All Fours Book Club

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

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🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

It’s the moment we’ve been waiting for, our All Fours by Miranda July Book Club! There’s been a lot of discussion about the book in our Facebook and Geneva groups, and we’re so pumped to dive in!

We shared our expectations for the book before we read it, why we thought it was so polarizing, the themes of aging and menopause, how we related to the main character, and what we thought about how the story wrapped up.

Obsessions

Becca: Everlane Box Cut Tee

Olivia: Lizzie McAlpine’s cover of A Little Bit of Everything

What we read this week

Olivia: All Fours by Miranda July, All The Colors of The Dark by Chris Whitaker

Becca: All Fours by Miranda July, Maine Characters by Hannah Orenstein, Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors

This Month’s Book Club Pick - Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at [email protected])

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're going to go. Hi everyone and welcome to Battle Paper Podcast, I'm Olivia Mentor and I'm Becca Freeman and today we have a book club for a book I've never seen talked about more in the bound on paper book club Geneva chat lots of opinions abound and that is that all fours by Miranda July. I'm excited to talk about it.
0:34.4	I've been looking forward to this. I mean since I started the book I've been looking
0:38.0	forward to this for two weeks. There's so much. But first tell me your high.
0:44.0	Oh, my high is that I was on a quick little trip
0:46.8	to Chicago this weekend. I didn't post on Instagram
0:50.0	about it really. I was just kind of living in the moment but I went to Chicago for my
0:53.8	friend Sarah's 40th birthday party she's a friend who lives in New York but she's
0:58.3	from Chicago and so almost had the vibes of like a co-ed bachelorette party.
1:04.0	Like there were a bunch of fun dinners and like going out we play pickleball,
1:09.3	there was a barbecue.
1:11.0	Yeah it was great.
1:11.8	So it was fun to go to Chicago. It was like a little nice treat to stay at a
1:17.1	hotel by myself for the weekend where I didn't have any responsibilities or like chores or
1:21.6	housework to do.
1:22.7	And then yesterday on Sunday, I got to have lunch
1:25.4	with one of my very best friends from college
1:27.1	who also lives in the suburbs in Chicago.
1:31.5	So it was just a nice little weekend and the weather was perfect. I wouldn't say that it was very much about like exploring Chicago. It just like happened to be there. Yeah, it was a fun weekend. That sounds great. All your favorite things. Right. What about you? I am in Charleston
1:46.1	visiting my parents, my brother is here too. And I had a book event in North Carolina on
1:52.1	Thursday and then we came here and I will get to this
1:55.4	in the below but I'm just feeling so burnt out like emotionally mentally just I'm having
2:00.7	a struggle of a time with my mental health.
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