Project Hail Mary Book Club
Bad On Paper
Becca Freeman
4.9 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Hi space nuts! It's time to discuss our April book club pick: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. This book is Olivia’s most-recommended read, and Becca (to her surprise) loved the book, too! In this week’s ep we discuss how we picture Rocky, if we’d ever go to space, and listen to your voicemails about your thoughts on the book. We also have a space food taste test live on the pod to fully get ourselves into the theme!
Obsessions
Olivia: Athleta Cabo Linen Wide Leg Pant
Becca: Athleta Salutation Stash Pocket Tight
What we read this week:
Becca:
The Roughest Draft by Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
How to Fake It in Hollywood by Ava Wilder (Out June 14)
Olivia:
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J Maas
The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth
The School For Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
May’s Book Club Pick: Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello fellow space nets. Welcome back to a very space themed episode of Bat on Paper |
| 0:23.4 | Podcast. I'm Becca Freeman and I'm Olivia Mentor. |
| 0:27.7 | And today we are talking about our April Book Club pick which is Project Hail Mary by Andy |
| 0:32.7 | Weir. And Olivia, I gotta tell ya, I got really into this. |
| 0:40.2 | Really, I'm actually very nervous because I saw that you posted that you had started |
| 0:44.6 | it and you liked it and then I haven't heard anything. So I was like, this is either |
| 0:47.9 | gonna crush me or surprise me but I'm very curious to hear your thoughts. |
| 0:52.6 | You didn't hear anything because I read the whole book in two days. |
| 0:56.8 | That's great. That's the way it's meant to be enjoyed I think. |
| 1:00.2 | Well before we get into the book club discussion, this episode is sponsored by Knight, the |
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| 1:14.9 | Let's do some highs and lows. Please tell me you're high. I almost wish we had a whole |
| 1:21.4 | episode to discuss this. Oh gosh. So my high is Jake and I's trip to Italy for our first |
| 1:29.0 | wedding anniversary. It was this past week. We went for seven days. We were in Florence |
| 1:35.4 | and then we spent a couple days in Tuscany and I'm probably butchering this pronunciation |
| 1:41.3 | but I think it's called Umbria or anyway the country and it was wonderful and just magical |
| 1:48.9 | and it was really like a splurge like dream vacation for us and it was kind of like a |
| 1:55.4 | makeup trip for our honeymoon that we planned twice and both times either was canceled |
| 2:01.8 | or went very wrong initially. So it was just it felt like a long time coming in a lot |
| 2:08.1 | of ways and it was it was great. It looked stunning. So I booked a trip to Paris and I booked |
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