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🗓️ 30 October 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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October Book Club is here! It's time to share our feelings about Bel Canto by Ann Patchett. We covered our reading experience, the real-life stories that inspired the book, side characters we loved, and if we enjoyed the controversial epilogue, and more!
If you liked this book, you may like Anxious People by Fredrik Backman!
Obsessions
Olivia: Andrew Garfield (shoutout to his Chicken Shop Date)
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What we read this week
Olivia: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney, Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, and The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
This Month’s Book Club Pick - Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at [email protected])
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0:00.0 | You're going to go. Hi everyone and welcome to Battle Paper Podcast, I'm Olivia Mentor and I'm Becca Freeman and today is our Bell |
0:24.4 | Kanto book club episode for October. There's a lot here. Becca put together |
0:31.3 | a banger of an outline and I'm ready to dive in. |
0:34.4 | I'm ready to teach a master class on this book or maybe not teach a master class just talk a lot. |
0:39.2 | I am too but I feel like you have the more interesting information, so I'm ready to go through it all. |
0:44.7 | Well, before we get into that, what is your high? My high is that I've just been really like busy lately and I have this book fair coming up which would have already |
0:54.8 | happened when this goes live but I've been just dealing with that and then I'm writing a lot |
1:00.3 | I've been working on sub stack I have like sort of a new substack format I've been |
1:05.2 | experimenting with and I'm really excited about and it's just been busy in like |
1:09.9 | an good way. I just I guess for most of the past like three months I've just been in this like sort of limbo state |
1:16.9 | waiting for stuff with work and book stuff and I just feel like now I'm really full seam ahead. |
1:21.7 | I'm just productive and busy and happy and excited to see you this weekend and yeah, it's just good. |
1:27.0 | It's always great when busy falls on the high side of the highs and low spectrum. |
1:32.0 | Yeah, it's true. |
1:33.6 | It's a good busy. |
1:34.6 | It's like a, oh, I'm doing so many things I'm excited about and happy about and, and yeah, it's a very |
1:39.7 | good feeling. |
1:40.7 | That's great. |
1:41.7 | Well, what's your high? My high is absolutely that I'm coming up state this weekend. |
1:46.3 | The Reddit haters can rejoice that I finally weezled myself an invitation. |
1:50.9 | I am so excited. Olivia is so cute. She has put together like frankly almost a minute |
1:59.3 | by minute itinerary of what we're going to do, but like with cheeky commentary, like I can't wait. |
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