You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty Book Club

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

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

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🗓️ 31 August 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

So excited to discuss our August book club pick: You Made A Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi. This lush romantic drama sparked a lot of conversation in our Facebook Group, and we share our differing feelings about the book as well! We also discuss why we think this book was so divisive, our thoughts on the characters' chemistry, how the theme of grief is explored, and what we thought about the ending.

In this conversation we bring up author Akwaeke Emezi’s interview with Elle, and To Be Black and Loved’s You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty review!

Obsessions

Olivia: Cowboy boots

Becca: New desk setup - Wireless Keyboard, Laptop Stand, Magic Trackpad

What we read this week!

Olivia:

All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers

We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

Becca:

Seoulmates by Susan Lee (out 9/20)

If You Could See The Sun by Ann Liang (out 10/11)

Now Is Not The Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson (out 11/8)

September Book Club Pick: Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, welcome back to Bad on Paper podcast. I'm Becca Freeman.
0:21.2	And I'm Olivia Mentor.
0:22.7	And today is our August Book Club. We're discussing you made a fool of death with your beauty by a quick and busy.
0:29.5	And I'm very excited because I know this book has been pretty controversial in our Facebook group.
0:36.5	And I also just learned that I think Olivia and I have some very dissonant opinions on it as well.
0:43.6	Yeah, I think this is a great book to discuss and I'm really excited to talk about it.
0:50.1	Well, before we get into it, tell me you're high.
0:53.2	My high is I continued work on a new writing project that I'm diving into this fall. I can't share that much.
1:01.2	I will in the future, but I'm really excited and just has felt so good to be back in my 7am to 9am writing routine.
1:08.7	Like it's just been, I'm just so, so excited about it and I feel really creatively. I don't know, stimuli.
1:15.5	Oh, that's amazing. That's such a good feeling. Like the beginning of a project feeling where everything is fresh and new and you're energized.
1:22.8	Yeah, I'm not miserable yet. So I'm going to ride this high as long as I can.
1:26.6	But to be clear for listeners, you're still working on your book too, right?
1:31.9	Yes. So I have multiple things that I'm juggling right now, all of which are very exciting and at different stages.
1:38.2	And again, I'll share more eventually. I don't want to bore people, but I'm really loving where everything is headed right now.
1:44.2	So I feel really grateful. What is your high?
1:47.3	So my high is that I closed out my time in Maine. We had a girls weekend with four of my girlfriends from college plus me.
1:54.7	And it was just really great. We went to my favorite restaurant in that part of Maine, which is in Augusta. It's called State Lunch.
2:01.5	The food is so good. They have a rotating cocktail menu that always has a different theme.
2:07.1	So one time all of the cocktails were Nicholas Cage themed. This time they were Prince themed.
2:12.4	Oh my gosh. That's my dream. That sounds incredible.
2:15.6	Very fun. We went to a lake beach. I had never been to a lake beach before, but I was feeling very every summer after vibes being at a lake beach.
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