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

Me, Raylene.

Woo-hoo! Hello.

So excited to be here today talking to you guys about... me, it's Ariel and me, Raylene. Woo-hoo. Hello.

So excited to be here today talking to you guys about books.

Me and Raylene are not at our best right now.

I just woke up from a nap.

She's got all the lights off because her eyes are super dilated from an eye appointment.

We're a disaster.

But you know what?

We're so excited to be chatting with you guys today. Before we dive in, I definitely want to acknowledge the elephant in the room.

I hope that everyone is doing okay during this crazy coronavirus time. Everyone can do their

role to try and help us all out.

Self-distance, everyone, self-isolate, social distance.

But the one thing that me and Raylene can do is get your minds off of it for an hour.

We're going to hang out, we're going to talk about books, and we really hope that this

brings some comfort to everyone during this very stressful time.

So no matter where you are in the world, our hearts are with you. We love you so much.

And let's talk about books and let our minds rest for a gosh darn second because it is a stressful

as heck time. Let's just think about books. I honestly, I've just been doing nothing but reading

and playing Stardu Valley like when i have a day off

i just like i just want to do something else i gosh i know and i've heard so many people talking about

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