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Bad On Paper

Before We Were Innocent Book Club

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

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

4.94.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

We’re so excited to discuss Before We Were Innocent by Ella Berman, a 2 time BOP book club author! This book fits right in the venn diagram of Becca and Olivia’s differing book tastes. We discuss how we felt about the friendship between the characters in the past vs present timeline (and between teenage girls in general), if we saw the twists coming, the Amanda Knox parallels, thoughts on the ending, and ask ourselves the question ‘who would you go to if you were suspected of murder?’

If you like this book, listen to the The Shit No One Tells You About Writing interview with Ella Berman, and for more books similar to Before We Were Innocent, check out The Comeback by Ella Berman, The The Villa by Rachel Hawkins, and I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai.

Obsessions

Becca: Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs

Olivia: Memes about Drew Barrymore’s interview style

What we read this week!

Olivia: Before We Were Innocent by Ella Berman

Becca: Yellowface by RF Kuang (out May 16)

May’s Book Club Pick - Coming soon!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi everyone and welcome to Bad on Paper podcast. I'm Olivia Mentor and I'm Becca Freeman.

0:22.5

And today is our April Book Club episode for Before We Are Innocent by Ella Berman.

0:27.5

A second time Bad on Paper Book Club author. Oh I didn't realize that you did her first book

0:32.7

before I'm bad on paper. We did yeah I guess it must have been... I guess it must have been

0:37.3

August of 2020 I believe? I wish I would have known I would have listened to it before this because

0:42.4

I haven't read it but I would be really interested to after reading this one. Yeah I think you'd like it.

0:47.5

We can talk about it a little bit more in the episode but before we get into this book tell me

0:51.8

you're high. My high is that I was kind of forced this past weekend to like have a true

0:57.3

do nothing weekend like oh that's kind of like sit on the couch watch whatever I wanted.

1:03.5

At one point I was just like scrolling through movies on HBO I cannot tell you the last time I

1:08.0

did that on a Saturday afternoon and I was kind of forced to because of my injury but it was actually

1:15.1

I think kind of good for me just to not be moving and doing stuff constantly and just be sitting there

1:21.3

and you know that's kind of a a privilege in itself just to chill so it was nice. The circumstances

1:27.5

the buttburn is not great but that sounds very nice to have a completely planless weekend.

1:34.4

Yeah it was good I watched a lot of episodes of Horders. Oh yeah it was pretty much the same

1:41.8

as Horders always is the plotline doesn't change much there but it was it was fun. Great.

1:47.8

What is your high? I have two highs that are both related to my first book the Christmas Orphans Club

1:54.6

so just some like exciting things have been happening so the first thing is I got my past pages

2:01.6

which is the step after copy editing and it's the first time that your book is formatted like a book

2:08.1

so it's set in book pages and designed with like the fonts and the chapter headings how it will

2:14.1

look and it has my name at the top of every other page like the left hand pages it has my name

2:20.3

at the top and it feels so official. That is so exciting I was gonna ask you if there's one like

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