Hello everybody and welcome to Books Unbound, the podcast where we unbind books to get to their hearts with your hosts, us, Ariel, Raylene, and today we have Julia.

Julia! What an entrance! Eileen and today we have Julia. Woo!

What an entrance.

Yeah, for the first time ever we have one of my IRL friends on the podcast.

Oftentimes we'll, you know, have Ariel's friends from afar on the podcast, which is very

fun, but this is for me extra fun.

What a special opportunity.

And the other fun thing is my friend Julia here is the one who has designed our most

recent round of bookmarks, which is another reason I really wanted to get her on here.

Wow.

Yes.

So that's all I have to say.

So many elements. Yeah, there is so many elements. And like you mentioned, really, we've never had like, I don't know, all of the guests that we've had, I think have either just been, you know, artists that we hired to do the bookmarks and we're like excited to meet them. Or just my friends, but they're all internet friends we've never had like

a real a real life friend i'm a real woman like all those online people they're yeah all those online

freaks quite frankly um this is really exciting so maybe this is a new era from now on we're

we're just going to bring on our friends.

We just need our local buddies. The only problem is I only have three friends and two of them are here right now.

It wouldn't be a very long podcast.

I could dress up as someone else next time.

Yeah, we do like to do that.

I would love if you guys chatted just for a moment about how you guys met because it is a bookish meeting.

So maybe we could start there and then we'll start to get to grill Julia about her bookish tastes.

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