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 Raleen. Hello. I'm back home now.

Yola. All right. I'm back home now.

Yola. All right. We've got so much to say. This is a big, this is a good one. This is going to be a juicy app.

We have a lot of life updates. We have, but we also have a big quarterly update. This is our big quarterly update. This is our big quarterly update episode because welcome folks to the fourth quarter of the quarter quell hunger games. Is that what I'm saying? It's what it feels like. That's what I thought

you were going to say. So I'm glad you said it. Okay, good. Yeah. We are in the last quarter of the

year. And fiscally, it's a disaster. No, I'm just kidding. It's our reading goals,

only, we only have three more months to accomplish our dreams. Yeah. I know. I'm scared.

There's some scary stuff we've got to talk about. So, that's exciting. And we're going to talk

all about our quarterly reading. And we have like stats and stuff to go into but before we do we have a lot to catch you

up on because our schedule for october has been kind of nuts so because raylene was here at the

end of september well kind of mid end of september we pre-recorded a lot of episodes they're now

coming out like this and now this one's sliding in between and next week is our fifth year anniversary of the podcast. So there's a special episode for that. But it's a little back and forthy. So we haven't gotten to kind of do an update in a big while. And so that's what we're going to do today. I have quite a few things I want to update you guys on. Raylene's been doing some stuff over there,

but I think first I need to, uh, what's going on with your face? Hmm. Where's your glasses at?

I was looking for a gentle, subtle segue. I'm glad that you found that for me. You seem like you were

struggling. I'm not wearing glasses. What's crazier is that I I'm not wearing glasses.

What's crazier is that I'm also not wearing contacts.

And yet, I can see.

Yes, that's right.

I've started my ortho-carotology journey.

So I talked about this a couple months ago when I started this process

and I talked about it on the podcast and I remember there was comments where people who were like,

we need updates on this. Yeah. And so I do want to keep you guys updated on it because it's a whole

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