talk lit, get hit

talk lit, get hit

hello and welcome to talk lit, get hit. the book podcast for recovering book snobs where we read viral books the internet won’t shut up about and rate them lit or shit. we’re your hosts bridget and laura, lovers of sad girl fiction and tragic endings - fearers of smut, urban fantasy and the “who did this to you?” trope. join us as we pick apart all the books the internet loves and embark on a journey to figure out why. 

  1. 5d ago

    back for round two with our old nemesis - bonus chapter: the love hypothesis movie

    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 and a studio makeover be enough to save us or will we meet the same pumpkin-spiced, galaxy-legging riddled misfortune as before? send us your voice messages here 3 choose our next podcast read by going here and voting in the first week of each month! make sure you subscribe to hear our groundbreaking thoughts as soon as they are unleashed. if you want to be on the same page as us, follow us at talklit.gethit on Instagram and TikTok. theme music born from the creative genius of Big Boi B. join talk lit, get hit podcast for deep dives into the hottest BookTok recommendations, trending contemporary fiction, and literary favourites! each episode features book discussions, spoiler-filled chats, and thoughtful literary analysis of novels everyone is talking about - from viral romance and fantasy to modern classics. whether you’re looking for BookTok book reviews, author interviews, or a virtual book club experience, out podcast is your go-to space for readers who love stories and want to explore them in depth. talk lit, get hit are reading and recording on Giabal, Jagera, Jarowair & Turrbal lands. we acknowledge the cultural diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and pay respect to Elders past, present and future. always was, always will be.

  2. Oct 12

    could this be worse than twilight? - the host by stephenie meyer

    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 jaxon, braxton, meemaw (or whatever). will this book fill the twilight shaped hole in our chests or are we doomed to have arrhythmias to the beat of decode forever??? music by geoff harvey send us your voice messages here 3 choose our next podcast read by going here and voting in the first week of each month! make sure you subscribe to hear our groundbreaking thoughts as soon as they are unleashed. if you want to be on the same page as us, follow us at talklit.gethit on Instagram and TikTok. theme music born from the creative genius of Big Boi B. join talk lit, get hit podcast for deep dives into the hottest BookTok recommendations, trending contemporary fiction, and literary favourites! each episode features book discussions, spoiler-filled chats, and thoughtful literary analysis of novels everyone is talking about - from viral romance and fantasy to modern classics. whether you’re looking for BookTok book reviews, author interviews, or a virtual book club experience, out podcast is your go-to space for readers who love stories and want to explore them in depth. talk lit, get hit are reading and recording on Giabal, Jagera, Jarowair & Turrbal lands. we acknowledge the cultural diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and pay respect to Elders past, present and future. always was, always will be.

  3. Sep 21

    our reading year so far (and our hopes and dreams for the rest!) - bonus chapter

    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's and creating aspirational lists of the books we'd like to finish in the remaining fourteen weeks of the year. let us know in the comments if you have faith or if you think we're truly delusional. send us your voice messages here 3 choose our next podcast read by going here and voting in the first week of each month! make sure you subscribe to hear our groundbreaking thoughts as soon as they are unleashed. if you want to be on the same page as us, follow us at talklit.gethit on Instagram and TikTok. theme music born from the creative genius of Big Boi B. join talk lit, get hit podcast for deep dives into the hottest BookTok recommendations, trending contemporary fiction, and literary favourites! each episode features book discussions, spoiler-filled chats, and thoughtful literary analysis of novels everyone is talking about - from viral romance and fantasy to modern classics. whether you’re looking for BookTok book reviews, author interviews, or a virtual book club experience, out podcast is your go-to space for readers who love stories and want to explore them in depth. talk lit, get hit are reading and recording on Giabal, Jagera, Jarowair & Turrbal lands. we acknowledge the cultural diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and pay respect to Elders past, present and future. always was, always will be.

  4. Sep 7

    is love in the air for our first weird girl lit fic read? - sky daddy by kate folk

    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 unhinged way) and believes it's her destiny to be united with one forever in a fiery crash. alongside it all, this is a book that claims to explore desire, fate, and the longing to be accepted for who we truly are. this month on the podcast we discuss the elusive genre of weird girl literary fiction, our surprisingly relatable protagonist linda, our love of freaky-freaks and have the loveliest chat to resident weird girl lit expert, Clarissa aka @weirdgirlliterature on instagram. if you want to find out what kind of plane you are please do the quiz here (and tell us your results!!!) send us your voice messages here 3 choose our next podcast read by going here and voting in the first week of each month! make sure you subscribe to hear our groundbreaking thoughts as soon as they are unleashed. if you want to be on the same page as us, follow us at talklit.gethit on Instagram and TikTok. theme music born from the creative genius of Big Boi B. join talk lit, get hit podcast for deep dives into the hottest BookTok recommendations, trending contemporary fiction, and literary favourites! each episode features book discussions, spoiler-filled chats, and thoughtful literary analysis of novels everyone is talking about - from viral romance and fantasy to modern classics. whether you’re looking for BookTok book reviews, author interviews, or a virtual book club experience, out podcast is your go-to space for readers who love stories and want to explore them in depth. talk lit, get hit are reading and recording on Giabal, Jagera, Jarowair & Turrbal lands. we acknowledge the cultural diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and pay respect to Elders past, present and future. always was, always will be.

  5. Aug 24

    four wolves, one mate, zero chill - bridget reads a laura book

    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 Wolves by Tara West, a paranormal, shapeshifter, urban fantasy, smutty, why-choose, omega verse romance. send us your voice messages here 3 choose our next podcast read by going here and voting in the first week of each month! make sure you subscribe to hear our groundbreaking thoughts as soon as they are unleashed. if you want to be on the same page as us, follow us at talklit.gethit on Instagram and TikTok. theme music born from the creative genius of Big Boi B. join talk lit, get hit podcast for deep dives into the hottest BookTok recommendations, trending contemporary fiction, and literary favourites! each episode features book discussions, spoiler-filled chats, and thoughtful literary analysis of novels everyone is talking about - from viral romance and fantasy to modern classics. whether you’re looking for BookTok book reviews, author interviews, or a virtual book club experience, out podcast is your go-to space for readers who love stories and want to explore them in depth. talk lit, get hit are reading and recording on Giabal, Jagera, Jarowair & Turrbal lands. we acknowledge the cultural diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and pay respect to Elders past, present and future. always was, always will be.

  6. Aug 10

    not another pucking hockey romance - the deal by elle kennedy

    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 seasons of breaking bad. can this ten-year-old book, (fresh off the back of an ultra-successful TV adaptation) stand the test of time, or will it age like milk? will garret graham and hannah wells help us overcome our bitter dislike of ice hockey romances once and for all? find out all the juicy details in the episode. synopsis music by Ievgen Poltavskyi send us your voice messages here 3 choose our next podcast read by going here and voting in the first week of each month! make sure you subscribe to hear our groundbreaking thoughts as soon as they are unleashed. if you want to be on the same page as us, follow us at talklit.gethit on Instagram and TikTok. theme music born from the creative genius of Big Boi B. join talk lit, get hit podcast for deep dives into the hottest BookTok recommendations, trending contemporary fiction, and literary favourites! each episode features book discussions, spoiler-filled chats, and thoughtful literary analysis of novels everyone is talking about - from viral romance and fantasy to modern classics. whether you’re looking for BookTok book reviews, author interviews, or a virtual book club experience, out podcast is your go-to space for readers who love stories and want to explore them in depth. talk lit, get hit are reading and recording on Giabal, Jagera, Jarowair & Turrbal lands. we acknowledge the cultural diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and pay respect to Elders past, present and future. always was, always will be.

  7. Jul 27

    a tale of cancellations, missteps and The PowerPoint - bonus chapter: famesick by lena dunham

    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 this new novel. we chat about hannah, jessa, marnie and shoshanna, the juicy details on adam driver, jenny konner and jack antonoff and of course, the infamous powerpoint. send us your voice messages here 3 choose our next podcast read by going here and voting in the first week of each month! make sure you subscribe to hear our groundbreaking thoughts as soon as they are unleashed. if you want to be on the same page as us, follow us at talklit.gethit on Instagram and TikTok. theme music born from the creative genius of Big Boi B. join talk lit, get hit podcast for deep dives into the hottest BookTok recommendations, trending contemporary fiction, and literary favourites! each episode features book discussions, spoiler-filled chats, and thoughtful literary analysis of novels everyone is talking about - from viral romance and fantasy to modern classics. whether you’re looking for BookTok book reviews, author interviews, or a virtual book club experience, out podcast is your go-to space for readers who love stories and want to explore them in depth. talk lit, get hit are reading and recording on Giabal, Jagera, Jarowair & Turrbal lands. we acknowledge the cultural diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and pay respect to Elders past, present and future. always was, always will be.

  8. Jul 13

    is this millennial tumblr classic deeply cringe or utterly devastating? - the fault in our stars by john green

    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 3 choose our next podcast read by going here and voting in the first week of each month! make sure you subscribe to hear our groundbreaking thoughts as soon as they are unleashed. if you want to be on the same page as us, follow us at talklit.gethit on Instagram and TikTok. theme music born from the creative genius of Big Boi B. join talk lit, get hit podcast for deep dives into the hottest BookTok recommendations, trending contemporary fiction, and literary favourites! each episode features book discussions, spoiler-filled chats, and thoughtful literary analysis of novels everyone is talking about - from viral romance and fantasy to modern classics. whether you’re looking for BookTok book reviews, author interviews, or a virtual book club experience, out podcast is your go-to space for readers who love stories and want to explore them in depth. talk lit, get hit are reading and recording on Giabal, Jagera, Jarowair & Turrbal lands. we acknowledge the cultural diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and pay respect to Elders past, present and future. always was, always will be.

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hello and welcome to talk lit, get hit. the book podcast for recovering book snobs where we read viral books the internet won’t shut up about and rate them lit or shit. we’re your hosts bridget and laura, lovers of sad girl fiction and tragic endings - fearers of smut, urban fantasy and the “who did this to you?” trope. join us as we pick apart all the books the internet loves and embark on a journey to figure out why. 

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