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

And it is our last episode of 2025. I can't believe it. It's here. And we have so many voicemails about

people's favorite books of the year. It was such a delight to listen to all of them. What a highlight to

end on one of my favorite episodes every year. Although I such a delight to listen to all of them. What a highlight to end on one of my favorite

episodes every year. Although I do think I struggled potentially more than usual to narrow down my

own favorite books, but I'm really excited to get into it. Me too. I think I have close to 25.

So we're going to... I know. I read a lot this year. And I don't want to leave any out,

but I'll be really fast. Okay. I mean, it's your podcast. You could... Your rules.

Well, what's your high? My high is that last night, we did our first, I hope annual Mahjong group Secret Santa.

And it was so fun.

It made me feel so festive.

Everyone knocked it out of the park, especially my friend Caitlin hosted, and her house is a vintage Christmas dream.

It was so pretty. That sounds delightful. Did you, you did

Secret Santa. We did Secret Santa. What did you end up with? Okay. So this whole friend group has kind of

gotten into watercolor too, which I'm so excited about. So I gave somebody a set of these Japanese watercolors that are metallic.

And I'm very excited to see how they work.

And then I also got them a silver engraved pill case that says blanks drugs, which I thought was very good.

Like the person's name?

Yes.

Okay. Customized. Got it.

Customized, yes.

So that's what I gave.

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