Hi, everyone. Welcome back to Bad on Paper podcast. I'm Becca Freeman. And I'm Olivia Mentor.

And I'm so excited because we are doing our 2025 book preview episode with five guests,

plus us, who all have book recommendations that are coming out in the first half of this year.

I love these episodes. They're like some of my very, my very favorites.

I just, I love them. This has also been very interesting because we've, we're recording the

intro and outro after we've done most of the interviews. And I just put together for Substack,

a list of 52 books that I'm excited about that come out between now and June. And every conversation

we've had, I have not heard of any of the books people are bringing. Like, people are bringing us

such interesting things that weren't on my radar. So we have some translated literature. We have

an audible original. We have a romantic seat.

I'm very excited for people to listen to this.

Yes. Get your TBR list ready. Get your pens ready.

Yes. But before we get into these mini interviews, Olivia, tell me about your high.

My high is that I feel reborn. I have a new laptop for the first time since the great water spill incident of 2023.

I have been using Jake's, like, extra laptop since then.

And so basically he has a work laptop and a personal one, and I kind of took the personal one.

But then, like, he would inevitably need to do non-work stuff.

And so we would kind of have to share it.

And it was just, it was very generous of him to share it with me until I could afford to buy a new one.

But I have a brand new one.

It's very shiny.

It's like that new color.

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