Hello, dear listeners, a tiny cold open before we jump into our exciting book club episode,

which was a lot of fun to record. I wanted to let you all know that we have new merch available.

It was not available when we recorded this so we didn't talk about it, but we are both so excited.

Oh my god, you guys, we have a beanie. It's so cute. It has an embroidery on the

front of two little books that I drew. It is so precious. We are going to spend all of fall and

winter in it and then we also have a new giant mug. So those are linked in the show notes.

We wanted to let you know. Also, if you just go to Books Unbound

Podcast.com, you can see it all there. We hope you enjoy this episode and that you like the merch.

Let's jump in.

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

It's Ariel and me, Raylene.

Hello.

And today is our special book club edition.

We are talking about 100 years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize. Whoa, whoa, whoa, big stuff. I just read exactly what was

written here on the front of my book.

What an intro.

As I was reading, I'm glad I decided to actually read the title because I've been calling it 100 years of solitude, but it's 100 years of solitude.

There you go.

Learning things all over the goddamn place here.

Me and Reline have been laughing about how this episode is going to go, because this was quite

the undertaking.

Was it not really?

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