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After a restorative break, we're back and ready to fill you in on what we were up to over the holidays! We talk about our high highs (Becca finishing the first draft of her book! Grace's Chappy Wrap collab dropping TODAY!) and low lows (Omicron anxiety). We also break down everything we read and watched during our time off! What Grace read over the break The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller Friends Like These by Kimberly McCreight The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro Just One Look by Lindsay Cameron *Grace's Top Recommendation! Too Late by Colleen Hoover In A New York Minute by Kate Spencer (out March 15!) The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen Our American Friend by Anna Pitoniak What Becca read for over the break Book Lovers by Emily Henry (out May 3!) Playing with Matches by Hannah Orenstein The Happily Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout Wish You Were Here by Jodie Picoult Golden Girl by Elin Hilderbrand What Becca watched over the break Harlem Queer Eye Season 6 Finding You The Long Shot What Grace watched over the break (and check out 2022 Oscars Best Picture Predictions!) The Great Station Eleven Silent Night The Last Duel Mass (content warning: school shootings) C'mon C'mon The Truffle Hunters The Lost Daughter Passing What we both watched Emily in Paris And Just Like That The Hating Game Don't Look Up Instagram Obsessions Grace: @socialclubofficiel Becca: @carolinagelen Obsessions Grace: Ella Ora Skin Therapy Clinic, Smythson Soho Cosmic Travel Diary Becca: Shop.app, J. Crew oversized cashmere wrap, Sim City BuildIt What We're Currently Reading Grace: Atomic Habits by James Clear, Everything We Didn't Say by Nicole Baart Becca: Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert (again!), Crave by Tracy Wolff Our January Bookclub Pick Wish You Were Here by Jodie Picoult Sponsors: Prose: go to prose.com/bop for your free in-depth hair consultation and 15% off your first order! Better Help: go to betterhelp.com/badonpaper for 10% off your first month Hello Fresh: go hellofresh.com/bop16 and use code bop16 for up to 16 free meals and 3 gifts! Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more! Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace's blog, The Stripe. New posts daily! Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

This week is our last episode of 2021 and we're covering holidays past and present! We talk about our favorite holiday memories, recipes, movies, books, gifting advice, what's on our wish list and more! We also talk about our thanksgivings, Grace's recovery from the cold from hell, and Becca finally being able to talk about her secret project! Our Holiday Gifting Recommendations Grace's Ornaments Rec Becca's Candle Rec Becca's Socks Rec Our Go-To Holiday Recipes Grace's Egg Nog Recipe Becca's Favorite Stuffing Recipe Becca's Favorite Anginetti Cookie Recipe Becca's Christmas List Ugg Ultra Minis Leatherology Laptop Bags Becca's Christmas Books One Day In December by Josie Silver Christmas at the Island Hotel by Jenny Colgan This Time Next Year Sophie Cousens So, This is Christmas by Tracy Andreen The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan Window Shopping by Tessa Bailey The Holiday Swap by Maggie Knox Obsessions Grace - Jill Stuart Beauty Jelly Eye Color Becca - eucalyptus shower spray What we read this week! If You Tell by Greg Olsen State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer Business Minded by Carly Riordan (Out December 28!) Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner (Out January 25!) In a New York Minute by Kate Spencer (Out March 15!) Sponsors: Hello Fresh - go to hellofresh.com/bop14 and use code BOP14 for up to 14 free meals and 3 free gifts! Prose - go to prose.com/BOP for 15% of your first order Better Help - Better Help - go to betterhelp.com/badonpaper for 10% off your first month Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more! Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace's blog, The Stripe. New posts daily! Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

We're finishing our end-of-year tradition of interviewing each other, and this time Grace is in the hot seat! Becca asks Grace your questions about the ins and outs of her job, if blogging has ever impacted her self-image, if she'd ever write a book, her favorite Charleston spots, long-distance relationship advice, if she got her driver's license yet, and so much more! Obsessions Grace - Beautypie's Gingerbread, Almond & Orange Blossom Candle Becca - Friday Night Lights, Pinhook Bourbon What we read this week! Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl If You Tell by Greg Olsen Fake by Erica Katz (out Feb 22!) In a New York Minute by Kate Spencer (Out March 15!) Sponsors: Uncommon Goods - go to uncommongoods.com/bop for 15% off your next gift Better Help - go to betterhelp.com/badonpaper for 10% off your first month ZocDoc - Zocdoc: go to zocdoc.com/bop to sign up for free and find a top-rated doctor Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more! Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace's blog, The Stripe. New posts daily! Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

This week we finally get to discuss our November Book Club pick, Ghosts by Dolly Alderton. This book captured modern dating in a way we haven't seen before, and honestly, we can't agree on if the ending was satisfying or not. Ghosts follows Nina Dean, a London woman in her early thirties with a successful career as a food writer and loving friends and family. When she downloads a dating app, she meets a great guy on her first date. When Max tells Nina he's going to marry her on date one, it feels like all is going to plan. But when Max ghosts her, Nina is forced to deal with everything she's been trying so hard to ignore. Obsessions ChappyWrap Blankets Crate and Barrel Sofa Instagram Obsessions @marthastewart48 What we read this week Fake by Erica Katz (out Feb 22) So, This is Christmas by Tracy Andreen State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell Sponsors Better Help - go to betterhelp.com/badonpaper for 10% off your first month Everlywell - Go to everlywell.com/bop for 20% off your at-home lab test Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more! Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace's blog, The Stripe. New posts daily! Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

We're so excited to continue our yearly tradition of interviewing each other, starting off with Grace interviewing Becca! (Grace will have her turn in the hot seat in a few weeks!) Grace asks Becca your questions about bookish things, her new creative projects, career reflections, dating & friendship advice, what she's learned about herself in the past year, and So! Much! More! Becca's Misc. Mentions: For Getting Started at Book Writing - Save the Cat writes a Novel Her GoodReads Account - Follow her here! Her Splurge Item - Sarah Flint Perfect Zip Bootie in Brown Her Favorite Sheets - Amazon Mellani Sheets Becca's Favorite Dinner Party Recipes Grossy's Vodka Sawce Garlic Braised Short Ribs Coq au Vin Obsessions Grace - Midnight Mass Becca - The Chunky Chef Zuppa Toscana What we read this week! Books To Preorder If This Gets Out by Cale Dietrich and Sophie Gonzales Smile and Look Pretty by Amanda Pellegrino Books You Can Read Now! Palm Beach by Mary Adkins We're Speaking by Hitha Palepu Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl You'll Be the Death of Me by Karen M. McManus November Book Club Pick: Ghosts by Dolly Alderton Sponsors: Night - use code BOP30 at discovernight.com for 30% off sitewide Better Help - go to betterhelp.com/badonpaper for 10% off your first mon ZocDoc - Zocdoc: go to zocdoc.com/bop to sign up for free and find a top-rated doctor Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more! Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace's blog, The Stripe. New posts daily! Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

It's been a big year of reading, and today we're talking about our favorite books from 2021! We each picked a top 5 and also had our listeners weigh in on the best books—from thrillers to romance to non-fiction to backlist—they read this year. If you're in search of book recs, look no further, we have the best of the best for you! Grace's Favorites - The Push by Ashley Audrain (Mystery/Thriller) - Good Night Beautiful by Aimee Mollloy (Mystery/Thriller) -Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (Fiction) -Midnight Library by Matt Haig (Fiction) -Untamed by Glennon Doyle (Non-Fiction) -Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee (Non-Fiction) -The Third Door by Alex Banayan (Non-Fiction) -Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert (Non-Fiction) -The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (Backlist) Becca's Favorites -The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Mystery/Thriller) -People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry (Romance) -Lizzie & Dante by Mary Bly (Romance) -Seven Days in June by Tia Williams (Romance) -The People We Keep by Allison Larkin (Fiction) -The Blue Bistro by Elin Hilderbrand (Backlist) Listener Reccomendations! -The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz (Mystery/Thriller) -Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger (Mystery/Thriller) -The Wife and The Widow by Christian White (Mystery/Thriller) -Olympus Texas by Stacey Swann (Fiction) -Anxious People by Fredrik Backman (Fiction) -Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans (Fiction) -Detransition Baby by Torrey Peters (Fiction) -We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride (Fiction) -Expecting Better by Emily Oster (Non-Fiction) -Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Non-Fiction) -Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (Non-Fiction) -Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell (Non-Fiction) -The Wreckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson (Non-Fiction) -Indistractable by Nir Eyal (Non-Fiction) -A Most Beautiful Thing by Arshay Cooper (Non-Fiction) -A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (Backlist) -Summer of 69 by Elin Hilderbrand (Backlist) Obsessions The Morning Show A Discovery of Witches What we Read this week! Ghosts by Dolly Alderton Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl Always, in December by Emily Stone If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzales and Cale Dietrich November Book Club Pick: Ghosts by Dolly Alderton Sponsors: Better Help - Go to betterhelp.com/badonpaper for 10% off your first month Everlywell - Go to everlywell.com/bop for 20% off your at-home lab test Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more! Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace's blog, The Stripe. New posts daily! Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

This week we interviewed Grace Bonney, founder of Design Sponge to talk about her new book, Collective Wisdom! We learn how she got to where she is today, what inspired her to write a book about women over 50, how she found the women featured in her book, and the interviews that had the greatest impact on her. We also talk about Design Sponge, how it felt to close it down on her terms, and her thoughts on going back to school as an adult! Follow Grace Bonney Instagram - @grace__bonney & @designsponge Collective Wisdom: Lessons, Inspiration, and Advice from Women over 50 Instagram Obsessions Grace - @designsponge Becca - @nanowrimo Obsessions Grace - Nest Pumpkin Chai Candle Becca - Aerie The Sweat Waffle Crew Neck Sweatshirt What we've read this week The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt Always, in December by Emily Stone November Book Club Pick: Ghosts by Dolly Alderton Sponsors: Night - Use the code NIGHTBOP for 20% off sitewide at discovernight.com Prose - Go to prose.com/BOP for your free in-depth hair quiz and 15% off your first order ZocDoc - Zocdoc: go to zocdoc.com/bop to sign up for free and find a top-rated doctor Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more! Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace's blog, The Stripe. New posts daily! Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

It's book club week and this month we're talking about A Special Place for Women by Laura Hankin. Capturing start-up culture can be a hit or miss, and we really think Laura Hankin got it right in this book. A Special Place for Women follows a daring reporter who infiltrates an exclusive female-run members club, whose members are far more powerful than she imagined. We also talk about not knowing what's next, Becca's Sweater status, and Grace's accidental trespassing adventure. Pick up A Special Place for Women Here Startup Books we Like: The Herd by Andrea Bartz Startup by Doree Shafrir One by One by Ruth Ware Ripped from the headlines book Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson Admission by Julie Buxbaum Our favorite witch books The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness The Practical Magic Series by Alice Hoffman Obsessions Grace - Stoney Clover Ln X American Girl, You Season 3, Succession Becca - Succession, The Big Leap What we've read this week Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling We're Speaking by Hitha Palepu November Book: Ghosts by Dolly Alderton Sponsors: Care Of - Go to takecareof.com and enter code BOP50 for 50% off your first order Better Help - Go to betterhelp.com/badonpaper for 10% off your first month Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more! Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace's blog, The Stripe. New posts daily! Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Since we both celebrated our birthdays recently, we thought it would be fun to spend today's episode reminiscing and looking forward. We reminisce on our most memorable birthdays as kids, have a very in-depth conversation about ice cream cake, and talk about how 40th birthday parties are the year to go ALL OUT. We also talk about aging and if/how milestone birthdays spark anxiety about getting older. Also, Grace recaps her Vienna trip, Becca talks about her trip upstate, and we mourn the loss of a champagne-soaked memory card. Instagram Obsessions @rianne.meijer @p_o_p_k_n_i_t @theknitedit Obsessions Becca - Ayr The Pop Jeans Grace - July Checked Trunk Suitcase What we've read Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt Wild at Heart by K.A. Tucker Ghosts by Dolly Alderton October Book: A Special Place for Women by Laura Hankin Sponsors: Night - use code NIGHTBOP for 20% off everything at discovernight.com Hello Fresh - go to hellofresh.com/bop14 and use code BOP14 for up to 14 free meals including free shipping! Better Help - go to betterhelp.com/badonpaper for 10% off your first month Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more! Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace's blog, The Stripe. New posts daily! Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

This week, we're chatting with our friend and standup comedian, Casey Basham! We talk about how we met, how she got into standup comedy, and how she adjusted to doing comedy in the pandemic! We also dive into her comedy about fertility, how people have received it, how it has become a cathartic outlet for her, and her special INCONCEIVABLE filming on October 26! We also talk about Grace's Vienna trip, Becca's sweater-knitting project, and everything we've been reading the past week! Follow Casey @casefaceb on Instagram The Shady Shit Podcast Inconceivable on October 26 at 7 pm at the Triad Theater Obsessions Becca - Knitting her Sweater! Grace - Yacht Rock Revue What we've read Goodnight Beautiful by Aimee Molloy Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier The Perfect Find by Tia Williams Wild at Heart by K.A. Tucker The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling October Book: A Special Place for Women by Laura Hankin Sponsors: Better Help - Go to betterhelp.com/badonpaper for 10% off your first month Olive & June - Go to oliveandjune.com/bop and use code BOP for 20% off your first manicure system Everlywell - Go to everlywell.com/bop for 20% off your at-home lab test Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more! Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace's blog, The Stripe. New posts daily! Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.