Hello and welcome back to Hardcore Literature and Happy Holidays.

I hope you're keeping well and I hope your reading is going well.

Now if you are subscribed to my YouTube channel or if you are a member of the Hardcore Literature Book Club at patreon.com

forward slash hardcore literature,

then you most likely already saw the recent video announcement

where I finally revealed the book club schedule, the reading program, the syllabus for 2025.

But I thought it would be a good idea, as always, to put the discussion, the syllabus

reveal here on the podcast for you too. And I would also just like to take this moment to express my

deepest gratitude, appreciation and love for you. Thank you so much for listening to the show. Thank you for sharing your

love of great literature with me and thank you for keeping the great books alive. And a huge thank

you to the members of the Hardcore Literature Book Club. It has been a magical and transformative

year. And I've heard from many readers who have found

these great works and our discussions around them have kept them company during the ups and downs

of life and that our deep reading program has facilitated a lot of powerful, positive, personal

growth. The book club is a beautiful

literary oasis and we have the kindest and warmest group and members are from all over the

world, from all professions, all cultures, all walks of life and we are all united by our

shared passion for great stories, poems and plays.

And we have befriended so many great writers together at the book club, from Shakespeare,

Dante and Milton to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens,

James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, J.R.R. Tolkien, and many, many more.

This year gone, we have read great novels like East of Eden and The Tale of Gingy.

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