Hello and welcome to Books Unbound, the podcast where we unbind books to get to their hearts with your host, me, Raylene, and...

Me, it's Ariel.

Ooh.

So last week, we talked about how the reading rush was about to happen.

Yes.

Even though it already happened by the time you guys heard that episode.

But here we are a week later.

It happened just recently for us.

And it was a great time.

I think you can agree.

We had a lot of fun.

It was a crazy four days and did lots of challenges and

stuff. And also, we have amazing bookmarks that I don't know if you guys have seen yet, but they

are very, very cute. They come in a pack of three and they're exclusive to this event. So you can

only get them now. I think May 7th is the last day they'll be available. Yes, but also, it's so cool because

half of the proceeds go to independent bookshop. So we were very aware that we were making

this event specifically because of COVID. Yeah, it's pretty obvious. We're not trying to hide that

fact. It's called the stay home reading rush because everyone is staying home.

We want to encourage people to stay home and we want to get like we wanted to give people

some light, you know, while they're staying home.

But also, if the event is because of COVID, we wanted to be able to support the bookshops

that are really suffering right now.

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