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

And today our guest, Brenna Thumbler's in the house. I'm in the house. Hello, Brenna. I wish you were in the house. Imagine if we got to record this all in person one day. In a house. That's a stretch goal. I'm in a house. Just not your house. Oh, my God. That's the dream. One day we'll do that. You're in a house with

internet so we can all talk. Oh boy. Dang it. We are so happy to have you, Brenna. We are so excited.

Not only because you're just like an official friend of the pod, right? Pal of the pod.

That's cute.

But also because we are today celebrating the announcement of, am I going to say maybe our coolest

piece of merch ever?

I think so.

Yes.

Yes.

We this year are going to be launching a bookmark subscription.

It's quarterly, so it's just there's going to be these four really fun releases throughout the year.

But our first one is available now.

And our bookmarks were designed by Miss Brenna here on the pod.

So we're going to talk about that more a little bit later, but I thought I should plug it right.

If somebody only listens to this for a minute, that's what I want them to know.

They need to know the important stuff.

You can stop listening now.

It's all downhill from here.

Oh, man. Well, we thought it would be really fun since it's still the beginning of the year to ask you a little bit about like a wrap up from you for your

reading in 2021. Usually when we have a guest on, we have like specific questions we ask about like, what's your

favorite book? Who's your favorite author? But Brenna, you've been on the pod before because

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