Wish You Were Here Book Club
Bad On Paper
Becca Freeman
4.8 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This week our Book Club is BACK and we're discussing Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult. This book deals with Covid-19, which you may or may not have the emotional capacity to read about right now. We totally understand if you could not join us for this book club.
Wish You Were Here follows Diana, a type-a art specialist who has her entire life planned out. She has been planning her dream trip to the Galapagos with her surgeon boyfriend. In March 2020, on the eve of their trip, New York City is bracing for the arrival of coronavirus. Her boyfriend can't take off work but encourages Diana to go alone. Except, when she gets there, she finds out that the island is closing for a 2-week quarantine. Diana makes an impulsive decision to stay, and her time on the island has her reevaluating her whole life back in New York.
Also discussed:
Jodi Picoult on First Draft With Sarah Enni
Obsessions
Grace: The Nori Press
Becca: Zeyar Pastel Highlighters
Instagram Obsessions
Grace: @cyrus.library
What we read this week!
Grace:
The Christie Affair by Nina De Gramont (Out February 1st!)
Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins
The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth
Becca:
Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin
Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
February Book Club Pick
Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, welcome back to Bad on Paper Podcasts. |
| 0:20.6 | I'm Grace Atwood and I'm Becca Freeman. |
| 0:23.2 | Today's Book Club. |
| 0:24.2 | It feels like so long since we've had a book club and I guess that's probably because |
| 0:28.5 | we took the break and this is our first book of the new year. |
| 0:31.7 | Well, I've been excited to talk about this all month, so I'm glad it's Book Club. |
| 0:36.1 | I'm so glad we did this as our book. |
| 0:38.4 | Me too. |
| 0:39.4 | But before we get into it, this episode is brought to you by night. |
| 0:42.3 | The makers of our all-time favorite pillow and our favorite silk face mask. |
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| 0:52.1 | Before we get into the book, should we do some quick highs and lows? |
| 0:55.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.1 | I mean, what if I said no, and I just decided to change the format for the week? |
| 1:00.2 | I don't know. |
| 1:01.2 | What would you do? |
| 1:02.2 | I mean, I guess that's your prerogative. |
| 1:03.2 | Would you be like, well, I have a high? |
| 1:05.7 | I don't feel like my highs are low or that higher low this week, so I feel like they're |
| 1:09.8 | mediums. |
| 1:10.8 | That's not true. |
| 1:11.8 | Mine are total mediums. |
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