Audition Book Club

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

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4.9 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

We’re SO excited to discuss Audition by Katie Kitamura! While this book may be hard to recap (uh, what actually happened??), we can’t wait to dive into theories and themes.

We share our feelings about the ambiguous plot and discuss the theme of performance throughout the book. We also explore overlaps with two other past pieces of favorite content.

And get ready, we’ll have a bonus episode out tomorrow with Katie Kitamura herself to get a behind-the-scenes look on the process of writing this book.

Obsessions

Becca - U Beauty tinted moisturizer

Olivia - Katie Kitamura (stay tuned for our bonus episode tomorrow!)

What we read this week

Becca - It’s a Love Story by Annabel Monaghan

Olivia - The Road To Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett

This Month’s Book Club Pick - All the Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman (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, and welcome to Bad on Paper podcast. I'm Olivia Mentor.
0:21.6	And I'm Becca Freeman.
0:22.9	And today is our book club episode for audition by Katie Kittamora.
0:27.5	I'm excited to chat about this.
0:29.0	I mean, spoiler, we're recording the intro after we recorded the beat of it.
0:33.1	So we already had the conversation.
0:34.4	But I'm excited for the listeners to listen to it.
0:36.8	And I'm equally
0:37.8	excited that we have a bonus episode tomorrow talking to Katie herself. And we had a fantastic
0:43.8	conversation and also got some closure. I so enjoyed that conversation. I've been thinking about it
0:50.2	ever since. Same. We exited the Zoom call. That's true of the book, too, to be honest.
0:56.3	Yeah, very true. Both worth listening to. Honestly, whether you read the book or not, it's interesting.
1:02.9	Well, before we get into Book Talk, tell me your high this week. My high is, I successfully kind of
1:08.9	hosted another event. So I'm really just full speed ahead on the hosting,
1:13.4	but it was just a very small baby shower for a friend who was pregnant. And it was a brunch, a baby brunch.
1:20.0	Are you in your party girl era? I guess. I guess I am. I'm taking a break from hosting for a little while,
1:26.1	though, because it is,
1:33.6	it's a whole, whole effort. But some people brought their kids, and there's people I did know,
1:39.6	people I didn't know. So it was really nice. But actually, the highlight of it, I would say,
1:46.5	is, so it was kind of a long day, you know, if it's 11, so I was up at 6, like getting stuff ready, going to pick up pastries.
1:49.3	And then everyone left around like four or five.
1:51.1	So it was, you know, it was long.
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