You're going to go. Hi everyone and welcome to Bad on Paper podcast I'm Olivia mentor and I'm Becca Freeman and today is our last

episode of 2023 the best right yeah you're looking at me like that's

yeah it's hard to believe but it's the best books of the year so this is such a fun episode. We got so many listener voicemails which I loved. I listened to every single one of them.

Hopefully most of them are included here, if not all, because there were a lot.

But yeah, get your pens out. Get ready to write down all of these recommendations.

I was bold over by the amount of voicemail we got.

Clearly we have struck on something that our listeners are passionate about here.

And so many different types of books, like whatever I was expecting people to say just totally different types of books and so I

made my own little list of things to buy after this too.

Oh well we have a lot to get into but first let's do some quick highs and lows.

What is your high, Olivia?

My high is small town Christmas things.

I am currently looking out at my barn, which is covered in snow. I don't actually go in the barn because it's actually terrifying, but it's just such a nice little Christmas scene and it just feels like it's been that way here all week. There are so many Christmas festivals.

We're in a walk yesterday in the snow. Neighbor invited us to the neighborhood

Christmas extravaganza on Saturday. Our town is having a Christmas festival tomorrow night with

Santa and ponies stand wine tasting and DJ I don't know.

So I'm just really excited and it's just

been such a lovely time of year here and I've loved it.

You live in a Hallmark movie.

It's not bad.

It's not bad. Do you think that Jake's Hallmark Nemesis, or maybe not

Nemesis Hallmark Doppelganger, what's his name? Ryan Pavey? Do you think Ryan

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