This week we’re talking Things with Carley Fortune, bestselling author of Meet Me at the Lake and Every Summer After, and This Summer Will Be Different, out May 7, 2024.

Carley’s Three Things Are:

Spring Dressing

Our relationship with social media (sparked by “Is there a sane way to use the internet” episode of Search Engine)

Her 3rd book This Summer Will Be Different, and Anne of Green Gables.

Also…we finally have MERCH!

Obsessions:

Becca: Just Bare Spicy Chicken Nuggets

Olivia: Diet Coke/Coke Zero Tall Boys

Reading:

Olivia: Anna Bright is Hiding Something by Susie Orman Schnall

This Month’s Book Club Pick - The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (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 April 2024 Book Club Pick, Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle! We share our thoughts on the book’s magical realism, debate if we’d consider it a romance novel, dive into the theme of fate vs. free will, share if we saw the twist coming, and so much more!

Obsessions

Becca: The Tortured Poets Department & Sun Bum Face Mist sunscreen

Olivia: “You’re Not The Only One I Know” by The Sundays

What we read this week

Becca: The Pairing by Casey McQuiston (out 8/6); The Prospects by KT Hoffman

Olivia: Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra, Sandwich by Catherine Newman (out 6/18), Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle

This Month’s Book Club Pick - The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (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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From new hobbies to writing stuff to upcoming travel and more, we’re taking this week to catch up on LIFE!

Substacks we’re into right now include Seester Seester by Ashley and Alexa Spivey, Gossip Time, Get it Write by Andrea Bartz, Hung Up with Hunter Harris.

(Also if anybody can relate to Olivia’s low, here’s a link to that Critter Catcher)

Obsessions

Olivia: Duluth women’s gardening overalls

Becca: ilovemahj.com

What we read this week

Becca: Not In Love by Ali Hazelwood

Olivia: Till Death Do Us Part Laurie Elizabeth Flynn out Aug 13

This Month’s Book Club Pick - Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle (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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