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, Forest Raylene this time.

Forest Raylene.

Yeah, we're going to be talking a lot about the forest in this episode.

Big time.

I wish we could call it the forest episode, but neither of us are in the forest.

Yeah, oh, that would be cool.

Yeah, that would be cool.

Okay, that would be cool. So we are going to be talking about the forest a lot because we have some fun stuff to talk, especially Raylene. Raylene's the real forest girl here. But we have lots of fun stuff today. The last time we recorded, okay, Raylan, I had been in the UK for, I think, two days. Yes.

And I think I hauled two books.

Yeah, you've been there for an extra week now.

Now it's been another week.

And I have seven books to haul.

So it's lining up beautifully.

I love the book.

This always happens.

Super reasonable, I think. So I'm very excited to shift into the hall bit. That will be fun to discuss. Let's do it. I'm so excited to hear what you got. Because there was one day, like, for context, I was camping all weekend. But there was one little area where you could get Wi-Fi and one of my friends didn't want to lose her Duolingo streak. So we walked down to the Wi-Fi area. And so I had a few moments to check my texts. And there were so many pictures from Ariel of like, look what book I saw. Look at this other cool book. So I'm really excited to see what you actually bought. I'm always, I can't fully explain this to anyone.

Like, there are people out there that have book friendships, like our friendship.

So those people will understand.

But for everyone else, I cannot explain to you how when I'm in a bookshop, I'm sort of

there with Raylene all of the time.

Do you know what I mean, though? Like, I'm always walking around and I'm like, Raylene would love that snap. Got to show her that. Oh my God, Reilly needs to see that version of this book would both read or that. Like I sent you a picture of a spine. I'm like, look at what the spine of this book looks like here and everything. It's a little goofy, but no, it's cute.

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