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Bad On Paper

Black Cake Book Club

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.84.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

It's time to talk about our March book club pick: Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson. We absolutely LOVED this book. We discuss what grabbed us about this book, the themes of not understanding your parents as individuals vs. parents and identity, all the food in this book (including black cake!), our feelings on the ending, and more!     We also say our podcast goodbyes to Grace! (IRL, we're planning our Charleston reunion as we speak) 

 

Books this reminded us of

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E. Smith

 

Obsessions 

Grace: Let's talk about the Stanley cups

Becca: Rare Beauty Liquid Touch Concealer Brush

 

What we read this week!

Grace: 

The Club by Ellery Lloyd

Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci

The Last Housewife by Ashley Winstead (check content warnings before picking this one up!)

Becca:

Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand 

The Arc by Tory Henwood Hoen

Something Wilder by Christina Lauren 

 

April Book Club Pick: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

 

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Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Grace Atwood and I'm Becca Freeman.

0:23.7

So today is Book Club and we are discussing Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson, which we both

0:28.9

loved.

0:29.9

I'm so excited to discuss it.

0:30.9

Yes.

0:31.9

And it's also Grace's last episode.

0:34.0

It is.

0:35.0

I feel like I'm saying goodbye, but I'm not because I'm so plastered all over the

0:38.9

internet.

0:39.9

So come see me on Instagram.

0:43.0

Come say hi if you miss me.

0:46.3

But today we're talking about Black Cake, which I was rereading.

0:49.8

Becca usually does the book outlines because I'm terrible with them.

0:53.8

I always leave out big chunks of plot or write it really awkwardly.

0:57.8

So reading through the outline was making me emotional all over just thinking about what

1:02.3

a good book this was.

1:03.6

I loved it.

1:04.6

I'm excited to talk about it.

1:06.0

Yeah.

1:07.0

Before we get into it, should we do some highs and lows?

1:08.8

Yes.

1:09.8

So what is your eye this week?

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