Hello and welcome to Books Unbound, the podcast where we unbind books to their hearts with your hosts me, Raylene, and me.

Ariel.

I love that dramatic entrance every time.

So today we're here with kind of a weird bonus episode.

At the end of the year, I feel like we often come up with like random ideas that we just want to make into episodes and just kind of throw them up because we've got the time, I guess, and the need to share more stuff with you guys. So

today we are going to be doing a end-of-the-year book hall. So any books that we've received

like for Christmas or around Christmas time that we haven't talked about yet. And then we're

also going to be going through some more statistics, some more data because we know that's what

you guys love. A couple of weeks ago,

we put up this survey and we got lots of responses. People were responding to like what kind

of stuff they were reading this year, with their favorite books were and stuff. So we'll be

getting into that in the second half of the episode. We are going to start with a book haul because

book halls are always very exciting. So Ariel, how many books do you have to haul today?

Oh, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. A solid ten. I have eleven.

Oh, perfect. We can go back and forth. That's funny. Yeah, so with mine, personally, I didn't really like get any books for Christmas, but what

happened is before Christmas, I went thrift shopping a couple of times, and I happened to find some books. And then I told Kyle to wrap them up for me, because I was like, I don't want to look at them. I want to pretend they're a Christmas present. And then on Boxing Day, I went to Coles and bought a couple of books with the gift card that I guess. And there are a couple of books that you sent me as well

that we haven't shown in a public way yet. They're on a video on our Patreon. You and I did a video where we opened up our Christmas presents to each other. So those books I'm going to share here as well. So yeah, how about you start us off with, say, like your first two. We could go back and forth.

Okay. I did want to just ask, how was your Christmas overall?

It was really good. Yeah, it was really snowy, which was fun. Usually I don't like the snow, but if it's on Christmas, I can, like, it's nice. I actually look forward to snow on Christmas, but then I just hope that it's melted the next day, which unfortunately has not happened.

It's now the 29th, which unfortunately has not happened.

It's now the 29th and there's still snow everywhere and it's cold in my apartment.

It's just like, oh, but other than the cold and not wanting to go outside because it's horrible, it's been really nice.

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