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Bad On Paper

July 2025 Three Things

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

Skincare, Beauty, Society & Culture, Comedy, Advice, Books, Arts, Careers

4.94.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

It’s time for July Three Things! Tune in for a game, fantasy dinner parties, writing process dives, best books of the year (so far), Materialists thoughts, and more! 

 

Becca’s Things

Materialists

Hallmark Movie Game

Dream Summer Dinner Party 

 

Olivia’s Things

Materialists

Favorite Reads in 2025 so far (Becca’s includes One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune, Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall, Heart the Lover by Lily King. Olivia’s includes Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance by Allison Espach

Writing Process Evolutions

 

Obsessions

Becca - Old Navy tank tops

Olivia - Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance by Allison Espach

 

What we read this week

Becca - These Summer Storms by Sarah MacLean (out 7/8); Fun For the Whole Family by Jennifer E. Smith

Olivia - The Bombshell by Darrow Farr, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance by Allison Espach, It’s a Love Story by Annabel Monaghan, Dear Writer by Maggie Smith

 

This Month’s Book Club Pick - Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at [email protected])

 

Sponsors

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Caraway - take 10% off your next purchase at Carawayhome.com/BOP or use code BOP at checkout.

 

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Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Olivia on Instagram @oliviamuenter and Becca @beccamfreeman.

 

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, everyone. Welcome back to Bad on Paper podcast. I'm Becca Freeman. And I'm Olivia Mentor. And it's Three Things Week. What type of things have you brought today? What are the genres? I brought a game. I brought a fantasy question. And I brought a pop culture one, which I would not be surprised if we overlap on.

0:39.3

I think we probably do. I think I know what it is. I too brought a pop culture one, which is

0:44.0

probably the same thing. I brought a writing question and a reading question. Ooh,

0:48.9

oh, fun. I, yeah, I'm excited. Okay. Before we get into that, this episode is brought to you by a new book called Sunny Side Up by Katie Storino.

0:59.0

We'll tell you more about it later in the episode, but it's available right now wherever books are sold.

1:04.4

Okay, Olivia, before we get to all the fun things we packed in the picnic basket today, tell me your high.

1:12.8

My high is that I had such a nice reading week, a nice bookish week. We were just talking that it has been brutally hot in the

1:19.3

northeast all week just, I think it feels like temperature was 110 multiple days in a row. Neither

1:26.5

of us have central air conditioning.

1:28.6

So I've been getting in bed really early with my beloved strongest soldier of a window

1:35.2

unit and reading a lot.

1:38.1

And it's been so nice.

1:39.6

And also, I've been going to the library to work because it's very cold there.

1:44.2

I at home finished a five-star read, one of my favorite books.

1:49.7

I read Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance by Alison Esbach, who wrote The Wedding People.

1:54.5

I don't know if you've read this one, actually, Becca.

1:56.4

Have you?

1:56.9

I haven't, no.

1:57.6

I discovered her with the wedding people. Same. And I loved this one just as much,

2:06.6

if not more, than the wedding people. It was funny, heartfelt, moving, just the same vibe as the

2:14.4

wedding people in so many ways, but totally different. I'll talk more about it in books,

2:18.6

but like, oh, the joy of a five-star read. Just so good. Yeah, I'm excited to hear more about this,

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