October 2025 Three Things

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

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🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Time for another round of three things! And this one’s very bookish: we’re talking about 2025 books that flew under the radar, plot twists, mood writing, what we want to learn about this fall, and more!

Becca’s Things

Underrated Books of 2025 Becca’s - Any Trope But You by Victoria Lavine, Loved One by Aisha Muharrar | Olivia’s - Tilt by Emma Pattee, Finding Grace by Loretta Rothschild.

How moods shift in the writing process

Personal Curriculums

Olivia’s Things

Plot twists we didn’t see coming - The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden, Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Reflective Moods

Obsessions

Becca - “Man I Need” by Olivia Dean

Olivia - Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret

What we read this week

Olivia - Finding Grace by Loretta Rothschild, Maggie; Or A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar by Katie Yee, Sam by Allegra Goodman, A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst, Female Fantasy by Iman Hariri-Kia

Becca - The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy, Totally and Completely Fine by Elissa Sussman

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

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone and welcome to Bout on Paper Podcast. I'm Olivia Mentor.
0:21.6	And I'm Becca Freeman.
0:22.8	And today we have an October 3 Things episode for you.
0:26.7	Yeah, I'm excited.
0:27.6	I feel good about my things.
0:29.2	I'm excited to discuss with you.
0:31.1	Me too.
0:32.2	Well, first, tell me about your high.
0:34.9	My high is that last week I saw Death Becomes Her on Broadway, which I don't know why I waited
0:42.1	so long to see.
0:44.1	I don't know.
0:45.0	I had heard positive things, but didn't feel compelled.
0:50.0	And I had some friends in town last week, and they wanted to see a Broadway show, and we
0:54.0	went to see it.
0:55.3	And then we found out that one of the lead actresses was out that night, so we were getting an understudy.
1:01.6	And so I went in with kind of medium low expectations.
1:06.4	And by virtue of this being my high, you can tell that I was like so blown away. The musical was
1:13.0	so funny. I was like cracking up the whole time. It's, I mean, it's similar to the movie with
1:20.5	Meryl Streep. But it was so campy, so funny. The performances were so good. I adored it. That's great. I have never seen this movie.
1:32.1	Oh, you haven't? No, so I've heard of it, of course, but I don't know anything about it, but I'm so glad it was good.
1:38.2	I can imagine the understudy thing would be like, oh, but it says a lot that it was still so excellent.
1:43.9	Yeah, the movie's from 1992.
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