The year is coming to a close, and you know what that means! It's time to look back at our highs of 2025. We reminisce on work wins, new hobbies, mantras, and more!
Best New Artist Discovery of The Year (Author, Artist, Filmmaker, Dancer, etc.)
It's time for our final book club episode of 2025! We're discussing a book we've been seeing everywhere, The Correspondent by Virginia Evans. We talk about why we think this book has become so popular, if we've read epistolary novels before, our thoughts on the novelty of the mother/daughter relationship, how it brought up feelings about retirement for us both, and more!
This Month's Book Club Pick - No December book club, but now's the perfect time to catch up on past book club picks!
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Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance Book Club
Season 1 · Episode 390
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 • Duration 01:04:42
September is coming to a close, and you know what that means! Time to talk about this month's book club pick, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance by Alison Espach. We discuss our expectations going into this book based on the cover, how it balanced its dark themes with humor, what we thought of the relationships, and more!
This Month's Book Club Pick - Heart The Lover by Lily King (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)
As the year comes to a close, we want to look back at the good stuff and discuss our best of 2023! We dive into our personal best moments and talk about some of our favorite things from this year!
This week, we're diving into Becca's Book, The Christmas Orphans Club! This is the ONLY time we'll be spoiling this book for a while, so if you haven't read the book yet and don't want to get spoiled, save this episode for when you finish the book!
We talk about what elements of the book were there since Becca's first draft, the highs and lows of their writing process, how she balanced the lighthearted tone with big emotions, and what book-related questions she wished she got asked more. Becca also answers listener questions about characters, story choices, and more!
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2023 Gift Guide with My Sister Made Me Buy It
Season 1 · Episode 297
Wednesday, November 22, 2023 • Duration 57:01
Happy gift guide season! This week we're talking all things gifts with Sarah of @my.sister.made.me.buy.it, an account full of fashion, undergarment, blanket, travel, and pen recommendations. We share gift ideas for BFFs, Co-Workers, Significant Others, Tweens, People who have everything, and what we'd gift ourselves!
Lotion! Books! Earplugs! Dried-up contact lenses! This week, we're talking about our nightstand essentials from the things that improve our nighttime routine to the things that are just weird.
This Month's Book Club Pick - The Christmas Orphans Club by Becca Freeman (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)
We ask Carly about trends in fiction, how to know when a manuscript is ready, how book deals are made, if it actually is harder than ever to sell a book right now, and more!
This week we're talking about our October Book Club Pick, The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon! We talk about Becca's expectations of the book vs what her thoughts were reading, our thoughts on the second person narration, how the book centered the women in this story, if the ending surprised and satisfied us, and more!
Trigger warning for sexual assault in this book, so please skip it if you're not in a place to listen!
November's Book Club Pick - The Christmas Orphans Club by Becca Freeman (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 Month's Book Club Pick - The Christmas Orphans Club by Becca Freeman (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 Month's Book Club Pick - The Christmas Orphans Club by Becca Freeman (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 Month's Book Club Pick - The Christmas Orphans Club by Becca Freeman (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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