Today's book is a dark and delightful tale about greed, ghosts, and yelling out windows.

The story of a man who never stops to smell the roses or to give them money.

It's a Christmas carol, or as I like to call it, the original nightmare before Christmas.

And this is the bookpile.

I'm Kellett Erskine. I'm a comic, a father, and if I were raising a small boy who used a crutch to walk,

I think the least I could do would be to not give him the nickname

Tiny. And I'm David Vance. I think any horror movie is better if you assume the ghosts are trying to get the

humans to love Christmas. All right, one last plea for an early Christmas present for us.

Give us a five-star review.

Or if you want to give us a four-star review, don't give us a review.

All of the things says, using tips I learned from Kellyn and Dave, I designed my most creative Valentine sweatshirt collection.

I'm a children's clothing designer.

Thanks for keeping me company in my sewing studio.

So I know that I usually like to make a joke here,

but I genuinely love that we've been able to share something

that encouraged someone's creativity,

so I'm going to force myself to leave it at that.

Although, wouldn't it be funny?

If we found out that the clothing we inspired was like little onesies with zombie cupids on them,

and we're like, oh boy, what have we started?

But really, thanks for the kind words, Olive.

Finally, our next two books are our end of the year recap, and then a week off for

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