Bad On Paper – Details, episodes & analysis

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.) 

Olivia - Allegra Goodman, Joshua Burnside

Becca - Francis Featherstone, Anna Kwan, Sarah Martinez, Barbara Bourland

Best Song of The Year 

Olivia - Baby Steps by Olivia Dean

Becca - Moves by Suki Waterhouse

Best Movie or Show of The Year: 

Olivia - Train Dreams

Becca - The Summer I Turned Pretty

Best Purchase of the Year 

Olivia - Shiseido Illuminating Micro Spot Serum

Becca - Weighted Eye Mask

Best Sandwich of The Year 

Olivia - Fork & Whisk Chicken Salad

Becca - Hillstone French dip

Obsession:

Becca - Margaret from Bad Art Everyday's Post

Olivia - Pluribus

Reading:

Olivia - Wreck by Catherine Newman

Becca - Between Two Kings by Lindsay Straube, I Wrote This for Attention by Lukas Gage

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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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!

Also, the Wall Street Journal's profile of Virginia Evans is a great read.

Obsession:

Becca - Leset Pointelle Boxer Pants

Reading:

Olivia - The Fox Hunt by Caitlin Breeze (Out February 16, 2026)

Becca - Daddy Issues by Kate Goldbeck, Between Two Kings by Lindsay Straube

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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Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more! 

Buy our Merch!

Join our BFF Group!

Preorder Olivia's Book, Little One, and order Such a Bad Influence!

Subscribe to Olivia's Newsletter!

Order Becca's Book, The Christmas Orphans Club!

Subscribe to Becca's Newsletter! 

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Olivia on Instagram @oliviamuenter and Becca @beccamfreeman.

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!  

Obsessions

Olivia - One Trick Pony Peanut Butter

Becca - Westman Atelier Blush in Coquette

What we read this week

Olivia - Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

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)

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Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more! 

Buy our Merch!

Join our Geneva!

Preorder Olivia's Book, Little One, and order Such a Bad Influence!

Subscribe to Olivia's Newsletter!

Order Becca's Book, The Christmas Orphans Club!

Subscribe to Becca's Newsletter! 

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Olivia on Instagram @oliviamuenter and Becca @beccamfreeman.

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! 

Best Entertainment 

Best TV Show

Becca - The Diplomat

Olivia - Shrinking 

Best Movie

Becca - Barbie

Olivia - Past Lives 

Best (New to us) Podcast

Becc - Writer's Routine, Publishing Rodeo

Olivia - Writer's Routine

Best Concert

Olivia - The Eras Tour, Noah Kahan 

Best Album

Becca - You'll Get It When You're Older by Blake Rose

Olivia - Stick Season (We'll All Be Here Forever), Noah Kahan 

Best Song

Becca - Is It Over Now by Taylor Swift; That Was Then by Emily James; Call Your Mom by Noah Kahan w/ Lizzy McAlpine

Olivia - The View Between Villages, Noah Kahan,  Not Strong Enough by BoyGenius, Labour by Paris Paloma

Best (New to us) IG follow

Becca - @Famouspplreading 

Olivia - @Oh_apostrophe

Best BOP episode

Becca - Obscure Erotica Book Reviews, How Becca's Book Got Made

Olivia -Obscure Erotica Book Reviews, The Christmas Orphans Club Book Club, Spooky Season Reads with Ashley Winstead, The Official BOP Beach Read Roundup

Shopping

Best clothing purchase

Becca - Birkenstock Boston Clogs, Jeans that came in my Stitch Fix order

Olivia - Skims Fits Everybody T-Shirt Bra 

Best beauty purchase

Becca - Rare Beauty Liquid Blush in Grace, R+Co Trophy Texture and Shine Spray

Olivia -  Winky Lux PH Changing Lip Balm OR Sol de Janeiro Brazillian Crush Body Spray

Best home purchase

Becca - Garlic chopper

Olivia - ShopVac 

Best misc purchase

Becca - Five-year journal

Olivia - Boll & Branch bedding

Obsessions

Olivia - Harney & Sons Pumpkin Spice Tea

Becca - Prismacolor 05 and Pigma Graphic 1 Pens

What we read this week!

Becca - Story Genius by Lisa Cron

Olivia - Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

Sponsors

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Macmillan - Read or Listen to What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshal and All The Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham and other Macmillan titles wherever books and audiobooks are sold. 

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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! 

Obsessions

Becca - Dorsey tennis necklace

Olivia - Flameless candles

What we read this week

Olivia - Talking at Night by Claire Daverley

Becca - Lovelight Farms by BK Borison

Sponsors

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Macmillan -  listen to your favorite Macmillan titles like Minka Kelly's memoir Tell Me Everything and John Stamos' memoir If You Would Have Told Me wherever books and audiobooks are sold. 

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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! 

Our Picks:

BFF - Rainbow Splash Cups from Coming Soon, Fancy Friend Dates, Colorful/fancy matches + match strikers

Co-worker/casual acquaintance - 5 $1 scratch-off tickets + Le Pens, Kaweco pens, Inside Joke merch + DIY work kit.

Significant other/spouse - Concert/Comedy tickets, Framed objects from Framebridge, Flaviar Whiskey Advent Calendar

The Person Who Has Everything - Let's Eat by Grossy Pelosi or More is More by Molly Baz,  Sweater Shaver, The Sleep Crown, 

Stocking stuffer - Amazon hair clips, Tate's Bake Shop Cookie Bark, Microstitch, Identity protection stamps

Self - Missoma Jelly Heart Charm Bracelet, Bose Quiet Comfort Headphones, Dorsey Clemence Necklace

Tween Gifts - Drunk Elephant and Glow Recipe skincare, water bottles. 

Bookish Gifts - Lechtrum 5-Year Journal, Papier Reading Journal, The Cock Mark 

Olivia's High

Lauren Scott's CEOverthinker Substack post

Obsessions

Becca - Peppermint mocha creamer season

Olivia - J. Crew Cashmere Sweater

What we read this week!

Becca - Maybe Once, Maybe Twice by Allison Rose Greenberg

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)

Sponsors

• Cozy Earth - Get 35% off sitewide when you use the code "BOP" at cozyearth.com

• Macmillan Audio - listen to your favorite Macmillan titles like Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? by Crystal Smith Paul and the Finlay Donovan series by Elle Cosimano wherever books and audiobooks are sold. 

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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. 

Olivia's Nightstand: Weleda Skin Food, Aquaphor stick, books (currently: Rooms of Our Own by Louise Pennington, Talking at Night by Claire Daverley, The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue), Necessaire Body Serum, a pile of dried contacts, glasses, claw clip graveyard, water bottle graveyard.  

Becca's Nightstand: Gold Bond Crepe Corrector, Ring Dish from West Elm, Retainers, Tatcha Lip Mask, Laneige Lip Mask, Goop Night Cream (discontinued), Ear Plugs, Diptyque Rose Candle, Ahava baby eczema cream, Amazon Alarm Clock, Amazon sleep mask, Globe bedside sconce (old/unavailable), Princess flashlight.

Listener Nightstand essentials include reading lights, mouth tape, micellar water, Stanley water bottle, Lush Sleepy Lotion,  Eye Bra Eye Masks, Tempur-Pedic Sleep Masks,  Amazon Smart Plugs & Echo, Dr. Teals Foot Cream

Obsessions

Becca - @famouspplreading, Iron Flame TikTok

Olivia - Escaping Twin Flames Docuseries

What we read this week!

Becca - Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

Olivia - All Sinners Bleed by SA Cosby, My Murder by Katie Wiliams

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)

Sponsors

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Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more! 

Subscribe to Olivia's Newsletter!

Preorder Becca's Book! 

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Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Olivia on Instagram @oliviamuenter and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Time for a fun batch of Things! Three from each of us, to be exact. 

Olivia's Things

What are your holiday vibes for 2023?

Opinions on New Year's Eve as a Holiday

Is long hair cheugy now?

Becca's Things

Becca's new favorite kitchen tool - a garlic-chopper

The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

What are your glimmers?

Obsessions

Olivia - Geneva!

Becca - Knitting

What we read this week!

Olivia: You Shouldn't Have Come Here by Jeneva Rose 

B: 1,000 Words by Jami Attenberg (out 1/9); The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

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)

Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more! Or join our Geneva!

Subscribe to Olivia's Newsletter!

Preorder Becca's Book! 

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Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Olivia on Instagram @oliviamuenter and Becca @beccamfreeman.

To celebrate the start of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) we're chatting with Carly Watters, SVP and Senior Literary Agent at P.S Literary and co-host of The Shit No One Tells You About Writing Podcast!

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! 

Books about writing Carly recommends 

On Writing by Stephen King  

Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses

Obsessions

Olivia - Tayvis (Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce)

Becca -  A Thing or Two's October 9 Episode: Rats, Rain Clogs, and Romance, Birkenstock Boston Clogs 

What we read this week

Olivia - The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff 

Becca - Do Your Worst by Rosie Danan (out 11/14)

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)

Sponsors

Prose - Take your FREE in-depth hair consultation and get 15% off your first order today at  Prose.com/bop. 

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Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more! 

Subscribe to Olivia's Newsletter!

Preorder Becca's Book! 

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Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Olivia on Instagram @oliviamuenter and Becca @beccamfreeman.

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! 

Obsessions

Becca - Jessica Yellin's newsletter; Under the Desk News

Olivia - Past Lives 

What we read this week!

Becca - Witch of Wild Things by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Throwback by Maurene Goo, The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon

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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Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more! 

Subscribe to Olivia's Newsletter!

Preorder Becca's Book! 

Like and subscribe to RomComPods and Bone Marry Bury! Available wherever you listen to podcasts. 

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Olivia on Instagram @oliviamuenter and Becca @beccamfreeman.