Hey everyone. Welcome to The Book Pile, a podcast about the best of books and the worst of books.

Today we are revisiting a holiday favorite episode of ours from 2022, A Christmas Carol,

which I am also in the middle of reading the book to my kids. And wow, you don't really grasp how much of a

terrifying holiday bedtime horror story this is until you read it to children. I'm Kalinerskin,

and you'll hear my co-host, David Vance, in a couple minutes when I put this old episode

on the phonograph.

And next week, Monday, December 30th, will release a brand new episode.

It'll be our best books of the year episode.

Always one of my favorites to do.

Dave and I will list the finalists of our favorite books that we read or listened to this year.

And we're also going to have some extra categories,

lamest books, funniest books, et cetera,

since both of us broke records for how many books we read.

I hit my 100 books goal for the first time.

And Dave, so I actually don't know what Dave got yet, I'm waiting until that episode

to ask him, but I'm assuming that he hit his usual goal of 100 books more than whatever

Kellan got. And speaking of me, if you want to see me live, I'm going to be kicking off the

new year 2025 with shows in Texas, San Antonio, Fort Worth, Houston, Austin.

Then continuing on my winter spring tour in Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Florida, with other shows soon to be announced in California, Indiana, Oregon, Washington State, and others coming soon, go to Kellanerskin.com for tickets or join our Patreon and get in free to any of those shows.

Plus a plus one.

Just join the Patreon and shoot me a DM.

Go to patreon.com slash the book pile.

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