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For chicken worth dipping, it better be bird's eye. This is episode 138. This is the Book Riot Podcast, a weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool, and worth talking

about in the world of books and reading.

This is episode 138. We are recording on Thursday, December

24th. I'm Rebecca Shinsky. I'm here with Jeff O'Neill and we're coming to you

from bookriot.com. Hello. It's a Merry Christmas Eve to you and everyone out there though you're not going to hear this until after Christmas.

But it's Christmas Eve here in Portland and there in Richmond and really everywhere else.

It's not a different day other places just because we're recording right now.

And it is not beginning to look anything like Christmas.

No, no, no, no.

It's been raining forever.

Yeah, so this is our year and review show.

And we're going to, we're going to give some quote-unquote awards and just talk about some

of the big stories of a year and sort of try to try to see what's going on.

So...

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