Wrapping Up Holiday Recommendation Requests & Our Most Giftable Books of the Year

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🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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0:28.0	This is the Book Ride podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill.
0:33.0	And I'm Rebecca Shinsky.
0:34.0	And today we are wrapping up our holiday recommendation request in box.
0:40.0	This is, we do this.
0:42.0	Now it's going to be over the course of three episodes with
0:44.1	some a little extra at the end in which listeners have written in with
0:46.8	a recommendation request I don't even have to be holiday. It's an open
0:50.1	inbox that the occasion of the opening of the inbox is the holiday but dads and moms in the
0:53.0	open the opening of the inbox is the holiday, but dads and moms and brothers and sisters and significant others
0:58.0	and selves all have submitted
1:01.0	recommendation requests we're going to get into there.
1:03.6	Then we're going to pick some of our Swiss Army gift books of the year.
1:07.0	Maybe some overlap with what we did on the Patreon of our Best of the Year
1:11.9	and it books of the year. I can't imagine David Grant won't be making an appearance on that list, but you never know.
1:18.0	Maybe we just put him up there on the shelf and just say, you know, we should just know that's a thing.
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