Lit with Kelley and Jaclyn, the podcast: Recent Episodes
Lit with Kelley and Jaclyn
A fun collection of book recommendations and drink recipes from two librarians who know their way around both!
Jen is back for our supersized 40th episode, during which we talk about how flight attendants fought hard for equal rights in the airline industry, and how that fight continues…
Did you miss us?! We’re back this month with a review of the penultimate Elin Nantucket novel, “The Five Star Weekend”. Talk to you again in February! Seriously, it’ll be…
Rebecca Makkai wrote a long book with lots to cover and we are all over the place in this ep! Talk to you this summer with our next discussion on…
Enjoy our discussion of the newest Grady Hendrix title, during which the amount of Jaclyn’s cackling is, like, double her average.
This time, we enjoy whiskey sours and discuss how tough it was for women living ahead of their time.
Enjoy this super-sized episode where we cover Elin’s new book, which references a whole slew of her previous stories!
One of our favorites for the year, enjoy this recap of “Remarkably Bright Creatures” and a chance to snag LWKJ merch!
Enjoy our discussion of this wildly outrageous slasher story, reminiscent of the horror stories of yore. Warning: some scenes in the book may affect people in distressing ways. Please be…
Enjoy this episode in which we trick ourselves into doing a not-so-classic tequila shot, while reviewing this classic title. This ep could have been 2 hours long, as there is…
Enjoy our 30TH EPISODE! We’ve been waiting for this book since hearing the preview in January. Thanks to anyone who’s been listening. We’re back in September 2022.
Enjoy episode 29 as we sip wine and share our best guesses at whodunit in this mystery.
Enjoy our review of Matt Haig’s “The Midnight Library” and our first (and maybe only) attempt at the classic martini.
Enjoy our recap of this title by Marie Benedict, and our peppermint schnapps martini, which is only about 3 months out of favor.
Enjoy our first intentional foray into romance books! Please be advised, there is a trigger warning in the author’s note of this book, related to abusive relationships.
Enjoy this super sized recap of our bucket list trip to Nantucket. We can’t make this stuff up.
We close out 2021 – what a year it’s been! – with some tasty treats (and some near fails!) from Holiday Cookbooks. Thanks for listening. Talk to you again in…
Enjoy this episode, and how Jaclyn discovers that making Eggnog is the worst idea she’s had in some time. This is NOT what it should look like.
Enjoy our Halloween-adjacent discussion of “The Final Girl Support Group”, the newest thrilling tale from LWKJ fave, Grady Hendrix.
Our hiatus was longer than planned, but we’re happy to be back, and are excited to talk about Golden Girl by Elin Hilderbrand. Listen until the end for our fun…
EPISODE 20 y’all! We welcome Jen back to the podcast, discuss how terrible people can be, and throw back some moonshine lemonade. It was a good session. We’re on hiatus…
Warning: There are lots of chewing, crunching, mmm-mmm-ing, sounds in this one, and we talk with our mouths full, a lot! But, listen in if you want our reviews of…
This time on LWK&J, we compare the print and audio versions, while going full southern refreshment with Alabama Slammers and Kelley’s Lemonade Cake.
Enjoy Episode 15 in which we lament the difficulty of reading a made up story about real people and are reminded, again, that we should limit our choices of rum…
Hit play above for a great margarita recipe and our really honest feelings about Firefly Lane the book, and Firefly Lane: the Netflix series.
Enjoy episode 13, in which we discuss how you hygge your life. It involves hot chocolate.
Hit play to hear our discussion on Clare Pooley’s “The Authenticity Project” and to find out if Kelley changes her mind about Bailey’s.
Enjoy our discussion of Viola Shipman’s (with a P!) “The Heirloom Garden”, in which Kelley never struggles with the word hybridize and Jaclyn compares the main character to Willy Wonka.
Enjoy our milestone tenth episode, featuring guest Jen; and during which you can probably pinpoint the exact moments that the associated cocktail kicks in. We’ll be back in January 2021…
Enjoy our discussion of “These Ghosts are Family” by Maisy Card, in which Kelley educates Jaclyn, again, on identifying vampires.
Enjoy our discussion of “Rebecca” by Daphne Du Maurier, and the movie iterations by Alfred Hitchcock and Ben Wheatley.
Enjoy our discussion of Louise Penny’s Still Life, book one in the Chief Inspector Gamache series.
Enjoy this synopsis of “The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires” by Grady Hendrix
TW: please be advised that a book and movie related to mental health and suicide are discussed in this episode. If you or a loved one are in distress, please call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 800-273-8255 to speak to someone 24/7.