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. Hello. I'm clamping my hands shut because we just had to retake the intro because I punched my microphone.

She's so excited tonight.

We are happy to be here.

This is a night recording.

All right.

You can tell it's a night recording because I've got glowing lights.

I always turn on my colorful LEDs. And tonight I decided to go for a red theme because last week

I said I hated red. And then I remembered I have this one red shirt. And I was like, I have to do a

red theme for the people. I was like, we got a few comments from people who were like, well, some people were like, I have to do a red theme for the people. I was, like, we got a few comments from people who were like, well, some people were like, I'm with Raylene. Like, I also don't really like red, but I keep dyeing my hair red colors, like warm colors. But then we had other people who were like, Raylene should stop hating red. She looks great. And like, it's true that you often wear like a red lip and you

have like the red hair now. So clearly red is work. Red wants to be your friend. It's just that like

my face has always been red. Like that's always been my primary color. And so I think maybe that's where

some of my hatred for the color comes from. But I'm going to release red. I don't hate red. It's just my least favorite color. This is progress, though. And I also was like, I was like, God, she can't hate red because all of the branding on the new book truck is red. So you know what? It's a new era. It's moved up in your books by even just one degree. That's enough. Just a smidge. But also, you may notice my hair is no longer nearly as red as it was last week. I've washed it like three times and it's just basically peach again. So. Amazing. It's where we're at. It just doesn't last very long. Does it? It's amazing. And I only have enough to dye my hair with this color one more time and then I'm going to have to buy new dye.

So I think... were at. It just doesn't last very long, does it? It's amazing. And I only have enough to dye my

hair with this color one more time and then I'm going to have to buy new dye. So I think there might

be an imminent color change to my hair. Like, possibly the next time we see you. Yeah. Yeah. That's

actually a good segue. Which. Yeah, that nearly is a good segue. We are going to be taking a week off of the podcast. So

this episode's coming out whenever you're listening to it this week, but there won't be an

episode out next week. We're going to take one week off and then we will be back. And that is

because I'm going to be in Prince Edward Island visiting Anne of of Green Gables's house, and I will be back

with lots of stories, I'm sure. Lots to share and lots to tell. But it just logistically,

we were trying to figure it out, and it just doesn't make sense. Like, right now we're

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