So LC is getting her room painted so we're in a weird new studio that's all echoey and loud. We can't figure out if we're cool with it or not (feat Chloe whisper-shouting). But that didn't stop us from getting into Lauren Kung Jessen's astrology flavoured rom-com Lunar Love!

• Katie being super sweaty, super aggro about this book for some reason and how she whistles when she orders Subway
• Chloe is trying to bully the girls into adding to 10 years with BTS social media thing. Also she's pretty sure Jungkook is sending her coded messages in his karaoke choices. It's all part of her dealing with her upcoming military wife status
• Chloe low-key forgetting how to read halfway through the author bio. Which might be a side effect of exposure to Bennet's arms. Which she really did not stop talking about. This whole bicep exposure she's getting with the 4th gen KPop groups is making her EVEN thirstier
• How talking about real love has us talking about LC and her bloke's stupid happy marriage - mutual respect, teamwork, and pretending to be a 10 year old boy from Tallaght
• New love vs stable relationships - which is better? And is that harder for folks that are LGBTQ, since straight folks (straight girls anyway) be all flirty but not interested
• Our opinions on the zodiac and whether it takes advantage of vulnerable people or not
• How astrology deep dives can fuel the romance of the beginning of a relationship
• Can you appropriate your own culture? With a sidebar into Chloe's deep-seated fear of traditional Irish music sessions. Which, to be fair, are terrifying

It's all in the latest Chick Lit 4 Life!

We are back! Even a weird & confusingly specific increase in LC's normal job work couldn't keep us from finally getting our episode on Kate Solly's Tuesday Evenings at the Copeton Crochet Collective together!

What do the girls get into? Well, we've got:

- Crochet and it's power to bring people together - no seriously we've seen it - LC's Mam yarnbombs with her knitting club. It's serious shit
- Racism, particularly as it pertains to people migrating from war or famine. A very timely issue in Ireland in 2023
- How having a bunch of young kids seems like the scariest thing in human existence, and Katie & Sersh get into the whole biological countdown they do be feeling
- Yasmin's character - seriously we would have read a whole book just about her
- The 'soft' racism that Yasmin has to deal with - that at least 2 of the girls could imagine themselves perpetrating without meaning to
- Katie's head exploding from loving Harper's character, and digging that Sr Ruth wanted to help her, despite her being a nun and therefore the ANTIKATIE
- The mindreading and judgement going on among the crochet group and how it reminded us of a LOT of the same things we do
- Bad bitch energy and why Katie would thank Megan Thee Stallion for stepping on her neck

Tangents? You got it - the girls also got into:

- How K-Pop powerhouse Stray Kids are Austraian and so is Kate. We don't need more than that for a link you guys. Also Katie is cheating on BTS's Yoongi with SKZ Changbin. She's got a thing for Korean rappers…
- Shout out to Buzzfeed getting Eric Nam to read thirst tweets. It's the best thing that has ever happened in the history of the world
- And Sarah and Clee discussing having their period during bedroom dance party sessions. No seriously

It's all here in the latest Chicklit4Life!!

You guys - it's the last show of 2022! We were able to get one last book into the year - Kiley Dunbar's SPARKLING "Christmas at the Borrow A Bookshop"!

Eagle-eyed listeners will know we've covered this book's predecessor in Series 6, and this second installment in the series is JUST as gorgeous!

Topics covered include (but are not limited to):

• We love that it's not a Hallmark movie Christmas story. That would have triggered us too hard
• Jowan is a bad bitch and Saoirse absolutely would
• Magnus and Alex falling in love at first sight and what that has to do with the unbearable lightness of being (oh we can get wanky if we want you guys)
• Magnus triggering all our internalised misogyny by being a feminist ICON
• The Pride & Prejudice insertion and a related argument over whether that is better content than the time BTS's Jungkook's jacket couldn't withstand his pecs
• The romance of someone taking responsibility for themselves for the sake of the other person
• Ben being the actual worst. Seriously, he is lucky he's not a real person. He would have caught these hands
• The whole book is a death defying balance between high romance, sexy sexual tension, proper melodrama and some serious old school action - anchored in people being human and understanding that dramatic stuff is transient - being okay in yourself is the one thing we can work towards as a constant. And we are HERE FOR IT

Plus, it wouldn't have been an episode without some tangents right? We found ourselves talking, for some reason, about:

•  How we're freezing
• Chloe's stance on bobble hats
• BTS's Jin going into the military and the weirdly biased Wikipedia page about women in the Korean military
• What is quite possibly our very first masturbation joke ever (how did we make it this long?
• Katie's mam makes her own mince pies. No one is surprised. 
• Though all her adorableness is harnessed at this time of the year to help the St Vincent de Paul Christmas appeal and we encourage our listeners to support similar organisations if they're in the position to do so :)

It's all here in this week's Chick Lit 4 Life!