#285 - We're Reading The Biggest Books of the Year!
Books Unbound
Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay
4.8 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Raeleen has finished the new Hunger Games book and Ariel has started Everything is Tuberculosis!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. We are here with a cold open because we have some exciting news. We are going to be doing a book club on our Patreon. |
| 0:11.8 | We wanted to do a special event over on our Patreon to celebrate our Patreon and maybe to drive some new people in. |
| 0:18.8 | I don't know. That might happen. And we asked our patrons, |
| 0:22.9 | what would you like? We had a couple options. And people pretty, very excitingly voted for a book club. |
| 0:30.0 | So on one of our live streams for our Patreon, we really had a poll-a-thod. We had so many polls for different topics, themes that we could do for |
| 0:40.9 | the book club, and we ended up with the theme, women in their 30s. Yes. Relatable. Very relatable. Yeah, |
| 0:50.3 | that was a great suggestion from one of our patrons and ended up winning, so. we're excited that it won and we then spent a couple of weeks putting together a list |
| 0:59.4 | of books that Raylene and I, we've been texting for weeks, figuring out what titles we want to have |
| 1:05.6 | on there. Some are rereads for us, that we like books we really wanted to reread or one of us |
| 1:10.2 | has read and we want the other one to read, but also just some new books to both of us that we're really excited |
| 1:15.4 | about. So, Raylene, how about you share the list with everyone? Yes, so we ended up getting the |
| 1:20.6 | list down to 10 books. And so I'll just take you through them. So we've got Motherhood by |
| 1:26.6 | Sheila Hetty, Convenience Store Woman by Sayakamurata. The Vegetarian by Han Kang. All's Well by Mona Awad. My sister, the serial killer by O'Yankan Braithwaite. Monkey Grip by Helen Garner. Chinatown by Twan. Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield, All We Shall Know by Donal Ryan, |
| 1:46.2 | and Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami. |
| 1:48.9 | So we've got, I'd say, like, 50% rereads and 50% books that neither of us have read, |
| 1:54.2 | which is kind of cool. |
| 1:55.0 | They're all very exciting picks, but now we need you to go and vote. |
| 1:59.4 | So we will link to the vote down in the description, |
| 2:03.7 | in the links of this episode, wherever you're listening or watching, there's a link for you to |
| 2:08.4 | vote. The vote is open to the public. Everyone can vote. And the book club is going to be |
| 2:13.6 | happening in June. We are going to give you guys, you have about a week, a week and a half |
| 2:19.0 | to vote. We will then announce who won, and then you're going to have lots of time to get your |
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