Atmosphere Book Club

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

Skincare, Beauty, Society & Culture, Comedy, Advice, Books, Arts, Careers

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🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

It’s book club day! We’re so excited to talk about our listener-selected book club pick, Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid. There’s a lot to cover in this story set during the 1980s space race. We discuss our feelings about the main characters, the aspects of the book we gravitated towards, our favorite space songs, and more!

Obsessions:

Becca - Ruby lobster roll off watercolor painting

Olivia - Alexander Skarsgard interview circuit

Reading:

Olivia - Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid, What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown

Becca - Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Loved One by Aisha Muharrar (out 8/12)

This Month’s Book Club Pick - The Knight and The Moth by Rachel Gillig (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at [email protected])

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone back to Bad on Paper podcast. I'm Becca Freeman. And I'm Olivia Mentor.
0:23.5	And it's Book Club Day. We're going to be talking about Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reed. You may have
0:29.7	heard of it. I gobbled this up this week in probably like total three and a half hours. It was, I was zooming through.
0:39.1	I'm excited to discuss.
0:41.3	Also, very importantly, this was your pick, not you, Olivia, you, the listener.
0:45.2	So you picked this book in the Facebook group and we're discussing it.
0:49.5	So excited to deliver on what you want.
0:52.6	I'm glad you all did.
0:54.0	Okay. Before we get to the book, let's do highs and lows.
0:56.8	What is your high?
0:58.2	My high is that I have checked off another, I don't know, small town badge of honor, I guess.
1:05.9	I'm not sure what to call it.
1:07.9	As I've said many times, we found this independent movie theater here that we love.
1:12.2	And we've been going like one or two times a week basically all summer. It is, I know, I love it so much.
1:19.6	It is so cold in there. They have snacks. We go with friends. They have drinks. They have pinball machines.
1:26.9	And now they know us. And when we come back,
1:30.4	they're like, welcome back. And as we all know, I love to be seen and recognized within my community.
1:36.8	It's been so nice. And there's something about going to the movies a lot that I find really healing
1:42.2	because I used to go all the time in high school. And I think I got
1:47.7	traumatized as most of the nation probably did by the shootings that happened in movie theaters,
1:54.2	specifically the midnight showing of, I think it was the dark night that happened in Colorado.
1:58.7	That was when I was in high school. And I just remember from
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