You're listening to Reading Glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed to help you read better.

I'm author and Book Devour, Mallory O'Mara.

And I'm Brea Grant, filmmaker, and e-reader.

This episode, we're doing our 2024 reading glasses wrap-up, our reading wrap-up.

Plus, we announced the 2025 Reading Glass's Challenge.

Before us, Brea, what are you reading?

So much going on today.

I am listening to a book that I talked about on our, ooh, it's one of our anticipated

books episodes.

It's a nightmare before Christmas.

Oh, yeah.

A Royals and romance novel

by sarah ratch and it's narrated by ellis evans do you remember what this was about do you

remember the plot of this yes um it is about a so in this world christmas all the major holidays are like run by these royal families,

basically. So it's very like nightmare before Christmas-e. Yeah. Like you live in this world. Like

you live in Christmas. You live in Halloween or whatever. And what a dream. There's this one

kid named Cole who is. Is he in the Christmas one? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nicholas, but he goes by

Cole. He's kind of the black sheep of the family. And then his father, who's the reigning Santa.

This is very cute, by the way. I'm laughing because it's pretty, it's just so adorable. Basically,

he, he's kind of the guy who gets drunk and causes a scene. And he, at one point, he causes this big scene.

And then he ends up making out with this guy.

He's bisexual.

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