This is the book drive podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill. And I'm Rebecca Shinsky. And we come to you in 2025, an eventful year.

Already. It seems to be. Rebecca is dealing with plumbing issues of various sorts. That is, you know, too much information. Not really just, you know, life stuff going on. There's places

are burning. We're bearing presidents. Getting ready to inaugurate a new one feels like a lot's

happening, Rebecca. But podcasts are forever and book news is forever. Happy New Year to you and happy

new year to all of our listeners. I guess they've heard from us and you and Vanessa on night pitch,

but this is our first 2026. Yeah, nine days into the new year and our first time back in the

saddle with each other since late December. This is one of the longest stretches of podcast,

of not podcasting together. And it's been killing me because you've got news for front list foyer.

Well, so weirdly the

headline of this show is going to be when we get to front list foyer so i'll tell you what's coming

up then and then we're going to do new stories as some of you may have seen on instagram i read

all fours over break and i have not said word one to Rebecca about it. Like I asked for like a one emoji

indication of how it was going. It's not how this works. And you didn't even respond to say I'm not

going to send you that. It was just that's the gag. Just radio silence. That is the gag. You have no

idea how I'm going to come down on this. So that we're going to, that will probably take up the preponderance of our front list foyer.

It's not going to be a full book club discussion because Rebecca hasn't read it for a while and didn't read it with those sort of eyeballs on.

And I didn't really either, but I think we can talk about the general vibe.

And I think the one, it was the, the signal gap in my 2024 new book reading. The other thing we're going to do in frontless

way and beyond, I shall say, talk about gaps in our reading. Both Rebecca and I read fourth

wing over break. We didn't plan it. We rode that dragon. We didn't plan it. Rebecca, I think we also put on Instagram or you put on Instagram

and I shared to the BRP, it doesn't matter, but we put it out on the social that you were reading it.

And I had already picked it up to read on the plane back and forth and beyond. An interesting interleaving

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