November Reading Wrap Up

[00:00:00] Restream recording Dec 01, 2024 • 07:42:26 PM: Welcome to the What to Read Next Podcast I am so excited to do this video with you. So I am chatting all things books that I read in November 2024. I read about 16 to 17 books. I'm mostly on audio. I actually listened to most of the books because I found it that it was soothing.

It's just been an interesting month. I don't know about you, but November felt like, Forever. And yeah, it's December 1st and I'm like, how did this happen? How are we in December, 2024? I was just starting to do my end of the year reflection, which I'll share a couple exercises and questions to do in the next couple of weeks and FYI, just to do, I like to revisit what it looks like, but 2024 was an interesting year and I'll do probably do a deep dive about it, but it was an interesting year where a lot of changes happen and yet at the same time My life looks very different and it just didn't feel that way when it was happening.

And I think November was kind of like a similarity. So November, we started off with the elections. The first few days, I was [00:01:00] like, just hopeful and ready to like a new beginning and new change and new positive things. And I knew like things would change. And then we had the news that. The outcome was not what I wanted.

I would expect it. And it was disappointing in many ways. And it's disappointing because I live in Florida. So there was like, also the referendum porn was like, not what I expected when I wanted to. And I was like what is it going to look like? And I had made that conscious choice that I did not want my joy to be taken away from me.

From for how the world survives and how the world things are. And so I made a conscious choice. I was just going to keep my joy as a priority. And so that meant I kept going off and showing up to things that bring joy, taking care of myself, taking care of like going to yoga, going to see my friends, getting a Christmas tree for the first time in 25 years, I haven't had a Christmas tree and I was like, like, let's just do it.

I have space to store it. I actually have storage closet in my new apartment. [00:02:00] And it will bring me joy. And so it's, it only has lights. It doesn't have decorations. And that's just the vibe is I'm upgrading. I am getting my decorations for my grandmother's\ next year. So I'm going to ship them off.

I'm actually going to go to Puerto Rico on December , and then I'll be there for a few weeks. And so I'll be looking at the decorations and figure out which ones I'm going to ship myself for them. So that's going to be a process and a project. So, and now I'll have that for next year, but it's interesting.

So yeah, so I decorated and then a few weeks later, I ended up going to New Orleans for a work trip. I work remotely. I have a day job. I actually do enjoy, I actually have a day job, but it's actually interesting and fun and it's different. . And so I don't get to see my boss or my coworkers.

Because we live in different states,

we just hung out.

That's been a little bit about what's been up to you and then Thanksgiving break. So I, because I was supposed to go to Puerto Rico that week for a couple of weeks, I had ended up canceling because of plane tickets were expensive.

So I [00:03:00] decided to stay for the week of Thanksgiving. I'm going to go Puerto Rico in like in a couple of weeks. So it's not like I'm not missing out. So I stayed here and I just meal prep, went to classes, saw my friends. Read, listen to books. Did my thing like pretty much like an easy day. So that's been really what my Thanksgiving looked like, but it's not that exciting.

So that's been a recap and now we're in December 1st and I'm like, Oh, it's going on. I'm a two weeks in Tampa, I got to make the most out of it. So that means going to yoga, going to bar, doing my work, recording videos, do the thing before I go to home to Puerto Rico, but I'll have like some time off over there.

And I'm excited to spend time with my family and spend time to do some end of the year reflection. So let's get to the books because I know that's what you're looking for. So let's get to the books. So I grouped them by like different themes, because even though they're like, they're, there's different themes to what I read.

I am a mood reader through and through. I don't work well [00:04:00] with TBRs. I just feel like if it feels good, then I'll read it. If it doesn't feel good, then skip it. I try out a lot of books when I started reading. I try out like four or five books before I settle into one. And sometimes I pick books that I left off, months ago and I'm just like, Oh, this is the greatest book ever.

Or I'm like, Oh, I should just skip it altogether. So that's been like my style of reading this year. It's been very new reading very like easy. I read, I actually did a tally of how many audio books I read. I listened to a hundred audio books and I actually read 50 something books. So my reading has shifted from the years where I used to read a book a day to now I'm listening to books and I'm not listening to books every day.

Like it's not what I go to. I typically go to during my day I listen to YouTube videos and just kind of You know, scrolling on Instagram. That's what I normally do. So I listen to books at night. I listen [00:05:00] to them like probably like a couple hours before going to bed. I do listen to two times speed or depending on the narration, I may listen to 20.

But I listen to them quickly and stuff like that. And sometimes I fall asleep. I set a timer of 30 minutes and sometimes I fell asleep and I just like catch up with the story. That's to be the body books. And sometimes like sometimes there's a lot of stuff and you just don't miss it. So when you catch up with the story, so that's a little bit of my audio books, but let's start with let's start with the ones I've actually just been talking and raving to my friends and then we'll go into the other one.

So the more fiction. So I've been raving to my friends talking about nonfiction and you'll be surprised. Why are we talking about nonfiction? Those are boring. Just talk like robotic people. Like why are we talking about this? But let me tell you something. I discovered nonfiction this year. For me, what works is like pop culture, millennial TV shows, movies things about stores, like, like history about malls.

That's been like [00:06:00] fascinating. It's been interesting just to understand like the way I am. It's just gets me bringing back to my memories and see time to just learn something new. So the non fiction I listened to this month was selling sexy, the history of Victoria's secret, the rise and fall of Victoria's secret.

And then I just. And this is a December one, but when we're going to, it's they're tied together. The kingdom of pride, the rise and near fall, all J Crew. So we're talking about shopping malls and eighties, nineties fashion, and everything in between fast fashion and all these different things.

So selling sexy is a history of Victoria's secret. And it comes from how the store was made, which was a lot of catalogs, which I did not realize this. Until I started realizing, I started thinking about it. It's like, no, that's how we used to shop in the 80s and 90s. We used to get catalogs, the Sears catalog the Delia's catalog.

Like I used to shop on catalogs. I used to like, because I was a little bit bigger and I, the clothes in the mall did not fit [00:07:00] me. So catalogs were the way you can actually get clothes. Like they were in the place. And so, so it start both of them start as a catalog business and then they start evolving and like how the wall of the malls.

So Victoria's Secret start as a catalog business. There was originally, they decided to have like a store and they just outsource different lingerie call companies into this brick Mortar store in San Francisco. And the guy used to spend a lot of money and it wasn't that. So he ended up selling his shares to Victoria's Secret, to the owner of the limited who at the time was doing the specialty stores and malls and the limited express and all these different things.

So, and he had a whole system on how to create. How to sell inventory from the actually making the clothes to selling it to all the marketing and how to the mall grew up in the eighties and nineties. So it was fascinating to understand like these players and fast fashion. I was not a Victoria's secret.

Victoria's secret did not come to Puerto Rico until [00:08:00] like, I don't know, like 10 years ago, not even that five, 10 years ago. And I understand why, because the guy who owned the limited. Unsecure secret did not like to do international expansion, so he considered Hawaii international, let alone Puerto Rico, which is like speaking another language, but they're very consumerist that will have done over thrive.

But that's it's around. So it was fascinating. We hear about the angels. We care about like The fashion and the idea like the beauty and arts and the arts and how they, the weight loss and all these different things, but what I found fascinating was just like this idea of like What it looks like, like your child, what your clothes look like now are so different and it's telling.

So the audio book is excellent. I listened to it at a 2. 35 speed. So it's a pretty, if you think it's robotic, just speed it up. I actually was like nonstop reading it. I [00:09:00] felt, I actually. Went to bed late and I slept a little bit late. And then I just basically, when I woke up, I was like, I need to listen to this.

So I was just like, nonstop reading it for like five hours. And it was just like a great experience. So after that, I decided to listen to the kingdom of prep because I was like, well, I heard about the J crew one. I might as well just give it a try. And it's just as fascinating because there's the similar players.

Similar people that you're going to hear from both them. Cause there's the same era, the same stuff. The histories are very different and the whole idea is like very sustainable. So I'm halfway through the kinder prep. I made it through the first 20 years of J crew when it was a catalog business, and I just remember this and I was just telling my friends about this.

So I moved about, I don't know, , like, I don't know, seven or eight times since the 20. Since 2000 since 1999, I moved like no, actually I moved like 10 times. I live in quite a few places, [00:10:00] but I bought a coach from J. Crew from the catalog in 2000 because I went to school at Syracuse in 99. So this was 2000 2001 around that time, early odds.

I bought a code. It was like peacoat because That's what I used to wear in college in the 2000s. You do not wear the puffy jackets. You may have North face jacket, but for some reason I just bought the P code. That was like the setting I was going for. And so it's a beige P code that's made and I used it.

I didn't use it a lot. I use it like every so often and stuff like that, but I kept that coat. Ever since then, I actually has made it through all my moves. It has, I take it to the laundry because there's a laundry stack on it and stuff like that, but I haven't kept it. So I was like, okay so I'm going to give it a try.

I'm going to see if I, if it actually works, because funny enough, I actually, when I moved to Tampa, I threw away all my winter clothes. Cause I was like, I'm never going to do winter again. But I kept that coat. I kept two coats. I kept a coat for my mom and I kept that coat. So I was like, let me just give [00:11:00] it a try.

And it fits me. It fits me. It fits a tight. I lost like quite a few pounds and I'm like, Oh, I need to lose a few more pounds. But it's not really stressed about it because I'm not traveling to any work hole anytime soon. But I'm like, it fits me. And the construction is Proper construction. It's so well done.

Like it's just beautiful It's like it looks brand new and this is 20 years later Like they don't make clothes like this anymore, which is like the saddest thing and we hear why they don't make clothes like this anymore but it just Coming thinking like, maybe that's something when I think about it like I'm losing weight so I need to like get clothes is like maybe buy well made clothes as opposed to fast fashion as opposed to like things that are just going to like wear and tear it's not going to last long like clothes are actually going to last me a long time so needless to say.

So that's the tangent and we spent about 10 minutes talking about those two non fiction books but if you're looking for something non fiction you want to learn something new about the malls, mall [00:12:00] culture, catalogs, and how we used to buy things and now. in the 2010, 2012, 2020s. This is a great two great books to listen to.

Here's the cover for Selling Sexy, which is the Victoria's Secret and Unraveling of an American Icon by Lauren Sherman and Chansal Fernandez. And here's the image of

The The Kingdom of Prep, the inside story of the rise and fall, near fall of J. Crew, Maggie Bolick. So, those are the books, the nonfiction books that you should definitely add on to your TBR.

All right. So next let's just move to some Hallmark Christmas holiday books. As you probably know, I've been talking about all things holiday books for the past couple weeks and now I'll still be talking holiday books for the next couple more weeks because this is a season. It's a season for Hallmark movies are a little bit spicy, a little bit closed door, a little bit like Noella's.

Like, get your books ready, get your stuff ready. So, like, this is no magic.

, the first book is The Merry Little Midlife Matchmaker by Lillian Monroe. [00:13:00] This book is actually like midlife, like millennial, living small town romances, she's a single mom. He's a single dad. They come together. He's pining for her. She's fighting for him.

I think it's brother's best friend. It's just fine. Typically the story set out that she is just a busy single mom trying to take care of everyone. No one takes care of her. No one pays attention to her. And he sees her and he's like, no, I want you. And he's like, well, we're going to give it a try.

So needless to say, they do their thing. And she, her family tells her that she should matchmake him with other people. And so she, that's what the matchmaker comes in. But he realizes like, nope, I just want you. So they are together and their family is just kind of like a crappy family all together which was kind of like annoying.

Cause I'm like, I wish they had like a better family, but that's probably why it makes the story interesting. But I'm married a little much middle life matchmaker by Lillian Monroe is a delightful Christmas romance. There is no audio book for this. [00:14:00] So she stopped to read this, but it's a bit long and unlimited.

It's just delightful. It's just easy, short. It's like less than 200 pages. You can read them in one setting. I've read this in the airplane and the airplane. So, yeah. All right, the next book is

How My Neighbors Stole Christmas by Megan Quinn. So this book is full cast audio, J. T. Harding and Vanessa Edwin are the duet narration, but then there's full cast audio for all the different people. So there's Shane East, Scarlett's Hatcher and then Emma Wilder.

So there's different narrators. And it's a small town romance set in a place where, they're next door neighbors. They're coming together for a competition. They don't want to do the competition together. It's a whole Christmas town competition. He has been around and he's been handling the reindeers of the neighborhood, of the actual the town, it's a bird Christmas town and he's been like depressed and just like not happy about it.

And he's been pining for her, but she left him on a very crucial moment. And so he was angry at her. And [00:15:00] so they're both competing for the top Christmas Holly Kringle competition. And it's. It's fun. They do some fake dating. They do some mutual priming. It's steamy. It's just joyful. So this was fun. This was, it's a long audio book, but it was, did not feel long enough.

So it's one of those that actually did enjoy listening to this. I listened to a couple of days. It was actually pretty a pretty good audio book to listen to. So, the next audio book actually took me a while to listen to, and I felt that it was way too long. It's also full cast audio. It's my favorite holiday by Samantha by Lauren Blakely.

It's performed by Samantha Bredmer and Jason Clark. I think this is duet also. So I think they do share the stuff and they have like a full cast audio and you're not on your own connor craig's venice edwin, andy louise teddy hamilton aaron mellon I'm north forrest shakira shoot and ryan west. So there's a whole lot of games of different things.

This is a billionaire [00:16:00] Boss assistant relationship. And there's like a, he has a child, he's a single dad and his child wants her, wants them to get together and she's like meddling, but I feel like the child felt like 20 something year old. So that's one of my criticism. I felt like the child was like 20 something.

And I remember messaging my friend, Amy. I was like, why is this child acting like 20? Like why are we having this? So that's my criticism. If you have to pick between. How my neighbors stole the Christmas or my favorite holiday. I was saying how my neighbors stole the Christmas is a much better fit for me.

And then just skip this model together. I did buy this on an audible. I got us a kindle limited and then was for sink it for 10 over none. Same goes for how my neighbors stole the Christmas. I got it for some 49. Okay. So let's go for. The next book that I'm chatting is Holiday Games. So I read this in one sitting, the Holiday Games by Lily Valente.

This was just a fun, like, it's basically a [00:17:00] Vermont girl goes to New York and has to participate in a reality TV show for inkippers. And it's kind of like a great British Reagan show, but for Hotel years and it's just like a fun thing. They're all casting stuff. It's a reality tv show It's in new york city, but it doesn't bother me that's in new york city It feels like we're authentic for new york city and it's just fun crazed lovely and there's like a cat.

He's her cousin used to date the hero and She left him her cat and so the cat hates a hero and it's like they have This, relationship and when the heroine sees him, it's like, Oh my gosh, I know this cat. Like what is going on? And the cat loves her and stuff like that. And the cat does like magic.

So it's just delightful. I love the cat. The cat just like stole the show. So this was fun. I love the epilogue. I love this book. It's in Kindle limited. I don't think there's an audio book, but this is just delightful. So you should definitely pick this one up.

The [00:18:00] next book is

My December Darling by Lauren Asher. So this is a novella, but it's actually like a standalone novel. It's like two, it's like five hours long, six hours long. So it's technically like a short novel. It's narrated It's a Latinx. representation, this Puerto Rican representation. So there's coquito, there's parranda, there's like all the things that we love about Puerto Rican food.

So I really love the representation that this characters share. It's actually sisters, so the heroine sister is getting married to the hero's best friend. They're both, the heroine is a nurse, the hero and the heroine's the hero and his best friend are both doctors. And they're like, there's like some stuff.

And so she's considered a nice queen. And he's like, I like you, I want to like you. Get together with you and it's just fun There's legos as someone who's learned to discover who discovered legos later in life This is like [00:19:00] such a delightful like toy idea and game. So this was fun So if I just remember darling by lauren asher was just delightful.

It's available on hoopla the New Orleans hoopla has and I think other hoopla's have it So if you want to listen to it, this was just available on hoopla.

Actually, we got two more Christmas books. . So these books are short stories available on audio as well as kindle limited They're probably an hour long audio like Really short stories, like less than 100 pages. So Cruel Winter With You is Ali Hazelwood's short story. It's actually said about it's best friend's brother and the heroine, they have, they've known each other since he was born.

And they had this like, long story about like how they connected to each other and how they actually know each other and how he always had a crush on her and wants her but she is not ready for it. And they spend one night together. And it's just lovely. It's just fun. It's not steamy. It's barely any [00:20:00] steam.

So this was just like a fun, fun romp. It's just, it's a little bit angsty and it's just like delightful. So that's Cruel Winter with you. It's done by Allie Hazelwood. And now we're going to go to the steamy one, which is \ only Santas Us in a Building by Alexis Daria is set in a building in New York City.

Where all the neighborhoods and neighbors know each other. And so she is in a deadline. She's writing a book and she's getting like all the deadline and he's. Somebody's giving her ornaments and we found out that it's him. He always had a crush on her. She had a crush on him. And then the Christmas party, they realized there's a mistletoe and then they start making out and they get it on and it's high heat.

It's just fun. You do get a whole full story, even though it's like a short story. So you do get a whole backstory why things are the way they are and what they could do. And side characters and everything. So this was just so I thought there's three more stories. There's one for Tessa Bailey, all the way laid and Alexander Balfour that I'll check it out later on this month and I'll let you know in December.[00:21:00]

Okay, so now we're going to go to Cozy Mysteries, because we might as well just go to my love affair of 2024. We'll do the Christmas one first, and then we'll go into the other one. So the Christmas one is Bomba and Betrayal by Raquel Reyes. This one's set in Puerto Rico, and it's set during Three Kings Day, so if like if you're Latin people, you probably know that we celebrate making say, which is on January 6th. And so, this sleuth here, was surprised that she was going to go see her family in Dominican Republic. And then she realized she was like, she has a TV show. Talk about like my culture for Afro Latino culture and food and everything in between.

So they tell her like, you need to go to Puerto Rico and you need to report. And so we get to see all things Puerto Rico from like, Old San Juan to Luquillo all the different places. And if you have no idea what I'm talking about, just if you go to Puerto Rico, go to Old San Juan, you're likely to go to Old San Juan, which is a colonial Island.

It's a colonial island off [00:22:00] like San Juan where the Spaniards settle and that's where all the forts are and it's this colonial, architecture. It's, Cobblestones. It's a pretty nice little town, old town. And that's where, you see the old school colonial. And then you get to go see the full, the food, the culture.

And there's a lot of commentary about like the currency trade in Puerto Rico with the light, with the power outage. We have issues with water. We have issues with like Bitcoin influencers moving to Puerto Rico and taking over a lot of like our properties and like avoiding taxes and taking their resources.

And that's a commentary that as someone who has been traveling back and forth Puerto Rico and I grew up in Puerto Rico, the island is very different now. And it's interesting. So this was delightful. If you're never been to Puerto Rico or interested in Puerto Rico, I think this is a great direction to Puerto Rico.

She does a really great job to introducing you to the island, to the setting and to make it seem like, and there's a murder scene. So, kind of have fun. So, Barbacoa, Bomba and [00:23:00] Bretrayal Reyes is a must read. And it's a Christmas book, so you might as well. All right, so let's talk about the other cozy mysteries.

So, this one's a plus one for murder. So she is a, she's down on her luck. She's a former trial agent and she needs a new job. So she becomes a friend for hire and not as an expert, but like, basically she's just a companion. So she's helping with like some people like to, like give them companionship and all these different things.

And so one of her clients hires her to spend time with him at a, Mike situation and he dies and we're trying to figure out who killed him because he had a beef with Everyone and so he had a poem with everyone and so she's trying to figure out who killed him and see how I'm trying to Figure out like how to get her business sorted and all these different things.

This is fun I think this is the first in a series. So yeah, it's a person serious So you might as well just enjoy the place to go. So [00:24:00] That's pretty much it's a plus one for murder. It's a good companionship. Nothing major happens, but it's just cozy. Next one is. I'm going to be talking about the book It's a secret book case mystery.

It's a secret book case mystery. And this book is called Death at a Dinner Party by Ellie Alexander. I've been listening to these books as secret bookcase mystery. I've been listening to this books this year. It's been a fun just to keep going. There are shorter books are like six hours as an audio book.

The audio books are available in the library. Bye bye. Cincinnati actually has them and Ohio digital library has them. So they're actually pretty easily to available. So this is just fun. This was a dinner party. I think we talked about, she is a bookseller, but she's also, she's studied criminal justice and she has like a really interesting way of like looking at cases.

And so the first book was set at a mystery fast. The second book was at a, Screening and then this book is at a dinner party and in this case the murder is poison and we're trying to figure out who killed when and what happened and then you have to die for. So this was fine. Available on Kingdom [00:25:00] Unlimited and audios are available from the library.

Next one is The Blonde Identity by Ali Kaur So I did not read Gallagher Girls. I'm a little too old for that. I was a little too old for that, for those books. I grew up in the 90s. So, so I had no experience with Ally Carter, but she does write Spy Girls and this is her\ , new adult novel.

The Blonde Identity is a set of spies. It has amnesia. It has like a whole heist of just moving around. You're up and trying to figure out like what happened. It has vibes of alias That's where I remember like just this like spy book kind of deal. So this was fun This was a delightful audiobook.

I also I think last month I listened to Most Wonderful Criminal of the Year which is her holiday book and I really loved it. So she's now an autobot, cozy Mr. Rom Com kind of person. There's a romance here, there's, I think there's steam in this book so it's just fun. Blonde identity, it's a good Mr.

Rom Com cozy vibes, so. [00:26:00] And finally, The Gardener is played by Deborah Brenois. It's basically it's a new one. It's a first in a series. It's actually set in a town, I think, Massachusetts. She inherits a house. She bought the house.

Someone wants to buy a house for her. There's some murder. There's a couple murders and stuff. She has a gardener, like a whole community garden situation happening. And so that's how it's set around. It's a fun, It's Star of the series. I'm curious to read a little bit more about this town, the just do, if you get New England vibes, this is kind of like for it, but set in the garden, flowers, and all the fun stuff.

This is not a fall. I think this is just like a spring book, actually. So, if you're looking for a spring book, this probably will be saved for a TBR. And then we're going to go to the romance first, the romance book. So I actually read two romances books , this month so the first one is King of Sloth, which is a duet narration by Gregory Salinas and Elena Wolfe. It's by Anna Huang. This is actually like, I started to [00:27:00] read it a while ago.

And then I just, This is kind of like my comfort series. I really like Anne Huang's, like, King of Sin series. This is the fourth book in the series. You do not have to read this. This is stand alone, truly stand alone. Like, you may hear some of the stuff at the beginning from the previous books where you don't have to read them.

It's about PR. Stardust and her client who is about to inherit a lot of money, but he has some costs he has to do and is overcoming those obstacles and overcoming to stop and they're not supposed to be together, but they are together. It's dramatic. It's just fun. It's a little long. So if you're looking for something a little bit shorter, this is probably not it, but you know, it's just a, so it's a duet narration.

So that means that the female narrates all the female pieces and then the male narrates all the male. Parts. So it's a good one. So, and the final book that I want to talk about, so 2025 book that comes out and it's perfect for summer 2025. Not anytime soon. And it's [00:28:00] Summer in the City by Alex Astor. So this is like one of those anticipated new releases that are coming out next year.

I got a chance to read an early copy. \ . So, but Summer in the city is said about a billionaire guy and Rich like a rich screenwriter.

She's writing she has to she's been tasked to write a whole novel and like a whole movie in no time and There's in some of the cities. She's given a list of locations that the movie needs to set to take place and You They work together and they met each other previously and they're coming back.

There's a side story, but it's a love letter to New York city. I just, it has one of my favorite scenes, which is something that I've done it in parts, but I have not done it in one day, which is walk all the way from Inwood for a hundred and something street down to. This down to batter park, which is like, it's my dream.

I walk. Actually, I had the chance to walk most of the [00:29:00] city. Over the course of 14 years, I did like, that was one of my favorite things to do was just to go for a walk and like, just go for a walk to nowhere and just explore the city as it does. That's what I used to do on the weekends. Like, I loved it.

So, The idea of walking the whole city in one day. It's a, I think it's like six miles or something like that. It's like, it's a long day, but it's actually like interesting. And so they stop at places that actually have stopped. Like they go to The Smith, which is one of, that's where I had my brunch before I left to New York.

They go to the Strand, they go to Burns they go down to the seaport. That's the place. I love the Panache district and I have like that's where I worked. That's where I hung out. Tribeca, rest in peace the Barnes Noble in Tribeca because that was like my favorite Barnes Noble ever. It was so good.

They closed it out like recently but it was just so good. Like, I don't know. I love that area. So, it's a love letter to New York City. It's a love [00:30:00] letter to all the things I would love in the city. So it's a perfect summer book. It's a good companion with New York Minute .

Those are the books that I read and we talked for 37 minutes or a little bit less than that because I'll probably edit this video, but those are the books.

I read a lot of good books. I listened to a lot of good books. I actually enjoy my time. What to expect in December. So it looks like I'm reading some fantasy romance. So you'll hear from a couple of fantasy romances that I have like in the queue. I'm halfway listening to Phantasma by Kaylie Smith and then I have Quicksilver to give it a try.

I tried it as a Kindle as a book, as a, with my eyeballs, but it just did not work. So I'm trying it as an audio, so I'll keep it posted. And I'm hoping to read, to listen to a little bit more Christmas holidays and then try to a little bit of like, some thrillers, some popcorn thrillers, some candy.

So there's more to come for this month, but I hope you enjoyed this episode. Thank you so much for listening and have a great [00:31:00] day.