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Smarter News. Oh, hi, everybody. It is Monday, December 8th. It's great to see you. Welcome to Scoop on

Smarter News. I'm Jenna, and I have some breaking news

that we just decided with our insiders who are joining us live for this broadcast, that we're

going to have a holiday party. So far, the feedback is that we're going to do a little coffee talk

party December 22nd. That's the final Monday before Christmas. Look at me looking at the calendar.

Like, I really need to look at it. I'm like, it's a couple days before Christmas. Okay, just to,

everyone's oriented. The 22nd, Monday before Christmas, I think we're going to need to do a little

coffee talk, a little news. And there was a great suggestion on the live

chat is to do a book recommendation exchange. I love that idea. What are our top reads?

What are the top reads of the year? What do we wish that we read? I love this idea. Let's develop it.

And actually, I have a really great story about books at the end of today's broadcast.

I did just attend over the last couple weeks a really fun book exchange party.

Have you ever been to one of those?

Great concept.

Just going to share it real quick.

It was that everybody shows up to the party, brings a book that they love, and needs to put

three words to describe that book, which is wrapped on the front cover. And then

everybody draws a number and you go in order. So if you're number two, you're number two person

to pick you at a whole table full books. They're all wrapped. You have no idea what's in the

inside of them. And then you get the three words and you think, okay, you know, romantic comedy, history.

Like, it's a little bit of, you're just like wondering what sort of book is this.

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