This is the book ride podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill. And I'm Rebecca Shinsky. And we have made it to the end. Rebecca.

We're crawling across the finish line, but we're going to cross it. We come at last to the end of our 2020 for programming, at least in the main feed. And we have one more 2024 show that's news-related,

but that's flipping the calendar. We're looking ahead a little bit. We're putting a button on the

year that was 2024 today, Rebecca. A little old-blank sign moment for us here. That's right. That's

right. So we haven't covered news in a couple weeks as we're doing a year-end wrap-up and a bunch of other things that have gone on. It hasn't been a lot of news. A lot of people are doing what we're doing here at this point. You prepped our document for us. Thank you very, very much for putting this all together here. Oh, man. It's such a delight to scroll back through

what become dozens of pages over the year of podcast agenda in our now, like, 800-page-long

Google Doc. I know. When we each with a thousand, we may have to archive it and start. I don't know

what we're going to do about this. If it's good luck, it's what's going on with that necessarily.

So we're going to get into what was going on in book news this year, what was going in book conversation this year,

bannings, the writers we lost, things that we're going to keep track of that we learned about this

year into the future. Before they do, I want and shout out the 2025 Read Harder Challenge.

So it's one of our great traditions.

We're doing it for more than a decade.

It's a year long.

Well, you can do it as fast as you want.

It's intended to be a year-long project in which you try to read harder.

Get outside your normal reading comfort zones.

Something that's good for all of us can be expansive.

Try new genres, authors, genre format, media, topic areas, all those kinds of things in there.

Link in the show notes there. Also, the 2025 reading log is now live. If you like a spreadsheet,

you need a spreadsheet. You can keep track of all of your reading and across various vectors.

We kind of provide you with, it's more than a placeholder because it's You can keep track of all of your reading and across various vectors.

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