When We Were Bright And Beautiful Book Club

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

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

4.9 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re discussing our October Book Club Pick: When We Were Bright and Beautiful by Jillian Medoff. We talk about the theories we had while reading this book, what we did and didn’t like, our thoughts on the ending, and play two calls from listeners sharing their thoughts.

Content Warning: In this episode, we discuss the book's plotlines surrounding sexual assault & pedophilia, so if these themes may be upsetting to you, please take care and skip this episode and join us next week.

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Olivia: Maintenance Phase

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What we read this week!

Becca: When We Were Bright and Beautiful by Jillian Medoff, The ARC by Tory Henwood Hoen

Olivia: The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney

November’s Book Club Pick: The Cloisters by Katy Hays

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and welcome to Baton Paper Podcast. I am Olivia Mentor and I'm back at Freeman.
0:23.5	Today we are talking about our October Book Club pick when we are bright and beautiful
0:27.9	which was probably the most divisive book I think we've ever picked.
0:33.9	I think so. I think that this beats you made a fool of death with your beauty on the split scale.
0:39.9	Yeah, so we're going to get into all of it. There's certainly a lot to unpack.
0:43.9	But before we get there, let's talk about some highs and lows.
0:47.9	Yeah, tell me you're high.
0:49.9	My high is discovering the world of adult coloring books.
0:54.9	I think I've mentioned this before briefly maybe.
0:57.9	Yeah, I've heard about it but I'd like to hear more about how it's made its way into your high which is...
1:03.9	Yeah, that's a big distinction.
1:06.9	It is. I mean, I didn't have a lot of other things to choose from. It was just what came to mind immediately maybe.
1:11.9	Every night after dinner we've been turning on a podcast and like lighting some candles and then we do the little coloring book Jake and I together.
1:18.9	This sounds so ridiculous by the way.
1:20.9	Do you do the same page together?
1:22.9	No, you're on. No, each have our own.
1:24.9	Oh, it's going to say that is...
1:25.9	We have very different strategies. Very different strategies.
1:27.9	I was going to say that is like a sign of a great relationship if you could do a coloring book page together without getting a fight.
1:34.9	Or just like very disturbingly co-dependent one or the other.
1:38.9	But anyway, it is just the most soothing thing.
1:42.9	It's like a very nice way to turn your brain off in the way that watching TV does without looking at a screen.
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