Latest Lit reviews Podcast Episodes

Getting Fiery with An Ember in The Ashes

Getting Literate - July 18, 2021 11:00 - 55 minutes
This week on Getting Literate, Katie and Julia venture into the YA fantasy/Roman-inspired world of An Ember in The Ashes, lamenting unsexy protagonists, and thirsting over sexy side-characters, and appreciating the fuck out of a well-crafted villain. Katie will always think the villain is kinda ...

Getting Testy with The Testaments

Getting Literate - July 11, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour
This week on Getting Literate, Katie and Julia tackle the sequel to The Handmaid's Tale -- The Testaments. The gals delve into what class of woman they'd choose to be (surprise, it's changed!), feminists who aren't really feminist, and the twisty, hole-y timeline between the first and second boo...

Getting Pissed with The Handmaid's Tale

Getting Literate - July 04, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour
This week on Getting Literate, Katie and Julia dissect the feminist/not-so-feminist world of the Handmaid's Tale. The gals chat about why dystopian novels need women, which class of women they'd be, and Margaret Atwood's public life. Julia tries to make haters out of people who wanted her to rea...

Getting Heisty with Six of Crows

Getting Literate - June 27, 2021 11:00 - 50 minutes
This week on Getting Literate, Katie and Julia return to the Grishaverse with Six of Crows, another installment by Leigh Bardugo. The gals chat about heist literature, capitalism as a religion, and the complex characters that make up the cast of the novel. Julia would live and die for Nina, and ...

Getting Blithering Drunk with Wuthering Heights

Getting Literate - June 20, 2021 11:00 - 51 minutes
This week on Getting Literate, Katie and Julia traipse about the misty moors of Wuthering Heights, and try their best to survive reading it. The gals chat about gossipy bitches, whether or not Heathcliff is black, and all of the mental illness that runs rampant in this novel. Julia attempts to d...

Getting Uncomfy with Normal People

Getting Literate - June 13, 2021 11:00 - 59 minutes
This week on Getting Literate, Katie and Julia get major flashbacks to past relationships as they endeavour to finish Normal People by Sally Rooney. The gals chat about Sally Rooney's impeccable writing, main character syndrome, and why sometimes being a sad jock boy just isn't enough. Julia dra...

Getting Jazzy with The Great Gatsby

Getting Literate - June 06, 2021 11:00 - 56 minutes
This week on Getting Literate, Katie and Julia travel to 1920's Long Island for Julia's favourite book of all time, The Great Gatsby. The gals chat about the unreliable honesty of Nick Carraway, whether or not Owl-Eyes represents Death, and Nick's not-so-hetero sex life. Katie wonders what love ...

Getting Religious with The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Getting Literate - May 30, 2021 11:00 - 53 minutes
This week on Getting Literate, Katie and Julia take a little trip to purgatory, a.k.a trying to remember whether you’re reading the UK or US edition of a book. The gals chat about the horrifying goodness of plague doctors, shitty twists for the sake of twists, and who should have actually been k...

Getting Nostalgic for Twilight

Getting Literate - May 23, 2021 14:34 - 45 minutes
This week on Getting Literate Katie and Julia have a blast to the past and re-read Twilight for the first time in 10 years, and discuss not realizing the extreme and glaring issues that they were ignorant at the tender age of 12. Older, wiser, woke-er, and bitter, the gals wonder what Stephanie ...

Getting Into Shadow and Bone

Getting Literate - May 16, 2021 18:52 - 55 minutes
This week on Getting Literate, Katie and Julia tackle YA fantasy's eternal question: Have you ever met a teenage girl? The gals talk about the merits of bullying your main character, the whininess of adolescence, and being "not like other girls" (but sometimes its true). Katie thinks it's icky t...

Getting to Know Us

Getting Literate - May 16, 2021 18:47 - 6 minutes
Hi! Welcome to your introduction to the gals behind Getting Literate, a short and sweet first listen to the gals behind the mics, and our opportunity to say hi and give you an approximation of our personalities. Stay tuned for more books, more drinking, and more indulging ourselves in the sounds...