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.

We have an action-packed episode.

Seriously. I feel like a lot has happened. It's been two weeks since we last spoke.

Yes. And when I tell you that these have possibly been the most chaotic two weeks,

I was going to say of my life, that's not true, but of the year, of your recent time time it's been crazy and so let's just first of all peel

this thing off right here why am why is Ariel sitting there looking disheveled wearing

overalls what's going on bring it on for our audioeps, I'm wearing blue overalls.

These are the ones that I wear when serious business is going on.

Yeah.

Because I've really destroyed these.

These don't even pretend to be cute anymore, you know?

Like I have something that are like, I'm doing a light project.

I'll wear those overalls.

They'll stay cute.

No, this is torn and messed up. Um,

they're so comfortable though, because they have really been abused. Yeah. You know.

Anyway, so I'm wearing my blue overalls. I have my old Moby Dick t-shirt that I got from out of print,

you know, like years and years ago. And I've got this like white mark all down the shirt from when I was

painting a room years ago. Yeah. So I'm also my hair, if you could feel it, which you can't,

but if you could feel my hair, it's a little crunchy because I think I might have coated it

with spray paint. I've done that many times before. Oh, look. Basically, you're looking like a glamour queen.

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