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Bad On Paper

Ghosts Book Club

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.84.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This week we finally get to discuss our November Book Club pick, Ghosts by Dolly Alderton. This book captured modern dating in a way we haven't seen before, and honestly, we can't agree on if the ending was satisfying or not. Ghosts follows Nina Dean, a London woman in her early thirties with a successful career as a food writer and loving friends and family. When she downloads a dating app, she meets a great guy on her first date. When Max tells Nina he's going to marry her on date one, it feels like all is going to plan. But when Max ghosts her, Nina is forced to deal with everything she's been trying so hard to ignore.

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Crate and Barrel Sofa

 

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What we read this week

Fake by Erica Katz (out Feb 22)

So, This is Christmas by Tracy Andreen

State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, welcome back to that on Paper Podcast. I'm Becca Freeman and I'm Grace

0:21.0

Adled. I am so excited about today's book club. We are talking about ghosts by Dali

0:26.8

Alderton. Grace, I don't think I've ever written down so many notes for a book before.

0:31.6

Yeah, there was a lot. I feel like there's just so much to talk about between the friendships,

0:36.7

the romantic relationship, Nina as a character. There's just, I feel like there's a lot to

0:42.1

say and this book made me have a lot of feelings. I still, I write it twice. I still don't

0:46.5

know how I feel about it, but I got a lot to unpack. Oh, I loved it. Should we do some

0:52.2

highs and lows before we get into the book talk? Yes. What was your high? My high this week

0:57.1

was I was just in LA. I literally just got back last night, so I'm coming in hot, but

1:02.2

I um, surprise Jeff with a little mini like vacate, I guess vacation for me, staycation

1:08.1

for him at Shudders, which is the most magical place in the world. We had, it looked incredible.

1:14.5

We had the best time. Like it feel, it feels, it felt almost like being on Cape Cod. He

1:19.7

was so surprised and we just had the greatest time. Like we got massages, we drank wine,

1:25.6

we ate a seafood tower, we went for walks on the beach, we got room service. Like we,

1:31.7

we went out to two nice meals, one just us and one with a bunch of his friends. Um, and

1:36.6

then the last night we went and had dinner with his family, but it was just a great little

1:41.5

birthday celebration and I had so much fun. Oh, that's so great. Yeah. Yeah. It looked

1:47.7

incredible. I have never stayed there or been there, but it looked, the hotel looked so

1:52.3

great, like the property. I highly recommend it. It's just beautiful. Like we had an ocean

1:57.8

view room, so like we'd leave the doors open at night to sleep and just hear the waves.

2:02.9

It was, oh, I love that. Yeah, it was a real treat. Oh, that's so nice. Yeah. What about

2:09.5

you? I'm a few. I mean, my couch got delivered last week. It fit inside like barely the

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