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Charting what you’ll be loving next month based on what you’re into now.

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When we finished Nina Riggs’ extraordinary memoir last year (yes, we cried), we didn’t think we’d read anything quite like that deeply human story of living and dying for a long time. Yet just a few months later, along came another remarkable volume of a woman’s life experience that could easily sit alongside Riggs’ in its pathos and prose. Maggie O’Farrell’s I Am, I Am, I Am is about a series of neardeath experiences—from bleeding out during a Caesarean to narrowly escaping a serial killer’s clutches—that, woven together, tell O’Farrell’s own story. (And, yes, we cried while reading this one too.)

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Congrats! You didn’t crack into the stale panettone until 3 p.m. on January 5, which is a whole one day and 17 minutes later than last year. But now that you’re back down here in the indulgent ditch with the rest of us, may we suggest these dipping sauces? Made by Montreal-based Cacao 70, these adorable little tins contain fondue perfectly formulated for bathing marshmallows and strawberries in liquid hope/joy/peace/love/chocolate. We especially like the matcha option for the, uh, cell-repairing antioxidants. ($12 each, cacao70.com)

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If Amy Sherman-Palladino’s triumphant take on costume drama (seriously, it’s like the best of Gilmore Girls but with really good ’40s dresses) has you in the mood for more period pieces, might we suggest Acorn TV? It’s an under-the-radar streaming service that focuses on a niche dear to our Downton- missing hearts: Australian, U.K. and Canadian television that leans heavily on the cozy/soapy. Specifically, consider A Place to Call Home, which chronicles the dramz of a small down-under farming community in the 1950s. At five seasons deep, it’s ripe for a winter-weekend binge.