Hello everybody and welcome to Books Unbound Podcast, the podcast where we unbind books to get to their hearts with your hosts, me. It's Ariel and...

Me, Raylene.

Exciting stuff. Today, we're so excited to have a very special episode. Today we're talking

about On Earth, we're briefly gorgeous by Ocean Vuong, our first ever book club pick.

Woo. So, you know, this is a new podcast burgeoning onto the scene of

podcasts. And we're testing ideas. We're trying out different episode concepts, different things that

we can do. And, you know, we're talking about books. So we thought, let's do a book club. This would

be a lot of fun. Um, and we were thinking, what is a cool thing we could do with a a book club this would be a lot of fun um and we were thinking what is a cool

thing we could do with a podcast book club so we asked for you guys to send us voice clips and you did

it so today we're going to be sharing our thoughts and we're going to be listening to your thoughts

yeah we're very excited because i mean i'm really hyped because i think this is going to be a fun thing to do and we'll like learn about how to do this kind of episode and then we can do more in the future. Yeah, I can't wait to hear people's thoughts. That too, yeah. It's usually just you and me and this is going to be so fun. Yeah, me and Raylene decided not to listen to the voice clips beforehand because we want like our um reactions to be pure

and unadultered um we don't want to be fakers so yeah so i'm i agree really and i'm really

excited to just be like what did everyone think what do people have to say what were the like

yeah i'm really curious the different opinions we're going to unveil today. Yeah.

An important note.

This episode is all non-spoilery.

So we are not going to go into any spoilers.

If you haven't read the book, I still think you should listen to the episode because

it'll be a fun one.

We're just going to deep dive into this book.

And you don't have to worry about being spoiled

if you've only just started it or haven't yet read it. But with that, all of that being said,

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