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Bad On Paper

Catching Up On Our Winter Break

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 12 January 2022

ā±ļø 88 minutes

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Summary

After a restorative break, we're back and ready to fill you in on what we were up to over the holidays! We talk about our high highs (Becca finishing the first draft of her book! Grace's Chappy Wrap collab dropping TODAY!) and low lows (Omicron anxiety). We also break down everything we read and watched during our time off!Ā 

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What Grace read over the break

The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller

Friends Like These by Kimberly McCreight

The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro

Just One Look by Lindsay Cameron *Grace's Top Recommendation!

Too Late by Colleen Hoover

In A New York Minute by Kate Spencer (out March 15!)

The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

Our American Friend by Anna Pitoniak

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What Becca read for over the break

Book Lovers by Emily Henry (out May 3!)

Playing with Matches by Hannah Orenstein

The Happily Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez

From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Wish You Were Here by Jodie PicoultĀ 

Golden Girl by Elin HilderbrandĀ 

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What Becca watched over the break

Harlem

Queer Eye Season 6

Finding You

The Long Shot

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What Grace watched over the break (and check out 2022 Oscars Best Picture Predictions!)

The Great

Station Eleven

Silent Night

The Last Duel

Mass (content warning: school shootings)

C'mon C'mon

The Truffle Hunters

The Lost Daughter

Passing

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What we both watched

Emily in ParisĀ 

And Just Like ThatĀ 

The Hating Game

Don't Look Up

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Instagram Obsessions

Grace: @socialclubofficiel

Becca: @carolinagelen

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ObsessionsĀ 

Grace: Ella Ora Skin Therapy Clinic, Smythson Soho Cosmic Travel Diary

Becca: Shop.app, J. Crew oversized cashmere wrap, Sim City BuildIt

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What We're Currently Reading

Grace: Atomic Habits by James Clear, Everything We Didn't Say by Nicole Baart

Becca: Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert (again!), Crave by Tracy Wolff

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Our January Bookclub Pick

Wish You Were Here by Jodie PicoultĀ 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, welcome back to Bad on Paper Podcast.

0:21.0

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

0:24.0

And we're back from break.

0:25.6

Becca, I guess we'll talk about how our breaks were, like in the body of the body of

0:29.9

the episode.

0:30.9

This whole episode is catch up because it's a big catch up.

0:34.3

Man, even just talking about what we read and what we watched would take a whole episode.

0:39.3

So we're just, we're given an episode to catch up what we did over the break, what we

0:42.9

read, what we watched, what we felt.

0:45.9

Yeah, what what we ate, just all things catch up.

0:50.5

Everything.

0:51.5

Catch up.

0:52.5

Everything.

0:53.5

Being not the condiment.

0:54.5

Yes.

0:55.5

Well, it's your high this week.

1:07.8

Okay, so my high, yeah, I wasn't sure how to do this, so I just picked my highest high from the time we were off.

1:13.1

So my highest high is that I finished the first draft of my book.

1:18.0

Yeah, that is such a high on December 29th.

1:22.3

But I am excited and I feel energized that I have something to edit from.

1:29.7

So I think now I have no idea how this process works.

1:32.4

I'm kind of daunted by the editing process, to be honest, but I think I'm going to take

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