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Wow, where did this year go? As this is our last Weekly Update newsletter of 2024, it’s time for this year’s version of our Bookreporter family card.

We hosted 14 “Bookaccino Live” book preview events and eight “Bookaccino Live” Book Group programs, and I conducted 27 “Bookreporter Talks To” interviews. We have more than 743,000 video views and podcast listens and 5,480 subscribers to our YouTube channel. We reviewed 657 books, and I have 40 Bookreporter.com Bets On selections, which you can watch or hear me talk about.

So if it's Friday the 13th, that means it's 12 more days until Christmas and the first day of Hanukkah. I still have not bought presents, and no one in my family has come forth with ideas. I am missing the days when lists for Santa were a thing around our house. It definitely made life much easier.

There are two days left until Mercury leaves retrograde, and that cannot happen quickly enough for me. These last few weeks have been a cavalcade of small but annoying snafus. Retrograde be gone! I have too much to do.

The countdown to the holidays is on. This year, both Christmas and the first day of Hanukkah fall on the same day, which is 19 days from now (for those of you who are counting!). I have one small gift bought, and I do not have many ideas for what to get people beyond that. I just have not dropped into “gift-giving/shopping mode.”