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

Me, it's Ariel.

Wahhoo!

Welcome back!

Yeah, welcome, everyone. We're. Welcome back. Yeah.

We're so happy to be here.

So last week we talked about how we reached our goal on Patreon to have our intern hired, which is very exciting.

We've got her working and things are already running more smoothly.

Yep.

It's a relief because I was falling behind on every aspect possible.

Yeah, the only thing that didn't fall behind probably was us recording.

We've been pretty consistent about that, but... Yeah, I've never missed the episode coming out on Tuesdays.

Like, it always comes out on Tuesdays, but there's other elements that all fall apart.

And I'm just, like, racing to catch up. So I am so relieved that we

have Holly here to just save me. Just please Holly save me. She's doing great so far. Yes. And the other

thing to mention was that we have a poll for our next book club up on our Patreon right now.

Yes. So if people want to go vote on that,

you have until, what was the date? We chose as the end date first? February 7th, I think. So you still have a couple of days to go and vote. We've picked five really exciting books, most of which

are mashed potato books for Raylene and me. So we're going to try and tackle one of those books.

And there's already heated debate going on in the comment section of that post where people are like,

I read this one and I didn't like it, but I want to hear what you guys think.

So yeah.

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