Hello everybody and welcome to Books Unbound, the podcast where we unbind books to get to their hearts with your hosts, us, Ariel, Raylene, and today our special guest, Megan Hughes is in the house.

Hi, guys. I'm so excited. My daughter's here too. This is Rue. She

unbelievably good. Demanded to be a guest on her first podcast. She really wanted to do it.

So I'm honored. With her tiny, tiny hound. Look at that tiny hound. I love Rue. I love how calm she is. Like, I can't believe it. My cat would never. I can't believe it either, personally. This really isn't her energy, but she just, she understood the assignment and the vibes today. So for that, I'm saying, cool. She wants to be a star. We're talking books. Let me have a nap,

she thought. Absolutely. I guess. Oh, Megan, we are so excited to have you here. Me and Meg,

we go back. We go back to some random buffer festival in Toronto many years ago. But Megan, I feel like over, I know that you've always been into reading,

but over the last few years, I feel like it's become more and more and more of a thing for you.

And you now have your really cool Instagram and stuff. Take us on your reading journey.

Okay. Is that a thing for you? That is a thing for me. So I didn't really start

reading heavily, I feel like, like making it a daily habit or at least trying to because, you know,

if I'm doing stuff on the weekends, it gets a little clogged up, like maybe I don't pick up a book

every day. But probably around like 2018, maybe it was, you know what what it was it was when I moved to the

countryside and stopped living that oh yeah yeah because I was living in LA before that and I just felt

like I don't know I just wasn't really is into it but then when I moved into more of like a slower

paced vibe for myself then I was like yeah I'm I'm going to get more books. And, um,

you know, I'll talk about this later because of just like all of the questions that I know I'm

going to be asked and I've prepared my answers for it. But there was definitely like something that,

you know, kind of kicked it off, like something that I read, we're always like, ooh, I want to do this

more. So, yeah. It's been a, it's been a couple years. What is, share with everyone, what is the

handle for your book Instagram? Okay. It's kind of silly. So it's mother truckin bookworms,

but it has periods in between. mother period truck in no g and

then book worms yeah I considered like I first I was like should I change it you know

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