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

This is going to be a great episode. I have so much book news.

I have so much book news.

I really enjoy doing the book news segment.

Yeah.

Because, you know, when you're into a niche, like when you're into a subculture,

it's exciting to be able to talk about that news with other people that are into the subculture, obviously.

So I really enjoyed telling you about the news, but I also just like the idea that, like, people are listening to the pod

and they're, like, finding out exciting stories. Oh, totally. I agree. So I have a lot of book

dues today, probably too much. One piece of book news that I think is so, so cool, like so cool. So that's a little bit

of a fun one. But we also have some cool recommendations that we're doing today. Kind of dumb,

but hilarious. Somebody asked us to pick our favorite piece of furniture and then recommend a book to

it. Love that. So that's coming up. But before we get to any of that, we're going to get started with our normal stuff. Although, you know, before we even get to any of that, how are you doing? How's life? I'm good. I was just showing you before we started recording. Kyle and I reorganized our office room. We both have these genomes desks. And we decided we didn't like the way we had them.

They weren't productive.

They were just cluttered and bad.

And so we decided to reorganize the room.

We moved around where our desks are.

And so now my desk area like makes me happy.

Whereas before, I just felt like I was crunched into a little corner and it was like crowded.

And there was just like stuff all over the place.

But I changed my setup and now it's like very happy looking.

So I'm feeling very good about that.

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