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. Hey. That's right. From coast to coast, we join you today. I am back in my

homeland of Canada. Oh, thank God. We really missed you. I missed you too. Although, I have to say,

I'm very proud of the whole situation having worked out where we didn't miss a single episode.

We recorded at a normal

time basically every day um so i'm glad we were able to during my travels keep the show going

yeah that was good the show comes first damn it every night every monday night i'd have to be

like connor we can't do a nice dinner today.

Like, we can't go out.

I have to go back and I have to record.

Yeah.

But I'm very excited because I do have a tiny haul.

I did get a couple more books.

So we're going to talk about that.

And we're going to talk about general reading, of course.

You have a book game today for us, which I'm definitely looking forward to. I literally told multiple friends over there, like just because I saw, I saw seven different friends. Isn't that? It's so funny to me to think that I have that many friends. Like I'm, right, I can't say that I do. In my normal life, I only talk to you. But then I'm like, oh yeah, I had this past life in England where I had all these chums. That's true. Oh, it's so funny. But anyways, on multiple of my hangouts with these different people, I literally told them about the game that

you quizzed me on the Animal Farm quotes game because I was like, so anyway, my podcast, my best

friend, she quizzed me on Animal Farm. It was incredibly stressful just because I thought it was

such a fun game. But before we dive in, we have two very fun little admin things to do.

The first one is to announce that we are doing mashed potato may this year.

We did it last year.

We're bringing it back.

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