Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Join me for a rambling discussion of my reads and rambles in mid-December!

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Opening
0:29 Personal health update
3:00 Celebrating Emily Dickinson’s birthday at the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Emily Dickinson Museum (and Jane Austen, but not Willa Cather…)
7:12 Calder and Meditation at the Phillips Collection
10:17 The Quiet American by Graham Greene, for Dr. NoVember
11:52 The Secret Adversary (featuring Tommy and Tuppence) by Agatha Christie, for Christie’s Missing
14:54 Dark Academia by Peter Fleming and The Deadline by Jill Lepore (both mentioned briefly)
15:23 EUDORA WELTY and BOOKUKKAH 2025
17:08 The Chimes by Charles Dickens for both Ghosts of Christmas Past and Dickens in December
17:31 Christmas Day on Booktube—and my unexpected NYRB haul...
18:28 Special reading for a White Christmas

BOOKTUBERS AND EVENTS MENTIONED:
Dr. NoVember, created by @BookTimewithElvis and hosted by lots of wonderful folks
Christie’s Missing, hosted by @BernasBookishAdventures @naomisbookshelf
@GenreBooks23
@MarilynMayaMendoza
Ghosts of Christmas Past, hosted by @revenantreads @Cobaltdragon @RaynorReadsStuff @BookChatWithPat8668
Dickens in December, hosted by @AlansReads @Bookishtravels
Christmas Day on Booktube, the brainchild of @TheAccidentalBookseller
@riddbook who led me astray
White Christmas, dreamed up by ​⁠@davidnovakreadspoetry

FAVORITE THINGS (affiliates):
Harney & Sons Fine Teas: harney.com/HANNAHSBOOKS
Bookshop.org: bookshop.org/shop/HannahsBooks

READ MY BOOK:
Unspeakable amzn.to/47HdMh7

CONTACT ME:
Voxer: hannahsbooks

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