Funny You Should Ask Book Club

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

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🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

It's finally time to talk about Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman! We loved this book and we’re so excited to talk about it. We share our feelings and respond to listener calls about the book, its characters, its two timelines, and if we think the book accurately reflects how Hollywood operates today.

We also talk about the celebs we pictured as Gabe Parker, Olivia shares her celebrity interview stories, and we defend our celebrity crushes.

Obsessions

Becca: Pineapple Spindrift

Olivia: Birkenstock EVA Sandals (Becca also loves these foam faux Birkenstocks!)

What we read this week!

Olivia:

This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub

The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins

Cover Story by Susan Rigetti

Becca:

Flying Solo by Linda Holmes

This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub

Mad About You by Mhairi McFarlane

June's Book Club Pick: Cover Story by Susan Rigetti

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, welcome to Bad on Paper podcast. I'm Olivia Mentor and I'm Becca Freeman.
0:23.8	And today we're talking about Funny You Should Ask by Alyssa Sussman. This is our
0:28.0	Book Club episode for May. This was one of my most speed reads ever. I think I
0:35.4	didn't even blank reading it basically. All in one sitting, it is such a fun book
0:40.4	and I'm excited to talk about it with Becca. I'm very excited but before we do
0:44.6	that, this episode is sponsored by Knight. The makers are our favorite silk pillow
0:48.1	cases. If you're ready to upgrade your sleep experience, you can take 20% off
0:52.2	almost everything on their site at DiscoverNight.com with code Bad on Paper. We'll
0:57.0	tell you more about it later in the episode. Let's talk about some highs and lows.
1:01.6	Let's do it. What is your high? I will be honest with you that I am having quite a
1:09.2	low month. I do not know if I believe in Mercury retrograde but it's putting
1:16.3	on a show. So I'm having a rough time right now. I will say if I had to pick a
1:23.8	high last night I went to a launch event for the third American Royals book,
1:30.4	which is called Rivals and it comes out on May 31st and we actually did both
1:36.4	book one and book two is Book Club picks for the podcast. It's one of my favorite
1:39.9	series. It's basically like the premises. What if the United States had a
1:46.3	monarchy? So like what if George Washington had become the first king rather
1:49.5	than the first president? And it's just like really fun and escapist. But yeah, I
1:53.4	went to the launch event for the third book last night. I've gotten really
1:56.6	friendly with the author through this podcast and so it was great to see her.
1:59.6	It was great to like have an IRL book event. And it was also at Stony Clover
2:05.6	Lane, which I had never been to the store before in New York and it is, it's
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