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

Us. It's Ariel and Raylene. Hi. Mm-hmm. What's up? What's up? It is episode 201. We're in the 200s now, Rayline. Oh, man. Now we can just relax. Episode 200 was the big hill, and now we can just... It's so true. It's so true. Guys, that was a lot of prep for the last episode. I'm glad we did it because I feel like we did a good episode. Me too. I think it was worth it. But it was like many weeks in the making. Many weeks. Yeah, like we did a lot of bonus reading for that. Can you believe we wanted to do even more? We had originally planned to read an extra book each as well. And I was like, I don't think this is going to work, Ariel. I just don't think it's going to happen. I'm glad that you said that. Yeah, because I was doing this like three weeks before recording the episode. I was like, I don't think it's a good idea. And I knew that you probably hadn't read all the books yet either. So I was like, I think this is going to be a good move for everyone.

Yeah, no.

You were a thousand percent, right.

But today we have a good episode too because I think it was the episode before 200 that we had.

No, that wasn't the one with Claire on it.

I think it was the one just before that.

Yeah.

But anyhow, my point is, I feel like we're back to normal. Yeah. Old standards here. Like I said, we can just relax now. And exactly. And we can just chat about our reading. And I have quite a bit of stuff to talk about, which I'm excited to review. But yeah, let's start off, Realene, with a little

life update. Oh, I think is going over there. Yes, I do have a little bit of a life update. So

wonderful. I talked recently about how we were repainting our fireplace. And the past two weeks

have become about painting the walls in the living room. Our big conundrum was

what green do we want to paint our accent wall? So basically we've got like the fireplace

wall. We wanted that to be our accent wall with a like a nice dark green. And so we got a whole

bunch of like little paint chips, you know, we had like maybe 12, like so many,

and we were trying to figure out what colors we wanted. We ended up deciding on three colors

that we were like, let's try getting a sample of these three colors so we can put it on the wall,

see how we like it. So we go get our sample colors and then we come home and something terrible

happened. And I like to call this event the Shreckoning.

So what happened?

And this is completely my fault because I'm the clumsiest person in the world.

I dropped one of the paint pots on the floor.

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