You're listening to all the Backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new.

I'm your host, Vanessa the S, and this is Episode 391.5, airing on Friday, December 9th,

and today I'm going to tell you about some of my favorite seasons readings.

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I am definitely a person who likes to do seasonal reading.

I don't exclusively read holiday themed books in December, but I do read plenty of them.

I'm a person who reads, and you know this, if you've been listening to this podcast

for any amount of time, I love reading Witchy, Vampire, Ghosty Things, and October, and

I will read a few extra pieces of romance during Valentine's Day.

It's just a fun little treat.

Do I have to do it?

No, but I especially, I don't know, at the end of a very tough three years this year in

particular, I feel like I'm really leaning into just searching for comfort in the books

that I read, and for me, that means stuff like romance and like cozy mystery and just

anything with that holiday theme, and I'm going to talk about two of my favorites, one

that is a recent release, still a Backlist title, because it came out last year, and one

that I haven't actually read in some time.

Let's get into it before I go off on a tangent that you don't need to hear.

The first of which is a more actually a holiday romance anthology by Deep Breath, Zoe Castile,

Alexis Daria, Adriana Herrera, Diana Muño Stewart, Priscila Oliveras, Sabrina Sol, and

Mia Sosa.

What a powerhouse stack of romance authors, and they're all Latina, which brings me to

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