Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! Happy New Year! Wow, we’ve made it to the end of the year and it sure was a wild one. I got a dog this year, had my first concussion, and wrote/hosted 3 murder mystery parties! Well, technically the third one is tonight for my annual family new years mystery, but it counts. Anyway, to wrap up my reading year, I ended up reading 40 books in 2023. Woohoo! I was aiming for 24 and hit that pretty early, so changed my goal to 36 and still surpassed that. And one of my last books of the year was this month’s book of the month…