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

It's Ariel and Raylene in the house.

What's up?

We are so excited. We are so excited.

We're so excited.

You guys, for you, because of our impeccable planning, there has been no break whatsoever.

But for us, this is the first time we're recording a podcast in a month. Oh, my God. A month really insane. I don't know how we wrangled that up. That, like, worked out. It's crazy. But it's kind of like made me sad at the same time. I've missed you a lot. I've missed you too. We, yeah, I don't, well, I don't think we, we have gone a month without recording the

podcast in two years.

No, we've never gone that long without seeing each other's little faces.

And, I mean, this episode is a testament to how hard it was because I bought a lot of books.

She dealt with her, she dealt with her sadness by purchasing a little book therapy.

So this is going to be a really fun episode.

We've got a lot to catch up on.

So two weeks ago, I was in Paris and we had our live show.

So we did do our Patreon live show. So we did see each other then. But since then,

basically we haven't really been in much contact just because we've sort of both been busy.

And we're like, we're like, we'll talk at the pod. We'll talk on the pod. So it'll be fine.

Here we finally are. And today we're going to do, we're very, listen, I'm trying to beat her, I'm trying to beat her on the bush.

We bought so many books in the last month. So many books. I bought 22 books. And I bought 16.

Well, technically seven of them I ordered like a while ago and they showed up this month.

So technically I only bought nine.

And the other seven just showed up on my doorstep.

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