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 Technicolor.

For the people watching the video, I have like purple lofi lighting because it's

nighttime.

So, yes.

Things have to be a little different.

This is a night edition.

Yep.

Night shift.

These come every once in a while.

Usually some of our best episodes in our opinion. wonder why we're tired oh rayleyn's got

the whine out yep i'm ready to go oh boy so we have we we usually film um or then record on mondays

those are like our dedicated podcast days and raylene has that as a day

off from her real life job for the podcast job but i was recently traveling i was in new york city

and so we couldn't record on monday because i wasn't here so we're doing an evening episode.

I just have lemonade, Raylene. Wow. Oh, lemonade. You've got it. Your nails look great, by the way.

Oh my God. Thank you. You're welcome. I got them done in New York.

It was a really fun appointment.

It was one of those situations I was on the bus with Kaylee, who Kaylee Hyde, our friend, is the reason I went to New York.

It was her birthday party, and she invited me.

And I was like, of course I'm going I went last year

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