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. Hello. We have a fun old episode.

Yeah, exactly.

We're back.

So we took a week off.

I think we talked about doing this like as far back as June.

We were like, we should do a summer week off.

And then in July, you were like, actually, your anniversary was coming up and you wanted

to like take a long weekend. And we were like, perfect. Let's do that. So we took a week off,

which was honestly, much needed. Yeah. Much needed. I, like the whole weekend, because I basically

had five days off, including the

Monday that is normally like our podcast day. So I was like, I just have five days where I don't

have to like think about what I'm going to say on the podcast. That was essentially like just like

released my mind. I was like, I can just read and just do that work later.

And it felt so good to be able to do that.

And do you actually want to hear something really funny that I discovered just now when I sat

down to record?

I do want to.

When I grabbed my microphone, there was a cobweb on it.

I was like, oh, okay, yeah, I guess it's been a while.

It's time to dust this old thing off.

It cracked me up.

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