Hello, everyone and Merry Christmas.

This is our Christmas episode of Books Unbound, the podcast where we're on buying books

to get to their hearts with your host, Us. It's Ariel and Ray Greener.

Oh! I just got my hair dyed more green than it was before. Before it was kind of turquoisey,

kind of teal and now it's straight green. So closer to what you wanted? Yeah, I'm feeling happier about it now hell yeah was it

starting to fade a little more turquoisey as well kind of the it was like weirdly powerful though

the turquoise versus the because it was kind of like half green half turquoise and like the green was

and like the green was fading faster than like the turquoise was it's like it didn't want to go anywhere

and so we were like we got to fix this man well i'm glad that you got it fixed that's awesome um

we're excited to do this episode as you guys know we're in the middle of our end of the year trilogy, where we do our three

big episodes of the year. The first one that came out last week was a look. It was a reading wrap-up.

It was a look at our reading statistics. How many books did we read? From what countries? A lot of

other stats.

Lots of stats. I don't remember.

But then also, you know, announcing our favorite books of the year, our favorite covers, our

favorite this, that, this, that. And it was awesome. It was an epic. It was a real saga starter.

Today, we're here doing an episode that's always a lot of fun.

The Christmas Book Hall.

We are looking, we both celebrate Christmas, and so we both partook in a little Christmas

shopping.

Let's talk, we'll talk about that.

I have a huge announcement to make in this episode really, and that I'm really, really excited. And it's the reason why I have so many books. Okay. That I... I have a shocking amount of books to hold in this. Like, like crazy. I think it's possible this is the most books I've ever hauled in an app. Ooh, I should guess how many. Oh, you should. I haven't even counted. I'm too scared to count.

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