The Lit Lounge

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A podcast for readers and book lovers, hosted by a bunch of English teacher friends and some of their students and colleagues!

  1. 11/20/2024

    Beautiful Description, Crows and Airports.

    In this episode, Ayah in year 9 is in the hotspot and enthuses about her top picks to read! Despite being a slow reader, she savours the words she comes across and discusses how much she loves seeing people like her in fiction. See our books on social media! TikTok: @thelitloungepodcast Instagram: @thelitloungepodcast Twitter: @thelitloungepod Facebook: @thelitloungepodcast Music by Ikson: www.soundcloud.com/ikson

    32 min

  2. 06/02/2024

    Rolling Pins, Pocketbooks and Immortality.

    In this episode, we discuss our recent reads with the soothing background noise of sea gulls and trade labourers banging about to contend with. Laura enthuses about the prolific Stephen King, Beth chats about her reading gear change and Rose raves about Booktok fave Our Wives Under the Sea! See our books on social media! TikTok: @thelitloungepodcast Instagram: @thelitloungepodcast Twitter: @thelitloungepod Facebook: @thelitloungepodcast Music by Ikson: www.soundcloud.com/ikson

    38 min

  3. 02/13/2024

    Death Dates, Bread Boy and Hollywood Glamour.

    In this episode, we discuss our favourite fictional couples: tragic loving-too-late in They Both Die at the End, Coriolanus Snow & Lucy Grey's dark and complex relationship in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and the eponymous romances in The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Pheonix also makes an appearance with an outpouring of love for his new reads! See our books on social media! TikTok: @thelitloungepodcast Instagram: @thelitloungepodcast Twitter: @thelitloungepod Facebook: @thelitloungepodcast Music by Ikson: www.soundcloud.com/ikson

    49 min

  4. 01/02/2024

    Winter Weekend, Reading Fatigue and Crawling Out of Your Mum's Head!

    In this episode, the OGs (Laura, Beth and Rose) reminisce over their recent trip to Hay Festival's Winter Weekend 2023 together and catch up on their latest reads outside their local independent coffee shop! See our books on social media! TikTok: @thelitloungepodcast Instagram: @thelitloungepodcast Twitter: @thelitloungepod Facebook: @thelitloungepodcast Music by Ikson: www.soundcloud.com/ikson

    44 min

  5. 12/31/2023

    Spine-Tingling Books, Witch Hunts and Five Nights at Freddy's.

    In this episode, Sorcha and Rose talk about books that have given them the creeps and Harry talks about what makes him love the FNAF franchise. See our books on social media! TikTok: @thelitloungepodcast Instagram: @thelitloungepodcast Twitter: @thelitloungepod Facebook: @thelitloungepodcast Music by Ikson: www.soundcloud.com/ikson

    23 min

  6. 12/30/2023

    Stretch Goals, Binge Reading and Manic Dream Pixie Girls.

    In this episode, Sorcha and Rose update their progress towards their yearly reading goals and Ashmi joins us to debate the merits of John Green's female protagonists. See our books on social media! TikTok: @thelitloungepodcast Instagram: @thelitloungepodcast Twitter: @thelitloungepod Facebook: @thelitloungepodcast Music by Ikson: www.soundcloud.com/ikson

    23 min

  7. 12/29/2023

    PODCAST SPECIAL: Open Evening 2023

    In this episode, we host a collection of guests who attended the St Cyres Open Evening. Please excuse the background rock and roll from the music department next door to our school library (and some of Rose's cringy dad jokes)! Thanks to everyone who got involved! See our books on social media! TikTok: @thelitloungepodcast Instagram: @thelitloungepodcast Twitter: @thelitloungepod

    14 min

  8. 08/11/2023

    Updated Gothic, Historical Fiction and Knowing What You Eat

    Join us for our last (and belated) episode of this season's The Lit Lounge, where we are joined once more by Sorcha to discuss the ethics of eating meat in the Ethical Carnivore, how racism can upend lives in An American Marriage, and an update on the gothic genre in Mexican Gothic. Slight Trigger warning: this episode does detail animal slaughter and hunting.

    35 min
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