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Hosted ByGrace Atwood & Becca Freeman

Your new internet besties give you a weekly dose of books, banter, and folks you should be following. Join 30-something reading enthusiasts and real-life best friends Grace Atwood and Becca Freeman every month for a book club featuring a read they promise you won’t be able to put down. In between, they’re joined by guests for conversations on careers, dating, fashion, and more.


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Margo’s Got Money Troubles Book Club

It’s finally time to discuss our listener-chosen July Book Club Pick, Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe! We’re thrilled to dive into our overall thoughts, what genre we’d place this book in, how the book deepened our perspective about…

Grace Atwood’s Three Things: Peaches, Go-To Outfit Combos, and Introvert Hobbies

This week, forever friend of the pod stopped by to talk about her Three Things!   Grace’s Things Streaming audiobooks while needle-pointing All-white outfits with black accessories Liz Adams’   Grilled Peaches (that she had at )  …

Books That Changed Our Lives

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  Christina Lauren   Becca’s life-changing books …

Three Things w/ Emily Amick of Emily in Your Phone

This week, we’re chatting with lawyer, journalist, and political analyst Emily Amick, AKA ! We asked her about how to get engaged in your community, how to have conversations about social issues, what’s going on with young people, and her book…

July Three Things

Happy July! It’s time to share our Three Things for the month. We got summer reading memories, cultural phenomena, weird Facebook groups, and So! Much! More!    Becca’s Things Summer Reading (And our Summer Reading Memories)  Iconic…

Such a Bad Influence Book Club

It’s time to talk about our June Book Club Pick, Such A Bad Influence by our very own Olivia Muenter! We are finally diving into everything about this book including Olivia’s writing process, what planted the seed for the story, the evolution of…

2024 Goals Check In

Eek! It’s time to check in on our 2024 goals. Did we book that doctor’s appointment? Are we journaling more? Did we reduce our screen time? Keep listening to find out!   Obsessions Olivia – Becca –   What we read this week Olivia: …

June 2024 Three Things

Happy Three Things Day! We technically only have Five Things total this time, but we’re excited to dive into them all the same.     Becca’s Things Follow-up questions about Olivia’s Debut Week  The Song of the Summer (? ?…

Summer 2024 Reading Preview

  Summer is pretty much here, so we’re gathering bookish friends to talk about the books they’re excited to read this season!   Olivia’s books (June 4) (June 4)    Becca’s Books (September 3) v (September 24)   …

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