Hello and welcome to Books Unbound, the podcast where we unbind books to get to their hearts with your host, me, Raleen, and...

Me. It's Ariel. Whoa. Plot twist. It's still us. I thought you were going to be someone else for a second. Yeah, exactly. That was terrifying. Well, before we dive in, how are you doing? I feel like it's been a while since we've had just a normal old episode with you and me not hauling like 80 books. I know, right? Here we are. Same old, same old. Finally. I, honestly, I've had a really

rough week, and I'm excited to be sitting down with my pal to talk about books, you know, a nice

little reset. Yes, a good escape from the grind of life. And let me tell you, it really is a grind.

It sure is. It sure is. Yeah, last week was pretty hectic for me too. Yeah. Hopefully this week won't be too bad.

How are you feeling wisdom tooth-wise?

That's important.

Yeah, it's now been just like about a week and a half since I had my wisdom teeth removed.

And I'm feeling better now.

My mouth still gets sore.

Like if I talk a lot, I guess, or if I like eat a lot of food that's not soft.

And so I'm okay right now but who knows

my jaw might hurt by the end of this.

I'm sure it will like when do you really talk this much?

Not very often.

Not very often let me tell you.

Although one of my one of my stitches already dissolved so that's fun.

But just one of them.

Okay. I don't really understand how that works.

I don't know if it was supposed to do that.

But so far I feel like it's okay.

That's really interesting.

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