Hello everybody and welcome to Books Unbound, the podcast where we unbind books, specifically this week one book to get to its heart with your host, us, Ariel and...

Raylene. Hello.

Welcome to the show, everybody.

Hope you're well. Hope you're well.

We read the most disturbing book of our lives.

Whoa.

Dramatic headlines.

Say it ain't so, Raylene. Say it ain't so.

I mean, it's true. We spent basically our... Not our entire weekend, but we met up every day this past weekend,

including today, to read a very interesting, horrible, but good book.

I don't know how to, it's going to be an interesting discussion for sure.

Yeah. So we're going to hop into that discussion soon.

Like we literally just finished the book 15 minutes ago and I'm feeling all sorts of feelings.

But yeah, how's other than this book, we'll cut back to that. How are you doing, really?

Good, good. So another thing I did this weekend was set up my Christmas tree.

So, because I'm very much in the vein of people that's like, Christmas doesn't start until December because I'm not like hardcore about Christmas.

I've just been getting into it a little bit more and more each year.

Like I'm excited to watch some Christmas movies.

I don't know which ones yet, but I'm getting excited.

But I haven't like dipped my toes into Christmas at all yet other than putting up our trees.

So we also went and bought some lights to put up outside because this is our first Christmas like after we've been fully settled into this house. And we forgot to get like clips or something

to actually hang them up. So we were like, I've never done this before. I don't know how to put up

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