#224 - 2023 READING WRAP UP AND STATS!
Books Unbound
Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay
4.8 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2023
⏱️ 88 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to Books Unbound, the podcast where we unbind books to get to their hearts with your hosts. |
| 0:15.4 | Us, it's Ariel and Raylene and Rubin. We're all here. |
| 0:20.9 | Welcome to our reading wrap-up, 2023 edition. |
| 0:28.0 | We are so excited. |
| 0:31.2 | This is what the whole year really boils down to, is this moment. |
| 0:35.2 | This is what Christmas is all about. This is the true meaning of |
| 0:39.3 | Christmas. Yeah. How many books did we read? Statistics. It's a lot of statistics, honestly. |
| 0:45.3 | It's going to be a lot of statistics. Yeah, that's a whole section. So we are so excited to record this |
| 0:50.1 | episode. We have been prepping for a while here because there's just a lot of data that we're |
| 0:55.9 | going to be going over. A lot of data, you guys. And for the video viewers, you're going to watch |
| 1:01.1 | me messing around with my bangs here for a couple of minutes. I'm so sorry. But for your audio |
| 1:06.8 | listeners, you guys are the intelligent ones. Don't worry about my bangs, everyone. |
| 1:17.9 | Okay, we are so excited to record this because this is the first of basically our end of year trilogy. Every year, we end off with a, it's like ending the year and starting the new year |
| 1:24.1 | with a trilogy of episodes that are the cream of the crop the best episodes |
| 1:29.0 | of the year this is what we've all been working towards so this is episode one of that trilogy |
| 1:34.8 | this is the reading wrap-up and statistics episode so what we're going to be doing today |
| 1:41.4 | is we're going to be looking at how many books did we read? What were our favorite books? And what are the stats of those books? Like, we have so many charts. We have so many pie charts to talk to you about. All throughout the year, I didn't have the pie charts on my spreadsheets. I wanted to save it for the end of the year. So I had to go in and create like 12 different pie charts on my reading spreadsheet. So that was a lot of fun. So yeah, exactly. So it was |
| 2:07.0 | fun. This is fun, guys. I sure to God, this is really fun. And then we have all sorts of different |
| 2:12.1 | questions about the reading that we accomplished this year. Then the second episode that will be coming out in |
| 2:19.0 | like a week or whatever in a couple of days will be a Christmas hall and a community stats. |
| 2:26.2 | So basically a lot of these questions and more we have asked to you guys and loads of you. |
| 2:31.7 | We've already passed a, I forget, the last time I looked at it, |
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