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Bad On Paper

Tom Lake Book Club

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

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

4.94.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

It’s time for the September book club and we’re discussing Tom Lake by Ann Patchett. We dive into our opinions on the writing, the mother/daughter dynamics, the reveals that surprised us, and the “Tom Lake” moments in our own lives.

Also, Becca’s book is out NOW!!!

Obsessions

Olivia: Her playlist called ‘Songs for Staring at the Ocean & Feeling emo’

Becca: @nymetroweather on IG

What we read this week!

Becca: The Nigerwife by Vanessa Walters

Olivia: The Quiet Tenant by Clemence Michallon, The Christmas Orphans Club by Becca Freeman, Tom Lake by Ann Patchett, Happiness Falls by Angie Kim

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

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi everyone and welcome to Baton Paper Podcast, I'm Olivia Mentor and I'm Becca Freeman.

0:23.4

And today is our September book club episode for Tom Lake by Ampatchit and this is a book

0:28.9

I think we both really loved so I'm excited to talk through it.

0:31.6

I think I loved it even more re-reading it.

0:36.1

My love for it is only growing.

0:37.6

Beautiful.

0:38.6

It's such a beautiful book.

0:40.0

I enjoyed it so much.

0:41.6

But before we get into that, this episode is brought to you by Newly.

0:44.3

We'll tell you more about it later in the episode, but you can take $20 off your first

0:48.3

month of Newly when you sign up with the code, B-O-P-20.

0:52.0

All right Olivia, let's get into some highs and lows.

0:55.6

What is your high?

0:57.0

My high is that I'm in the outer banks for like our annual family, two week vacation

1:02.3

here.

1:03.3

I've been actually working on copy edits, so like the last stages of my book, which has

1:09.7

been really nice in the morning, like as the sun rises over the ocean.

1:13.9

And then after lunch every day, I've been reading at the beach.

1:17.2

It's storming today, but it's been really beautiful weather until now.

1:20.8

And it's just been like a really nice combination of things.

1:24.1

Oh, also, I am on a hot reading streak.

1:26.9

I have loved so many books lately.

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