Hello, everybody, and welcome to Books Unbound podcast with your host, me.

It's Ariel and me, Raylene.

Woo!

We're here to talk books.

Before we dive in, we want to thank you all.

Thank you.

Seriously.

Yeah.

The reception that we got for our first episode was so unbelievably kind and generous.

People sharing that they were listening to us on Instagram was so exciting.

Every time that we were like mentioned in someone's story, I was like,

a dream has come true. Yeah, it made me so happy. I didn't think we were going to have that

many listeners at all. I know. So we're super grateful and we're really excited to have you guys

here. We're excited to do another good episode and to bring them to you every week.

We also really want to thank everyone who's supporting us over on Patreon, on Patreon,

that's the word I can pronounce, because, I don't know, it just really supports the podcast.

We're trying to make it something that we can do every single week, and it really helps us out.

So if you want to go check out the Patreon, there is a bonus mini podcast that you can listen to where we reminisce about old YA and vote, a poll.

You can go vote. Even if you're not a patron, you can go and participate in these things.

We made them available for everyone. You can go vote on what our first buddy read will be because

Raylene and I want to read a book together and do a special like review episode. So you can join in on that.

But now it is time to jump on in. Raylene, what are you currently reading?

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