This week, we're talking all about portfolio careers! We discuss the current iteration of our own careers and then chat with Leigh Stein and Ali LaBelle—two other professionals with portfolio careers—to break down the work they do, time management, and advice for people interested in transitioning to a portfolio career.

Obsessions

Becca - West End Girl

Olivia - Beth's Dead

What we read this week

Olivia - The Good Daughters by Brigitte Dale

Becca - The Book Witch by Meg Shaffer (Out April 7), Little One by Olivia Muenter (Out Feb 3)

This Month's Book Club Pick - The Correspondent by Virginia Evans (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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November Things are coming in HOT! Keep listening for podcast recs, supernatural talk, guessing games, and more!

Also, donate to your local foodbank! Find one local to you here.

Olivia's Things

Emma Straub's newsletter about David Harbor's pseudonym

Do you believe in ghosts?

1 new habit we like, 1 that we want to kick to the curb

Becca's Things

Current Podcast Listening Lineup (Olivia's is Book Gang, Pen Pals, Glamorous Trash) (Becca's are The Shit No One Tells You About Writing, Books, Beach, & Beyond, Open Book With Jenna, Otherppl with Brad Listi)

The most expensive liquids you can buy without a permit

Are you a pumpkin or an apple fall person?

Obsessions

Becca - Vince Coat from The Real Real

Olivia - Dancing With the Stars

What we read this week

Olivia - Sister Wife by Christine Wooley Brown

Becca - Finished Kiss of the Basilisk by Lindsay Straube, Female Fantasy by Iman Hariri-Kia

This Month's Book Club Pick - The Correspondent by Virginia Evans (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at [email protected])

Sponsors

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We can't wait to discuss our October Book Club Pick, Heart The Lover by Lily King! We're talking about Lily King's favorite shape (the triangle!), the surprising crossover with Writers & Lovers, crying on airplanes, male friendship, and so much more.

Obsessions

Becca - The Diplomat Season Three

Olivia - Twinless

What we read this week

Olivia - Heart The Lover by Lily King, The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

Becca - Ready or Not by Cara Bastone, Kiss of the Baselisk by Lindsay Straub

This Month's Book Club Pick - The Correspondent by Virginia Evans (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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This week, we're chatting with 4 debut authors about their experience bringing a book into the world in 2025! They share the pitch for their book and what surprised them about their debut experience.

Our debut authors & their books!

Katie Yee - Maggie; Or A Man and A Woman Walk Into A Bar

Natalie Guerrero - My Train Leaves at Three

Laura Leffler - Tell Them You Lied

Aisha Muharrar - Loved One

Obsessions

Olivia - Not wearing mascara

Becca - Leopard Coat from Mango

What we read this week

Becca- The Ten Year Affair by Erin Somers

Olivia - Take Me Apart by Sara Sligar

This Month's Book Club Pick - Heart The Lover by Lily King (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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We're so excited for you to hear our conversation with Nic Stone! We chat with Nic about her author origin story, why she made the jump from YA to adult with her (very!) adult debut Boom Town, writing off her strip club visits for research, and more!

Obsessions

Becca - Shonda Rhimes on Call Her Daddy

Olivia - Floor lamp from Wayfair

What we read this week

Becca - The Idiot by Elif Batuman, The Force of Such Beauty by Barbara Bourland

This Month's Book Club Pick - Heart The Lover by Lily King (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at [email protected])

Sponsors

Quince - Go to Quince.com/bop for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns

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The Room Next Door by Wendy Walker - Go to Audible.com/TheRoomNextDoor and start listening today.

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This week, we're sharing an inside look at our reading habits! We dive into how we choose what to read, our favorite times to read, who we talk about books with IRL, our rules of thumb for DNF-ing, and more!

Becca's TBR - The Ten Year Affair by Erin Somers, Daddy Issues by Kate Goldbeck, Anatomy of an Alibi by Ashley Elston

What we read this week

Becca - Boom Town by Nic Stone (Out October 14!)

This Month's Book Club Pick - Heart The Lover by Lily King (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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Time for another round of three things! And this one's very bookish: we're talking about 2025 books that flew under the radar, plot twists, mood writing, what we want to learn about this fall, and more!

Becca's Things

Underrated Books of 2025 Becca's - Any Trope But You by Victoria Lavine, Loved One by Aisha Muharrar | Olivia's - Tilt by Emma Pattee, Finding Grace by Loretta Rothschild.

How moods shift in the writing process

Personal Curriculums

Olivia's Things

Plot twists we didn't see coming - The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden, Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Reflective Moods

Obsessions

Becca - "Man I Need" by Olivia Dean

Olivia - Are You There God? It's Me Margaret

What we read this week

Olivia - Finding Grace by Loretta Rothschild, Maggie; Or A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar by Katie Yee, Sam by Allegra Goodman, A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst, Female Fantasy by Iman Hariri-Kia

Becca - The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy, Totally and Completely Fine by Elissa Sussman

This Month's Book Club Pick - Heart The Lover by Lily King (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at [email protected])

Sponsors

Quince - Go to Quince.com/bop for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.

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September is coming to a close, and you know what that means! Time to talk about this month's book club pick, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance by Alison Espach. We discuss our expectations going into this book based on the cover, how it balanced its dark themes with humor, what we thought of the relationships, and more!

Obsessions

Olivia - One Trick Pony Peanut Butter

Becca - Westman Atelier Blush in Coquette

What we read this week

Olivia - Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

This Month's Book Club Pick - Heart The Lover by Lily King (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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We are SO excited to chat with Elin Hilderbrand and her daughter, Shelby Cunningham, about their new book, The Academy! We ask how their collaborative writing process worked, about Shelby's boarding school experience that inspired the book, and Elin's feelings on venturing into a new world outside Nantucket. We also have adaptation updates and some exclusive behind the scenes gossip!

These days, Shelby is reading A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley, and Elin is reading Dominion by Addie E. Citchens.

Obsessions

Olivia - Bedroom candles

Becca - Sezane miniskirt

What we read this week

Becca - The Academy by Elin Hilderbrand and Shelby Cunningham

Olivia - Culpability by Bruce Holsinger

This Month's Book Club Pick - Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance by Alison Espach (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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What do we want? Things! When do we want them? Now! It's time to talk about big pop culture moments, focus tools, and what we're excited about for fall.

Olivia's Things

Taylor Swift getting engaged

What's on our Q4 Radar

Our Fall TBR (Olivia's are The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Finding Grace by Loretta Rothschild, What a Time to Be Alive by Jade Chang, Becca's are The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy, Boom Town by Nic Stone, Bread of Angels by Patti Smith, Brimstone by Callie Hart)

Becca's Things

Focus Friend

The coverage of Elizabeth Gilbert's new memoir All the Way to the River

Obsessions:

Olivia - The Shooting The Shit episode of The Shit No One Tells You About Writing Podcast

Becca - Day Use

What we read this week

Becca - Swan Song by Elin Hilderbrand, The Academy by Elin Hilderbrand and Shelby Cunningham

Olivia - Big Girl by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

This Month's Book Club Pick - Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance by Alison Espach (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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