it seems truly impossible to ever fully know the scope of how many literary adaptations of Pride and Prejudice have been made. there are the ever-predictable steamy retellings that ask the ever-present question “but what if they f*cked???”, retellings exploring the key themes but set in differen...

before monsters learned their names, before heroes thought themselves immortal, there was a voice learning to speak. it's time for herstory, not history as we turn to Circe by Madeline Miller - a retelling and reimaging of Circe, the witch of The Odyssey - a story that promises to be absorbing, luminous and spellbinding – a feminist novel, ripe for the #metoo generation. we talk all about Gre...

this episode we wanted to give back by sharing our book recommendations for all your specific tastes - the good, the bad and the incredibly niche and freaky. we put out a question box and scoured the internet high and low to find book recommendations that will suit even the most specific of moods. tastes explored: a book that feels like the first days of soft autumn sunlight kissing your face a bo...

this month we are reading a sapphic romance about love, power, hunger and toxic lesbian vampires. it’s a novel told across three timelines, spanning almost five centuries and multiple countries, all the while asking the eternal question, what does it mean to be free? this month we are reading bury our bones in the midnight soil by v. e. schwab. we are the literature podcast for recovering book sno...

each month, we read a book chosen by our lovely listeners – often these books for complex and at times, barely discernible reasons make us want to rip our hair out or scream into the abyss, and we thought, what better way to try and take it up a notch than by reading a book chosen by the very same person who can see into our literary soul. Laura will take us on a journey through The Charming Billi...

phonies, crooks and big bastards beware! this episode we’re discussing a book often cited as an all-time classic in coming-of-age literature - an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and a book held in the tote bags of ex boyfriends and would be assassins alike. this month, we’re exploring a seminal work of softboi fiction and spending time with one of histor...

this month on the show, we are belatedly but excitedly discussing the first cinematic adaptation of one of our most reliable author’s works - we’re talking about the Netflix adaptation of The People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry. we are no strangers to the Emily Henry universe on this show, with past episodes on beach read, happy place and funny story. we’ll discuss casting choices (preemptiv...

this month, we're taking on a TikTok favourite, new adult romance complete with steam, suspense and darker themes. heavy on the tropes and easy on the cover design, this month's pick alleges to include Grumpy/Sunshine, Forced Proximity, Enemies to Lovers, Brother's Best Friend, Morally Grey Heroes and of course, Billionaire Romance. this month, we're reading Twisted Love by Ana...

this episode, we are once again opening our inboxes and hearts to our favourite people in the world, our listeners. we asked for your 2026 goals and aspirations (bookish or otherwise), the things you wanted to leave behind in 2025 and and anything else you wanted to get off your chest. we discuss goals to finish lengthy TBRs, how to read more in 2026, getting and staying off our phones, sapphic fi...

this episode we are taking you on a journey to discover the self professed life changing tool that millions of people can’t stop talking about. it’s a book that promises to deliver the fastest way to take control of your life and stop trying to control other people and focus on what you can control; yourself. in case it wasn’t obvious, we’re reading The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins. we discuss t...

it’s time to say merry christmas, happy new year and wrap up the podcast year that was 2025! this means it’s also time for a few beverages, a little singing and an intense and critical analysis of the highs and lows of our podcast for the year gone by. we’ll discuss our favourite and least favourite episodes, rank our podcast books and circle back and check in on our 2025 goals and aspirations, in...

to wrap up another fantastic year of talk lit, get hit podcast, we wanted read the book that everyone was calling "the book of the year" and 'the favourites' by layne fargo fit the bill. one of many in a long line of ice-skating adjacent media that has shaped our personalities (think: icebreaker, ice princess and blades of glory) 'the favourites' is touted to be taut,...

what’s better than being forced into adventure and a quest to find the great perhaps by a manic, pixie, dream girl? BEING the manic pixie dream girl, of course (sort of)! this episode we’re reading the summer I turned pretty by jenny han in a bid to chase those long forgotten emotions of teenage whimsy and dating three guys in the span of a summer. we debate team conrad or team jeremiah, ask if we...

this episode we are putting it all on the line and delving into familiar, nostalgic territory. for our november episode, we’re exploring the theme “manic pixie dream girl” and reading one of the classic, ancient texts - looking for alaska by john green. in this episode we break down the manic pixie dream girl trope (from daisy buchanan to ramona flowers), plumb the depths of our adolescent tumblrs...

this episode we enjoyed a potent snapshot of hollywood circa 1994 and watching the film adaptation of interview with the vampire, directed by neil jordan and staring tom cruise, brad pitt and kirsten dunst. this rendition of anne rice’s classic novel offers of plenty of fodder for discussion, from brad pitt’s personal hygiene, to anne rice’s passion for film casting and the whs on candles and set...