Hello everybody and welcome to Books Unbound, the podcast where we unbind books and buy them to get to their hearts.

With your host's us, it's Ariel and.

Raylene, hello. Oh boy, ladies and gentlemen and everyone else. We've got a treat for you. We are here with a, like Raylene said, a little bit of a treat. This is going to be a fun episode, isn't it? I think so. I think this is going to be a highlight. I really hope it turns out well. I hope we don't eventually get to the book sale and everything sucks and it falls apart. But as of right now, it's going to be

very fun. It's going to be really fun. So let us start with a tail, a small tail to get you all up to

speed on the situation. So once a month we do a live show with our patrons.

Yes. So we just chat and we try and read, but we always just end up talking more than we

actually do any reading. So somebody, one of our patrons, Sierra, yeah, one of our patrons that's

always there and we love Sierra. Sierra lives in British Columbia

like Raylene. Yeah. And she mentioned that she was going to be attending a book sale, a big, big book sale.

And Raylene was like, wait a minute, is it this one? Because I'm also going to that. And that derailed the conversation for

like 20 minutes because we started talking about book sales. So I mean, first, I think we should

explain to people what a book sale is because what we were realizing from the comments is that

it's not really universal book activity. Yeah. So the one I go to is like a charity. It's the

rotary book sale. So I don't know if it'll be called that everywhere, but that might be a good

place to start if you're trying to find one of these book sales for yourself. Because it's all

these books that have just been donated. And so they do this ginormous book sale, usually twice a year per location.

There's all sorts of different rotary clubs in each different city. And so they all do their

own book clubs or book sales. And so it gets pretty crazy. I have gone to many of these book sales,

but the one that I'm going to is by far the best one. It's huge. It's in this like curling arena.

So imagine like a hockey rink, just full of books.

That's kind of what this is like.

It's so funny because you went from saying something so Canadian.

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