It’s Three Things time! We’re covering topics from Olivia’s family parasocial obsession, spin-off books, sleep routines, party snacks, and more!

Olivia’s Things

Standout Book Covers of 2025

The Today Show Hosts’ Impact on Boomers

What snacks would you be excited to find at a party?

Becca’s Things

What book characters do you want to read a spinoff about?

Glennon Doyle’s week on Substack

Sleep Routines

Obsessions

Becca - Forever 31

Olivia - Four Seasons

What we read this week

Olivia - Ravishing by Eshani Surya, The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean

Becca - The Art of Vanishing by Morgan Pager

This Month’s Book Club Pick - Audition by Katie Kitamura (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at badonpaperpodcast@gmail.com)

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So excited to talk about our April Book Club Pick, Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy! We went into this book without much context and loved experiencing this literary mystery. We discuss what genre this book falls in, our feelings on climate fiction, the real-life inspirations behind this books, and of course the many twists and turns of the mystery plotline.

Obsessions

Becca - Wegmans Cannoli chips and dip

Olivia - Daffodils

What we read this week

Becca - Anatomy of A Breakthrough by Adam Alter, Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

This Month’s Book Club Pick - Audition by Katie Kitamura (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at badonpaperpodcast@gmail.com)

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We thought it was time for a good ol’ catch-up! We have much to cover, including (but not limited to) writing updates, new journaling habits, career developments, travel plans, spring hobbies, and MORE!

Highly recommend reading What is Glitter by Caity Weaver in the New York Times

Obsessions

Becca - Soeos White Peach Candy

Olivia - He Wasn’t Man Enough by Toni Braxton

What we read this week

Olivia - This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead, The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai, Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin, The Dream Hotel by Laila Lailami

Becca - Quicksilver by Callie Hart

This Month’s Book Club Pick - Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at badonpaperpodcast@gmail.com)

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This week, we're talking about rejection, failure, and how two guests dealt with them! First, we’re talking to New York Times best-selling author Andrea Bartz about navigating rejection on submission, and the daily rejections entailed in living a creative life. Then, we’re talking to Azora Zoe Paknad about shuttering her business and going back to the corporate world.

You can read more from Andrea in her newsletter, Get It Write, and her books The Spare Room, We Were Never Here, The Herd, and The Lost Night. Her latest novel, The Last Ferry Out, is out May 20.

Read more from Azora in her newsletter, First Rodeo. You may also remember our episode from 2020 about starting her eco-friendly e-commerce marketplace, Goldune.

Obsessions

Olivia - Butter Pecan Iced Coffee at Dunkin

Becca - The audiobook Anatomy of a Breakthrough by Adam Alter

What we read this week

Becca - Audition by Katie Kitamura, Filthy Rich Fae by Geneva Lee

Olivia - Old Money by Kelsey Miller (Out September 30!)

This Month’s Book Club Pick - Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at badonpaperpodcast@gmail.com)

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Have you ever wondered how a bookstore runs? We think about it all the time, and we are so thrilled to get the scoop from the owner of Liz’s Book Bar in Brooklyn, and author of Acts of Forgiveness, Maura Cheeks!

We chat with Maura about her dreams of opening a bookstore, what the opening process entails, how Liz’s Book Bar stands out, the book selection process, and how she published her first novel and opened Liz’s Book Bar in the same year.

A book frequently purchased at Liz’s Book Bar is Scorpionfish by Natalie Bakopoulos.

Obsessions

Becca - Ken Leung being miles on Lost and Eric in Industry. (anti-obsession of Fruit Riot Sour Candy Grapes)

Olivia - The Severance Season 2 Finale

What we read this week

Olivia - The Favorites by Layne Fargo

Becca - Can’t Get Enough by Kennedy Ryan (out 5/13)

This Month’s Book Club Pick - Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at badonpaperpodcast@gmail.com)

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It’s time to discuss our March book club pick: Deep Cuts by Holly Brickley! We talk about which timeline we gravitated toward most through the story’s 8-year span, the unique relationship dynamic between Percy and Joe, what makes a romance literary, and more!

More Literary Romances

Talking at Night by Claire Daverley

Shark Heart by Emily Habeck

Normal People by Sally Rooney

Beautiful World, Where are You by Sally Rooney

This Is a Love Story by Jessica Soffer

Obsessions

Relationships by Haim

Adolescence on Netflix

This Month’s Book Club Pick - Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at badonpaperpodcast@gmail.com)

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Music is on our minds (especially with our music-focused March book club pick, Deep Cuts by Holly Brickley) and so today we’re discussing our musical references from different eras of our lives!

You can listen to the full playlist of all of our favorites here.

Obsessions

Becca - Duolingo Max

Olivia - Jackie and Shadow

What we read this week

Olivia - The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark, The Three Lives of Cate Kay by Kate Fagan, The Art of Vanishing by Morgan Pager (Out July 1)

Becca - Greenlights by Matthew McCoughnahey

This Month’s Book Club Pick - Deep Cuts by Holly Brickley (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at badonpaperpodcast@gmail.com)

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