This week we’re talking Things with Carley Fortune, bestselling author of Meet Me at the Lake and Every Summer After, and This Summer Will Be Different, out May 7, 2024.
Carley’s Three Things Are:
Spring Dressing
Our relationship with social media (sparked by “Is there a sane way to use the internet” episode of Search Engine)
Her 3rd book This Summer Will Be Different, and Anne of Green Gables.
Also…we finally have MERCH!
Obsessions:
Becca: Just Bare Spicy Chicken Nuggets
Olivia: Diet Coke/Coke Zero Tall Boys
Reading:
Olivia: Anna Bright is Hiding Something by Susie Orman Schnall
This Month’s Book Club Pick - The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (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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It’s time to discuss our April 2024 Book Club Pick, Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle! We share our thoughts on the book’s magical realism, debate if we’d consider it a romance novel, dive into the theme of fate vs. free will, share if we saw the twist coming, and so much more!
Obsessions
Becca: The Tortured Poets Department & Sun Bum Face Mist sunscreen
Olivia: “You’re Not The Only One I Know” by The Sundays
What we read this week
Becca: The Pairing by Casey McQuiston (out 8/6); The Prospects by KT Hoffman
Olivia: Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra, Sandwich by Catherine Newman (out 6/18), Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle
This Month’s Book Club Pick - The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (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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From new hobbies to writing stuff to upcoming travel and more, we’re taking this week to catch up on LIFE!
Substacks we’re into right now include Seester Seester by Ashley and Alexa Spivey, Gossip Time, Get it Write by Andrea Bartz, Hung Up with Hunter Harris.
(Also if anybody can relate to Olivia’s low, here’s a link to that Critter Catcher)
Obsessions
Olivia: Duluth women’s gardening overalls
Becca: ilovemahj.com
What we read this week
Becca: Not In Love by Ali Hazelwood
Olivia: Till Death Do Us Part Laurie Elizabeth Flynn out Aug 13
This Month’s Book Club Pick - Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle (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 back with another installment of three things! Get excited to talk toilet paper, unhinged online ads, anti-bucket lists, recommendation culture, and MORE!
Olivia’s Things
The Charmin toilet paper redesign (and the mundane parts of life we’d want to give a makeover)
What you’d want to erase your brain to read/watch ‘for the first time’. (Ours are The Newsroom, The Idea of You, the Masterclass Pharrell Williams Maggie Rogers Video, Project Hail Mary)
Common bucket list items we have zero interest in.
Becca’s Things
This Facebook ad Becca got the other day. (Feat. @myfriendpaige of the My Friend Podcast)
TV highlight: Becca’s is Loot and Olivia’s is Seeking Sister Wife | TV Lowlight: Becca’s is Starstruck and Olivia’s is The Regime
Recommendation culture
Obsessions
Olivia: Spiced Pumpkin Patchouli candle by Bath & Body Works
Becca: Makeup by Mario Ethereal Eyes palette
What we read this week
Becca: The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins
Olivia: Welcome Home, Caroline Kline by Courtney Preiss
This Month’s Book Club Pick - Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle (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 Three Things with Jo Piazza! We also talk about her new book The Sicilian Inheritance, telling NFL players what to do, Easter Baskets & Cadbury Eggs, The Tooth Fairy, making cannoli, and more!
We Are Not Like Them, You Were Always Mine, Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win, The Knockoff, and How to Be Married. Just a heads up: Non-Kid-In-The-Car-Friendly convos ahead!
Jo’s Things
Cold Plunging
Costco Underwear
Teaching herself how to make cannoli
Obsessions
Olivia: Harry’s Grove Body Wash
Becca: Brooklyn Best Peach Iced Tea
What we read this week
Becca: Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
Olivia: This Wretched Valley by Jenny Kiefer
This Month’s Book Club Pick - Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle (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 discussing our March Book Club Pick: Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xotchitl Gonzalez! We talk about the artists that inspired this story, the themes that impacted us the most, and more! We also share listener-submitted follow ups on our Notes App conversation.
Obsessions
Olivia - Elf Glow Reviver Lip Oil, Rose Envy
Becca - Rhode skincare
What we read this week
Becca - Such a Bad Influence by Olivia Muenter
Olivia - Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xotchitl Gonzalez
This Month’s Book Club Pick - Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle (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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It’s time for Three Things and we have a lot to cover, so let’s dive in!
Olivia’s things
Kate Middleton
A game FMKs
Our Favorite Substacks
Becca’s things
What you do when you’re struggling with procrastination (get the Time Timer Becca mentioned here)
The State of Culture 2024 on Substack
Our favorite Substacks
Publishing Confidential by Kathleen Schmidt
Extracurricular by Tembe Denton Hurst
Morning Person by Leslie Stevens
Obsessions
Becca: Jeffrey Campbell Pearl Mesh Ballet Flats
Olivia: 1000 words by Jami Attenberg
What we read this week
Olivia: 1000 words by Jami Attenberg
Becca: United by Cory Booker
This Month’s Book Club Pick - Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xotchitl Gonzalez (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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The notes App can be used for more than celebrity apologies, so we decided to dedicate an episode to diving into what's in our Notes App! Specifically Notes App organization, the most useful notes we keep, the weirdest notes we find on our phones, and more!
Let us know the innovative/smart/weird ways you use the Notes App by calling in at 843-405-3157.
Obsessions
Becca - Chobani Cinnamon French Toast Creamer
Olivia - American Fiction
What we read this week
Olivia: Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas
Becca: Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe (out 6/11), Bride by Ali Hazelwood
This Month’s Book Club Pick - Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xotchitl Gonzalez (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 another guest Three Things with author Tia Williams! We chat about Love is Blind, American Fiction (with an Oscar movie sidebar), and her new novel A Love Song for Ricki Wilde!
Tia Williams is the author of the novels The Accidental Diva, It Chicks, Sixteen Candles, The Perfect Find (now a Netflix movie starring Gabrielle Union), Seven Days in June, and her latest novel, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde just came out last month!
We also ask Tia for beauty recs, which include Laura Mercier Tinted Moisturizer, Tom Ford Soleil de Feu, Rare Beauty Blushes, and Ilia Mascara.
Obsessions
Olivia: Jennifer Lopez’s This Is Me.. Now
Becca: Bare chicken tenders
This Month’s Book Club Pick - Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xotchitl Gonzalez (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 to discuss Good Material by Dolly Alderton! This one gave us mixed feelings, which means a great discussion is ahead. We talk about how reading from a man’s point of view impacted our reading experience, our favorite funny parts, what we thought of the relationship dynamics in the book, and MORE!
The article that we thought of while reading this book is linked here!
Obsessions
Olivia - Lavender shower bombs
Becca - Kindle Paperwhite Signature
What we read this week
Olivia - The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer, The Comeback by Ella Berman
Becca - Bye, Baby by Carola Lovering (out March 5) and Good Material by Dolly Alderton
This Month’s Book Club Pick - Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xotchitl Gonzalez (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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It's time for another round of Three Things! Including things we’re reading, listening, and watching that we had to talk about…and Paul Giamatti.
Becca’s Three Things
Pastries
A Paul Giamatti X Cher anecdote
Olivia’s Three Things
One Day on Netflix (And a companion to One Day by Farrah Storr from Becca)
Everyone’s a sellout now on Vox
Favorite acts of self-kindness
Obsessions
Becca: Substack as a place to scroll
Olivia: Face Globes
What we read this week
Olivia: The Wild One by Colleen McKeegan, Rabbit Hole by Kate Brody
Becca: The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center (June 11); Summer Romance by Annabel Monaghan (June 4)
This Month’s Book Club Pick - Good Material by Dolly Alderton (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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