Hello everyone and welcome to Books Unbound, the podcast where we Unbind Books to get to their hearts with your hosts.

Us. It's Ariel and Rayleigh. Hello. We are here with a fun episode today. We have a lot to talk about

because we took last week off. So we kind of have a lot to catch up on. Oh yeah. And I haven't

done book news in a while, but there are two pieces of incredibly massive and important book news

that I need to share. And so we will be doing a book news segment later, which I'm pretty

hyped on. And yeah, and we have a bit of a bookhole. It happens. Would you say that you've

become unhinged with book shopping this year?

I would say a little, but this week's hall is not necessarily because I went shopping.

So things came my way.

I love that little teaser.

I've got, I did something interesting. Let's just say I did an interesting book thing.

And I also received some books from a publisher.

So I didn't go shopping at all.

But I do have six books in front of me.

I love the idea of like, it's got nothing to do with me.

I mean, I didn't ask for this.

I mean, in a way,

some of it I really didn't ask for.

You'll see. It's really crazy what happened to me. Well, that's exciting. Okay, well, now I'm looking forward to the hall as well. All right, well, let's start with our usual little catch-up. What's been going on? Do you, I want to know what,

what's happening here. Okay, so a few weeks ago, I was looking at Instagram and I came across a post

from my new favorite bookstore pages on Kensington here in Calgary. And the post said,

Valentine's Day book swap. And I was like, intriguing. That sounds cool. And so I

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