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

Ariel and Ray Lynn! What's up? Wow!

I can hear the crowd cheering.

Did I bring enough energy, Raylene?

Do you think that that will entice people?

Maybe.

Maybe scare them off.

How are you doing over there?

How's the... I was going to say the big city, but how's the West Coast? How is the small city? Um, good. I mean, it's still, just to talk about the weather for a second, it's still too hot. Yep. It's still too hot over here. I was telling you real earlier that I tried to wear a sweater for this recording for this day because I wanted to have a fall cozy vibe, but God, it got too hot and I had to take it off.

So I'm really upset about that.

But otherwise, like life is really good.

I'm really enjoying my new job.

I read a whole bunch over the weekend.

I started a new craft that I can't talk about because it was for Ariel's birthday present,

so we'll hear about that in a few weeks.

But yeah, I just like had a lot of fun,

little, like, cozy activities going on this weekend. And it was really nice. Yeah, like watching lots

of movies, reading lots of books. That always makes me happy. I totally agree that it's still too hot.

Yeah, it's not nice. I stepped outside today and I was expecting it to be chilled, little chilly just because that's what I wanted, I guess.

Yeah.

But it was like full on humid, like 27 degrees humid.

And I'm like, hmm, what's this about?

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