Welcome to Heaving Buzhams, the podcast where two best friends team up with more romance podcasters

to talk about 2025 in Romancelandia Review.

Go to love what we love, do what I love.

Stack our shells with the clinches out. Shout it best life, love it.

This week we've got a departure from our regular format.

Normally, Sabrina and I will recap a romance novel or other romance media while being super silly faces.

And instead, we've teamed up with the Reading Smut podcast to do a 2025 year-in-review episode. This episode is actually incredibly serendipitous because

I find myself suddenly navigating a loss in my family and there wouldn't be an episode without

this crossover having already been recorded with Mallory and Brea. I've put links to their show

in the show notes, so make sure you check them out and, you know, give them a regular listen.

In future programming news, today is the last day you can send in your reading embrace,

via email, DM, in the spreadsheet that I have also linked in the show

notes, and most other ways humans communicate with each other. You know what I mean? Remember,

we do not do challenges, we do embraces. So, if you finished, great.

If you forgot until right now but want to tell us about a single book you read this year, great.

If you want to use a movie, grad school reading material, or, I don't know, send an unfinished note because your stop on the train snuck up on you, great.

If you want to add your name to the spreadsheet but then forget to actually enter any books,

amazing.

You will be embraced in every single situation.

We are ready to give you so, so many audio snuggles in our episode next week.

Actually, you know what? When this episode is coming out, I will be

getting off a red eye after say goodbye to my wonderful aunt. So if you want to send it in tomorrow

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