Hi everyone and welcome to Bowdo on Paper Podcast I'm Olivia Mentor and I'm

Becca Freeman and today is one of our most popular types of episode it's our

2024 reading preview with tons of fun guests and picks.

Yeah, can't wait to share with you what we're excited about reading and what other

literary people are excited about reading this year.

So let's just get right into the highest and lows.

Olivia, what's your high?

My high is that I am, I'm doing a fist pump right now.

No one can see me, but I'm a fist bumping. I am getting back to a routine. I'm like

transitioning out of tumbleweed phase, plastic bag in the wind, me, that was me last year, and I am feeling some shape in my life again in terms of I get up at a time, I do the thing, I do another thing, it's the same every day, sometimes there's a variety, but I'm feeling just like good. I'm feeling good.

The routine is getting there. I've done the things I wanted to do in January and now we're in February and it's going to be good. So that's my high.

Oh, I'm very excited for you. I'm also a little jealous which we'll get to in my low but that sounds great.

I did I wrote my high and then later I signed in and saw your low and I felt bad but it's fine

Listen we've all been there. We'll get there. We'll go with a positive first. What is your high?

My high is that on Saturday night I threw a birthday party for my friend Lydia with I think there were 13 girls and it was it started as a dinner party and it kind of became a potluck and it was so fun.

It is one of my goals as everyone knows to entertain more at my house this year and so this was I guess my

Q1 entertaining goal.

I made an ice cream cake, which was really special to me

because my mom always used to make ice cream cakes for me

for my birthday is when I was a kid

and I wasn't really sure how to do it

and I just found a recipe online and it was it was easy.

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