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This is episode 338 and today we are talking about great books from 2021 to give as gifts.

I'm Liberty Hardy for Patricia Elsie Tuttle. I'm coming to you from bookriot.com.

Patricia, hello. Hey, Lib. How does it feel not having to read something for the show this week? It's a little break.

It's a little break and so I'm getting to read whatever I want. You know, shows that have already been talked about by someone else that I've been wanting to read.

And I'm just filling all my time with reading all of the books that I can't necessarily use for the show. So it's pretty fun.

It is fun. I love I like from like now until the end of the year we usually don't I mean we do like December reading one of the weeks, you know, the best of December.

So I do reading for that, but you know that I don't have to do any reading and I'm always like, I'm going to catch up on all the stuff that I missed.

I'm like, it's so much reading done. Right. And it never happens. Like it just it never happens at the end of the year. I'm like, I meant to read all these things.

Well, I've been tearing through a lot of graphic novels though. Graphic novels are good. Yeah, I've just, you know, they keep hiling up. And so I'm like, you know what?

I'm just going to like tear through a bunch of comics. So that's been pretty great. But this is the first time I'm doing the gift show.

And I am so excited about today's show.

I'm excited about today's show too. It's really fun to do. And the thing about the gift show is that we get to talk about some books that we may not have covered during the year.

We don't do a lot of art books. We don't do a lot of cookbooks. Mostly because we don't get a chance to read them ahead of time.

You know, working at the bookstore several years ago, you know, we used to get physical galleys and I would get a bunch of those.

And I learned and you know, I don't know if this is still the case. But back then it was like, it cost twice as much to print a galley as it did to print a finished copy because of the limited print run.

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