A special thanks to our Gold Foil Team on Patreon: Adriane, Ash, Bellanora, Bethany, Bonnie, Brittany, Bronte, Candis, Christina, Claire, Debra, Gene, Hannah, Hayli, Inbar, Jessie, Jill, Karina, Luna, Maria, Megan, Michelene, Michelle, Nicole, Roisin, Sherralle, Tiffany, Vanessa, Zoe!

Chapters:

00:00:00 - Welcome to 2025!!!

00:00:52 - AGM

00:02:16 - What We’ve Been Up To

00:04:40 - Ariel Tried Hot Pot

00:10:02 - Ariel Is Into Pokemon

00:14:16 - Raeleen Got A Sourdough Starter

00:16:35 - Rae Is Into D&D

00:21:33 - Shrek Quest Update

00:23:01 - Biggest Book Haul of 2025 (so far)

00:41:35 - Half Arse Human by Leena Norms!!!

00:45:08 - Review: Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke

01:08:52 - Review: Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty

01:18:55 - What We’re Reading

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to Books Unbound, the podcast where we Unbind books to get to their hearts with your host, us. It's Ariel and Raylene. Hello. It's me again. Hello. Welcome to us in 2025.
0:25.0	Our last episode that went out came out in 2025, but it was recorded in 2024.
0:31.1	So this for us is our first real sit down in the new year.
0:36.9	Back to the podcast. Yesterday we were together for, what was it,
0:43.1	four and a half hours. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yep, that's true. Doing first off a live show with our
0:53.3	sweet dear patrons, but then a very long meeting,
0:57.0	our annual general meeting, books unbound, AGM, as we were joking.
1:04.9	It really did feel like that, though.
1:06.9	Like, it was a big meeting.
1:09.4	And before the meeting, we asked our patrons a lot of good questions.
1:13.4	So the shareholders contributed to the meeting quite a lot.
1:16.4	And it was a really good unhinged live show.
1:19.7	We don't have those all the time.
1:21.1	Actually, yeah, it was a fun one.
1:22.8	We have a lot of fun.
1:25.7	A little crazy.
1:27.7	A little crazy, so.
1:28.7	A little crazy.
1:31.0	There was some good energy coming from the Patreon.
1:32.8	Yeah.
1:34.8	And it was a lot of fun.
1:36.7	But I also love our yearly meeting.
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