Hi, everyone and welcome to Bad on Paper podcast. I'm Olivia Mentor. And I'm Becca Freeman. And today we have our March Book Club episode. We are talking about so old, so young by Grant Ginder. I'm so excited to hear what you thought about this book. But before we do that, let's hit some highs and lows. Tell me your high from this week. Well, it hasn't been that long

since we last talked, but I do have a high. And we recorded on Friday. I was in Portland. I had

woken up there after an event. My birthday was on Saturday. And I fully planned after we recorded,

it was about noon or so. I was like, I'm just going to get in the car, drive home. And then I remembered as I was driving that there's this bookstore in Kenne Bunkport that I really liked, but it was closed the last time I was there. So I was like, you know what, let's stop there. So I went in and they had my book, which was nice. And I treated myself to some books. I got myself a hat.

And then I was like, oh, well, I could stop here and here and here. And then I just kept doing that,

basically the whole drive home. Lovely. Yeah, it was so nice. I haven't done like a spontaneous

road trip, maybe ever. I am a big planner. I like to have a Google Doc with distances and directions

and how long it's going to take me to get from A to B. But I just kind of let myself do whatever I wanted

and I met some really cool people and bought some antiques and lots of books. And I listened to author interviews for most of the way back, too.

I listened to an interview with Barbara Kingsolver.

You had mentioned her in our conversation on Friday.

And I was like, I need to listen to more interviews with her.

So it was just truly a really, really nice day.

And then the next day was my birthday and we just kind of did

the same thing, but around here, we just went to a bunch of antique stores and looked for stuff

for our kitchen and got a new rug for upstairs for a really great price. And it was, yeah,

it was just a very, very low-key, very chill, boring birthday that ended up just with us sitting on the

couch watching TV and eating cake. And that was just what I needed. This sounds like the

perfect birthday for you. Thank you. Yeah, it was it was really, really good. So I'm feeling

happy to be 33. Now, how many books would you say you acquired on this

journey? I think I bought six. Oh. So I went to four bookstores and I got six books. Reasonable. Tell me more.

Shout out the bookstores and the books. So my event was at Bat Cove Books

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