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🗓️ 17 July 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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This week, we’re talking about the books that changed our lives, and playing voicemails from listeners about their life-changing reads!
Listener life-changing books
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Christina Lauren
Becca’s life-changing books
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
The Rules of Inheritance by Claire Bidwell Smith
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan
The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
The Idea of You by Robinne Lee
Olivia’s life-changing books
Maybe You Should Talk To Someone by Lori Gottlieb
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman
Talking At Night by Claire Daverley
Long Bright River by Liz Moore
Obsessions
Olivia: “Tough” by Lana del Rey and Quavo
Becca: La Roche Posay B5 Serum
This Month’s Book Club Pick - Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at [email protected])
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0:00.0 | You're going to go. Hi everyone and welcome to about on paper podcast I'm Olivia Mentor and |
0:21.1 | I'm Becca Freeman and today we're talking about the books that |
0:24.4 | have changed our lives the books that have changed your lives and it's going to be a nice |
0:29.7 | feel-good episode of book recommendations. I'm really excited. I have loved seeing the voicemails come in for this. I feel like we've talked a lot about, you know, formative childhood reading experiences and that's some of what people talked about but I think this is also more |
0:44.4 | expansive in terms of the books that have really stuck with people or change the way they think or that they go back to again and again. |
0:53.5 | I'm really excited to read some of the books that I had not heard of |
0:58.2 | that people recommended and I'm also excited to tell you mine. |
1:01.0 | I'm excited to hear them. G to find my list that I made. Where is this? |
1:07.3 | Well, tell me your high. Okay, so my high is that it's almost time for me to go to Maine. |
1:17.0 | It's almost that time. |
1:19.0 | I feel like I'm just a little gallivant and gallivanter this summer. |
1:25.0 | But summer in New York is hard. It sucks. It's hot. |
1:29.0 | Steamy. |
1:31.0 | Smelly. |
1:32.0 | Yeah, it has come time for me to take my my main |
1:37.2 | reprieve so when this goes live I'm going up imminently and I'm so excited. |
1:43.8 | You look very ready. |
1:45.1 | You're tan, you're wearing colorful dress, |
1:47.4 | a colorful necklace, your hair is sort of like, |
1:49.5 | it looks sort of like ocean waves. Yeah, it's not drying as bad as I might have expected it too frankly I came on this with wet |
1:57.4 | hair and I was really like Olivia's just gonna see my hair go from like plaster to my head to huge in this humidity but it's so far it's fine. |
2:05.5 | It looks great. Well I'm excited for you. It just sounds like it's going to be the |
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