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As the year comes to a close, we want to look back at the good stuff and discuss our best of 2023! We dive into our personal best moments and talk about some of our favorite things from this year!    Best Entertainment  Best TV Show Becca - The Diplomat Olivia - Shrinking  Best Movie Becca - Barbie Olivia - Past Lives  Best (New to us) Podcast Becc - Writer’s Routine, Publishing Rodeo Olivia - Writer’s Routine Best Concert Olivia - The Eras Tour, Noah Kahan  Best Album Becca - You’ll Get It When You’re Older by Blake Rose Olivia - Stick Season (We’ll All Be Here Forever), Noah Kahan  Best Song Becca - Is It Over Now by Taylor Swift; That Was Then by Emily James; Call Your Mom by Noah Kahan w/ Lizzy McAlpine Olivia - The View Between Villages, Noah Kahan,  Not Strong Enough by BoyGenius, Labour by Paris Paloma Best (New to us) IG follow Becca - @Famouspplreading  Olivia - @Oh_apostrophe Best BOP episode Becca - Obscure Erotica Book Reviews, How Becca’s Book Got Made Olivia -Obscure Erotica Book Reviews, The Christmas Orphans Club Book Club, Spooky Season Reads with Ashley Winstead, The Official BOP Beach Read Roundup Shopping Best clothing purchase Becca - Birkenstock Boston Clogs, Jeans that came in my Stitch Fix order Olivia - Skims Fits Everybody T-Shirt Bra  Best beauty purchase Becca - Rare Beauty Liquid Blush in Grace, R+Co Trophy Texture and Shine Spray Olivia -  Winky Lux PH Changing Lip Balm OR Sol de Janeiro Brazillian Crush Body Spray Best home purchase Becca - Garlic chopper Olivia - ShopVac  Best misc purchase Becca - Five-year journal Olivia - Boll & Branch bedding   Obsessions Olivia - Harney & Sons Pumpkin Spice Tea Becca - Prismacolor 05 and Pigma Graphic 1 Pens   What we read this week! Becca - Story Genius by Lisa Cron Olivia - Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll   Sponsors Prose - Take your FREE in-depth hair consultation and get 50% off your first subscription order today PLUS 15% off and free shipping for every subscription order after that at Prose.com/bop Cozy Earth - Head to cozyearth.com and use code BOP to get 35% off sitewide.  Macmillan - Read or Listen to What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshal and All The Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham and other Macmillan titles wherever books and audiobooks are sold.    Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!  Subscribe to Olivia’s Newsletter! Preorder Becca’s Book!  Like and subscribe to RomComPods and Bone Marry Bury! Available wherever you listen to podcasts.  Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Olivia on Instagram @oliviamuenter and Becca @beccamfreeman.  

  This week, we’re diving into Becca’s Book, The Christmas Orphans Club! This is the ONLY time we’ll be spoiling this book for a while, so if you haven’t read the book yet and don’t want to get spoiled, save this episode for when you finish the book!    We talk about what elements of the book were there since Becca’s first draft, the highs and lows of their writing process, how she balanced the lighthearted tone with big emotions, and what book-related questions she wished she got asked more. Becca also answers listener questions about characters, story choices, and more!    Obsessions Becca - Dorsey tennis necklace Olivia - Flameless candles   What we read this week Olivia - Talking at Night by Claire Daverley Becca - Lovelight Farms by BK Borison   Sponsors Better Help - Visit BetterHelp.com/BADONPAPER today to get 10% off your first month. Macmillan -  listen to your favorite Macmillan titles like Minka Kelly’s memoir Tell Me Everything and John Stamos’ memoir If You Would Have Told Me wherever books and audiobooks are sold.    Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!  Subscribe to Olivia’s Newsletter! Preorder Becca’s Book!  Like and subscribe to RomComPods and Bone Marry Bury! Available wherever you listen to podcasts.  Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Olivia on Instagram @oliviamuenter and Becca @beccamfreeman.  

Happy gift guide season! This week we’re talking all things gifts with Sarah of @my.sister.made.me.buy.it, an account full of fashion, undergarment, blanket, travel, and pen recommendations. We share gift ideas for BFFs, Co-Workers, Significant Others, Tweens, People who have everything, and what we’d gift ourselves!    Our Picks: BFF - Rainbow Splash Cups from Coming Soon, Fancy Friend Dates, Colorful/fancy matches + match strikers Co-worker/casual acquaintance - 5 $1 scratch-off tickets + Le Pens, Kaweco pens, Inside Joke merch + DIY work kit. Significant other/spouse - Concert/Comedy tickets, Framed objects from Framebridge, Flaviar Whiskey Advent Calendar The Person Who Has Everything - Let’s Eat by Grossy Pelosi or More is More by Molly Baz,  Sweater Shaver, The Sleep Crown,  Stocking stuffer - Amazon hair clips, Tate’s Bake Shop Cookie Bark, Microstitch, Identity protection stamps Self - Missoma Jelly Heart Charm Bracelet, Bose Quiet Comfort Headphones, Dorsey Clemence Necklace Tween Gifts - Drunk Elephant and Glow Recipe skincare, water bottles.  Bookish Gifts - Lechtrum 5-Year Journal, Papier Reading Journal, The Cock Mark    Olivia’s High Lauren Scott’s CEOverthinker Substack post   Obsessions Becca - Peppermint mocha creamer season Olivia - J. Crew Cashmere Sweater   What we read this week! Becca - Maybe Once, Maybe Twice by Allison Rose Greenberg   This Month’s Book Club Pick - The Christmas Orphans Club by Becca Freeman (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at badonpaperpodcast@gmail.com)   Sponsors Cozy Earth - Get 35% off sitewide when you use the code “BOP” at cozyearth.com Macmillan Audio - listen to your favorite Macmillan titles like Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? by Crystal Smith Paul and the Finlay Donovan series by Elle Cosimano wherever books and audiobooks are sold.    Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!  Subscribe to Olivia’s Newsletter! Preorder Becca’s Book!  Like and subscribe to RomComPods and Bone Marry Bury! Available wherever you listen to podcasts.  Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Olivia on Instagram @oliviamuenter and Becca @beccamfreeman.  

Lotion! Books! Earplugs! Dried-up contact lenses! This week, we’re talking about our nightstand essentials from the things that improve our nighttime routine to the things that are just weird.    Olivia’s Nightstand: Weleda Skin Food, Aquaphor stick, books (currently: Rooms of Our Own by Louise Pennington, Talking at Night by Claire Daverley, The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue), Necessaire Body Serum, a pile of dried contacts, glasses, claw clip graveyard, water bottle graveyard.     Becca’s Nightstand: Gold Bond Crepe Corrector, Ring Dish from West Elm, Retainers, Tatcha Lip Mask, Laneige Lip Mask, Goop Night Cream (discontinued), Ear Plugs, Diptyque Rose Candle, Ahava baby eczema cream, Amazon Alarm Clock, Amazon sleep mask, Globe bedside sconce (old/unavailable), Princess flashlight.   Listener Nightstand essentials include reading lights, mouth tape, micellar water, Stanley water bottle, Lush Sleepy Lotion,  Eye Bra Eye Masks, Tempur-Pedic Sleep Masks,  Amazon Smart Plugs & Echo, Dr. Teals Foot Cream   Obsessions Becca - @famouspplreading, Iron Flame TikTok Olivia - Escaping Twin Flames Docuseries   What we read this week! Becca - Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros Olivia - All Sinners Bleed by SA Cosby, My Murder by Katie Wiliams   This Month’s Book Club Pick - The Christmas Orphans Club by Becca Freeman (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at badonpaperpodcast@gmail.com)   Sponsors Prose - Get 50% off your first subscription order today plus 15% off and free shipping for every subscription order after that at Prose.com/bop Better Help -  Visit BetterHelp.com/BADONPAPER today to get 10% off your first month   Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!  Subscribe to Olivia’s Newsletter! Preorder Becca’s Book!  Like and subscribe to RomComPods and Bone Marry Bury! Available wherever you listen to podcasts.  Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Olivia on Instagram @oliviamuenter and Becca @beccamfreeman.  

Time for a fun batch of Things! Three from each of us, to be exact.    Olivia’s Things What are your holiday vibes for 2023? Opinions on New Year’s Eve as a Holiday Is long hair cheugy now?   Becca’s Things Becca’s new favorite kitchen tool - a garlic-chopper The Woman in Me by Britney Spears What are your glimmers?   Obsessions Olivia - Geneva! Becca - Knitting   What we read this week! Olivia: You Shouldn’t Have Come Here by Jeneva Rose  B: 1,000 Words by Jami Attenberg (out 1/9); The Woman in Me by Britney Spears   This Month’s Book Club Pick -  The Christmas Orphans Club by Becca Freeman  (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at badonpaperpodcast@gmail.com)   Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more! Or join our Geneva! Subscribe to Olivia’s Newsletter! Preorder Becca’s Book!  Like and subscribe to RomComPods and Bone Marry Bury! Available wherever you listen to podcasts.  Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Olivia on Instagram @oliviamuenter and Becca @beccamfreeman.  

To celebrate the start of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) we’re chatting with Carly Watters, SVP and Senior Literary Agent at P.S Literary and co-host of The Shit No One Tells You About Writing Podcast!   We ask Carly about trends in fiction, how to know when a manuscript is ready, how book deals are made, if it actually is harder than ever to sell a book right now, and more!    Books about writing Carly recommends  On Writing by Stephen King   Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses   Obsessions Olivia - Tayvis (Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce) Becca -  A Thing or Two’s October 9 Episode: Rats, Rain Clogs, and Romance, Birkenstock Boston Clogs    What we read this week Olivia - The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff  Becca - Do Your Worst by Rosie Danan (out 11/14)   This Month’s Book Club Pick - The Christmas Orphans Club by Becca Freeman (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at badonpaperpodcast@gmail.com)   Sponsors Prose - Take your FREE in-depth hair consultation and get 15% off your first order today at  Prose.com/bop.  Cozy Earth - Get up to 35% off site-wide when you use the code “BOP” at cozyearth.com   Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!  Subscribe to Olivia’s Newsletter! Preorder Becca’s Book!  Like and subscribe to RomComPods and Bone Marry Bury! Available wherever you listen to podcasts.  Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Olivia on Instagram @oliviamuenter and Becca @beccamfreeman.  

This week we’re talking about our October Book Club Pick, The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon! We talk about Becca’s expectations of the book vs what her thoughts were reading, our thoughts on the second person narration, how the book centered the women in this story, if the ending surprised and satisfied us, and more!    Trigger warning for sexual assault in this book, so please skip it if you’re not in a place to listen!    Obsessions Becca - Jessica Yellin’s newsletter; Under the Desk News Olivia - Past Lives    What we read this week! Becca - Witch of Wild Things by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Throwback by Maurene Goo, The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon   November’s Book Club Pick - The Christmas Orphans Club by Becca Freeman (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at badonpaperpodcast@gmail.com)   Sponsors Nuuly - Take $20 off your first month of Nuuly when you sign up with the code BOP20 at nuuly.com.  Prose - Go to Prose.com/BOP for your FREE in-depth hair consultation and 15% off. Better Help - Visit BetterHelp.com/BADONPAPER today to get 10% off your first month.   Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!  Subscribe to Olivia’s Newsletter! Preorder Becca’s Book!  Like and subscribe to RomComPods and Bone Marry Bury! Available wherever you listen to podcasts.  Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Olivia on Instagram @oliviamuenter and Becca @beccamfreeman.

This week we’re diving into spooky season with a fellow fall fanatic, Ashley Winstead! We talk about her newest book Midnight Is the Darkest Hour, our enthusiasm for fall, 12-foot skeletons, and we all share some Halloween-season book recs!   Psychological Thriller Book Recs Olivia - None Of This Is True by Lisa Jewell Ashley - If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio, Bad Habits by Amy Gentry    Books Too scary to read with the lights out Ashley - Delicate Condition by Danielle Valentine Olivia - Leave The World Behind by Rumaan Alam      Cozy but Still Autumnal Books Ashley - The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna, The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling, Go Hex Yourself by Jessica Clare, Payback's a Witch by Lana Harper, Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman, Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen,  Becca - A Million Junes by Emily Henry, The Cloisters by Katy Hays   Wildcard Fall Reads Olivia - Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Ashley - Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas, Savage Appetites: True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession by Rachel Monroe Becca - Witch of Wild Things by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Playing the Witch Card by Kj Dell'antonia, A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness    Obsessions Becca - Blake Rose’s Album You’ll Get it When You’re Older  Olivia - New York Times White Chicken Chili   What we read this week! Becca - The Burnout by Sophie Kinsella   This Month’s Book Club Pick -  The Quiet Tenant by Clemence Michallon (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at badonpaperpodcast@gmail.com)   Sponsors Cozy Earth - Take 35% off at cozyearth.com with code BOP StitchFix - Get 25% off when you keep everything in your Fix at StitchFix.com/BOP Betterhelp - Visit BetterHelp.com/BADONPAPER today to get 10% off your first month.   Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!  Subscribe to Olivia’s Newsletter! Preorder Becca’s Book!  Like and subscribe to RomComPods and Bone Marry Bury! Available wherever you listen to podcasts.  Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Olivia on Instagram @oliviamuenter and Becca @beccamfreeman.  

This week, we’re answering your questions about Q4 goals, fall checklists, Olivia’s house updates, TCOC tiny tongs enthusiasts, writing advice, Starbucks orders and SO! MUCH! MORE!    Our favorite back catalog episodes  Our Goals episodes (check out our 2023 goals and our 2023 goals check-in!) Summer Reading Roundups! Olivia’s First Episode  Pre Olivia: Elizabeth Gilbert Episode  Hidden Gem Books (With Listener Recs!)    Obsessions Olivia: Hyperfixation lunch  Becca: Champers Social Club on Crosby St in SoHo   What we read this week! Becca: Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle (out March 5) Olivia: Go As A River by Shelly Read (learn more about her story on the Writers on Writing Podcast!)   This Month’s Book Club Pick - The Quiet Tenant by Clemence Michallon (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at badonpaperpodcast@gmail.com)   Sponsors Nuuly - Take $20 off your first month of Nuuly when you sign up at nuuly.com with the code BOP20. The Christmas Orphans Club - Pick up The Christmas Orphans Club by Becca Freeman wherever good books are sold!  Prose - Take your FREE in-depth hair consultation and get 15% off your first order today at prose.com/bop.   Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!  Subscribe to Olivia’s Newsletter! Preorder Becca’s Book!  Like and subscribe to RomComPods and Bone Marry Bury! Available wherever you listen to podcasts.  Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Olivia on Instagram @oliviamuenter and Becca @beccamfreeman.  

It’s Three Things time! This week we’re talking about the Instagram ads that haunt us, Lauren Groff’s writing process, being a teenage girl, and more!    Becca’s 3 Things Instagram ads that haunt us Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts and the grown-up teen girl phenomenon  Retellings in fiction    Olivia’s 3 Things Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift The New York Times’s profile of Lauren Groff  The New York Times’s article about being 13 today    Obsessions Olivia: Shit That I Knit Crew Neck Sweater Becca: Love at First Sight on Netflix (based on the book by Jennifer E. Smith)   What we read this week! Becca: Meet the Benedettos by Katie Cotungo (out 12/5) Olivia: Georgie, All Along: An Uplifting and Unforgettable Love Story Kate Clayborn, The Only One Left by Riley Sager, Yellowface by RF Kuang, Bye, Baby by Carola Lovering (out March 2024)   This Month’s Book Club Pick -  The Quiet Tenant by Clemence Michallon (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at badonpaperpodcast@gmail.com)   Sponsors Cozy Earth - Take 35% off sitewide at cozyearth.com when you use the code BOP Prose - Take your FREE in-depth hair consultation and get 15% off your first order at Prose.com/bop Better Help - Visit BetterHelp.com/BADONPAPER to get 10% off your first month!    Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!  Subscribe to Olivia’s Newsletter! Preorder Becca’s Book!  Like and subscribe to RomComPods and Bone Marry Bury! Available wherever you listen to podcasts.  Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Olivia on Instagram @oliviamuenter and Becca @beccamfreeman.