Hi, everyone and welcome to Bad on Paper podcast. I'm Olivia Mentor. And I'm Becca Freeman. And today we are talking about

hidden gem book recommendations. I am so excited about this. We did an episode like this back in 2021,

before you were a host. And it turned me on to all sorts of books that I had never heard of before.

So I'm excited to recommend books, but I'm also very excited to receive recommendations.

Me too, always.

Well, before we get into this, what is your high?

My high is that for the past week or so, it's been true windows slash door open season.

Gorgeous. I love having our front doors open. We have a screen door. It just lets this beautiful breeze through the house.

And it lets so much more light in. And there's only so many weeks a

year where this works. It's not too cold or too hot. And it's just been so nice to, you know,

let the house breathe. So I've been really enjoying that. Cross breeze season is upon us for one

week only. Yeah. We haven't actually gotten around to taking any of the storm windows off.

So there has been no windows open, actually.

I wrote on this windows open and doors open in the outline, but just doors.

But, you know, we'll take that.

It's going to be cold again next week.

Well, what's your high? I have a wealth of highs,

having a high week. So Grace's was in town on Monday and we got to have dinner, which was so fun.

And I love getting to talk to her about her process of writing her book. It's so fun for me to hear how she's feeling about it and where

she is and what she's thinking about. I just love it. So we had a dinner on Monday night and it was

just a really fun dinner, but then I was extra excited to get to hear all of her book updates.

And then I am going to Maine next week for a, we're going to call it a

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