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 are here together celebrating our fifth year anniversary.

We've been together so long. That's so beautiful. We wanted to do a little bit of a special

episode for this special occasion. And so we're going to

start with a little fireside chat. We're fancy now. And we are actually recording on my birthday.

Yes. So it feels, it does feel to me like a very momentous, I'm turning 30, the podcast is

turning five. Like, it's crazy to think that half of my 20s were spent doing the pod. Wow. Which is

wild. It is crazy. It is kind of wild. Um, and so when we were thinking about like, what could we do

for the fifth anniversary episode? That would be would be fun i mean first we were instantly like

let's do a big q and a yeah because people love asking questions and we want to like give you

information that you're curious about so we'll be doing a big q and a but then we're like there are

certain topics and questions that we think it would be fun to talk about. Yeah. And sort of reflect on the

podcast itself. Um, and so this one's for the fans. So what is the first book you remember

reading on the podcast? I should have looked this up. I know. I didn't look this up. No. Okay, great.

But I like to, like, I do have a memory of those first few episodes and like what kind of

what I hauled, sort of what I was reading. Like, I have this image in my mind of those like

early books onbound episodes. Okay, maybe you should go first then. I like, I remember I bought

ninth house by Lee Bardugo. That's funny. Like it was that era. Yeah. I never ended up

reading that though. I would say one of the first books I remember reading is red, white, and royal blue. That's hilarious. Yeah, which is so random. Random for us. Really random, but that was just something I happened to be really excited about at the time when we were starting our podcast in 2019. God, it was a different age. It was. Yeah, that book was huge. And I was just like, yeah, I just felt like reading it. And so I did. Yeah. But I would also say the one about the cats being at the end of the world, question mark. Yeah. The day when cats disappeared from the world. That's it. Yes. Totally.

That was another really early books on bound book for me.

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