#1 - Our New Podcast, What We're Reading, and Books with Unconventional Formats!
Books Unbound
Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay
4.8 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Books Unbound! In our first episode we introduce ourselves a bit and then dive into what we're currently reading and the last book we finished before jumping into recommending you some books! This week we were asked for books with unconventional formats, magical realism, and adult books with middle-grade adventures! Submit your book requests to booksunboundpodcast@gmail.com and support the podcast on patreon! https://www.patreon.com/booksunbound
Books mentioned:
Our goodreads list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/141358.Books_Unbound_Podcast
The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
My Boyfriend is a Bear by Pamela Ribon
Sick Kids In Love by Hannah Moskowitz
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
A Little Something Different by Sally Hawkins
Fly on the Wall by E. Lockhart
Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to books unbound podcast. I'm Ariel and we're here to talk about books. |
| 0:19.6 | Woo! Thank you. It's a party. So, because this is the first |
| 0:23.6 | episode, we thought we should start off by introducing ourselves, letting you know why the hell |
| 0:29.5 | we love books and why we think we're qualified to talk about them, I guess. So Raylene, kick it off. |
| 0:36.1 | Okay, so I mean, I can give you a short history. |
| 0:38.8 | I've always been a book lover. |
| 0:41.0 | Ever since I was a young child, I've been reading books. |
| 0:43.8 | But no, I would say, you know, in 2011, I started making booktube videos. |
| 0:49.4 | I'm sure people here know about booktube because I love books so much. |
| 0:53.3 | And so I had a channel called Padfoot and Prongs 07. Not everyone got the reference, but cool people did. And yeah, I mean, I made videos for like six years and I don't anymore, but that's kind of what I did for a long time. And I read all sorts of books. You know, I love Harry Potter, obviously. I love graphic novels. I love |
| 1:11.0 | manga. I love thrillers. I love sci-fi, fantasy, contemporary. Like, I read pretty much everything, |
| 1:15.6 | except for nonfiction. I don't read a lot of nonfiction. But, yeah, that's basically my, |
| 1:19.8 | uh, my reading, uh, situation. Yeah. What about you? Um, very similar, Raylene, very similar. |
| 1:26.8 | Yes, this is how we became friends yeah exactly I uh I have |
| 1:32.2 | also I have also always been a book lover I don't really remember a time when I just didn't love |
| 1:37.7 | books like it just seems like it was just always a part of my life and I remember my mom taking |
| 1:41.9 | me to chapters every weekend and like I get to buy one book so um it was always a part of my life. And I remember my mom taking me to chapters every weekend and like I get to buy one book. |
| 1:46.2 | So it was always a part of my childhood. But then one year in grade eight, I was homeschooled. |
| 1:52.4 | So when I was 13. And that year, I obviously had a lot of time on my hands. And so I started |
| 1:58.9 | reading a lot more. Like I really kicked things into gear and that's the year that |
| 2:03.0 | I read Harry Potter and that's the year that I read Twilight and I just like kind of discovered |
| 2:09.1 | YA and so it was like this huge year that like burst me into reading and I went into high school |
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