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So should old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mine?

And that's as much as you'll ever hear me sing.

Hello, bibliophiles, it is a new year.

Don't forget to write 2026 on your checks.

Does anybody write checks anymore, can K? No, not really.

And I have to say, all of you at home just got a nice preview about why my mother and I often tried not to sit next to him in church. I'm the K part of the Kate and Charlie part. And we do wish you a happy New Year. We hope you made your New Year's resolutions. And one of them is to listen to the bookcase religiously. and that you're making other people have that be their New Year Resolution too.

Like, you know, take hostages, man.

Like, go, go, make... is to listen to the bookcase religiously, and that you're making other people have that be their

New Year resolution, too. Like, you know, take hostages, man. Like, go, go, make people listen to the show. Yes. But anyway, happy New Year. Well, it's not uncommon that people, you know, ask each other, what's on your list of New Year's resolutions, and I think you put forth a good one to listen to the bookcase every week.

Religiously, I think I said the word religiously.

Religiously, I don't think you need to have a prayer involved.

But anyway, but bottom line, we are delighted to beginning our fifth year of the bookcase.

And our fourth year really was a treat.

We had a Booker Prize winner.

Yeah.

We had great mystery writers. Yep. We had Dave Barry, always a highlight. Including Arlen Coben and Abir Mukherjee in the mystery writers area. We had Geraldine Brooks. We did. That was a coup. We had Colin McCann. Yes. You mentioned Dave Barry, I think. Yes, I did. I stole that part at any rate. And now, Kate and I wish everyone a happy New Year. And we are reading books that are going to be published in the first few months of the New Year, and they're pretty good. Yeah, and we're looking forward to bringing those to you in the New Year. We have all sorts of great ideas for the New Year. So please, please, please, tune in and tell your friends to tune in. But we thought we would dedicate this New Year's Day

show to talking about the books we really loved in 2025. So I'll start. Should I start?

Well, I gave you first dibs because I'm an indulgent father. And she snatched one that I would have

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