Welcome to Zero to Well Read, a podcast about everything you need to know about the books you wish you'd read.

I'm Jeff O'Neill.

And I'm Rebecca Shinsky.

Hang on to your nightcaps, friends, and get ready.

We're going to take a good, long look in the mirror today because we are talking about a Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

Big classic.

More influential than I had any idea. Shockingly so.

And we're going to talk about all that that gets into it there. We've got a couple of things to

announce Rebecca before we get into it. First of all, we are doing this episode because we asked

listeners to get us to 150 ratings on Apple, kind of a Christmas challenge, if you were.

Not really in the spirit of a Christmas Carol, frankly,

in hindsight, but you came through in flying colors

because now we are just a handful short of 500.

So thank you so much to all of you

for rating and reviewing the show and sharing it there.

If you haven't yet and you wanna get us over the edge of 500, that would be very nice appreciation thing that

you could do here in the new year. Got a couple things to announce. We are launching a couple

of things, just sort of soft launching them now. So in the new year, we're going to have an

associated newsletter with Jura to Well Red. Vanessa Diaz, who's our managing editor of Bookwright, is going to help us with that. But there's going to be a send for each episode is going to come out on Tuesday. So the same day that new episodes comes out. And it's going to be kind of a further reading, highlights from the show, other things Vanessa finds, our favorite quotes, have some images. You can see pictures of first editions or author portraits to really round out your experience of having a moment with this book and this author around that particular episode. Also, there's a Patreon. So we're going to host a free newsletter on Patreon, but also in the new year, there are going to be a couple of Patreon choices, Rebecca. Would you like to tell people what they're going to be now?

You can sign up for them now, but really in the new year, we're going to get rolling on populating those things. Yeah, so if you want to sign up for the free newsletter, you do that by clicking the Patreon link in the show notes or go to patreon.com slash zero to well-read. there's a little join for free button up in the right-hand corner. And then also you will

see these paid choices for $5 a month. You get access to early ad-free episodes. So you'll get

access to what's coming out in the main feed on Tuesday. You'll get it on Thursday or Friday.

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