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Books Unbound

#290 - Raeleen's Slump is OVER, Baby!

Books Unbound

Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay

Books, Arts

4.8623 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Ariel is pushing through multiple books at once and Raeleen has figured out how to push past her reading slump!


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Mashed Potato May Discord: https://discord.gg/XWmfnXaGqG

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:14.7

It's Ariel and Traylene. We are here at the beginning of May.

0:19.4

Q2 is in full swing. We're in the midst of Q2. I was seeing some

0:24.9

people, some people I haven't seen in a long time. And I, and they're like, hey, I'd be like,

0:29.3

hey, how are you doing? How's Q2? And they're like, Q2. I'm like, it's the second quarter of the

0:34.7

six weeks. Not a know, the Q2.

0:42.1

And I don't even like use that for business purposes.

0:46.2

I just kind of like the cleanliness of Q1, Q2, Q4.

0:47.2

I'm like, yeah, that's good.

0:47.9

It's chunks.

0:51.0

I don't think that that's going to catch you on.

0:53.3

So I'm just going to go back to asking people. How are you doing?

0:54.9

How is your may? What's going on? Excitingly, as you can imagine, and as you would understand,

1:01.7

if you're a listener of the pod, it's mashed potato may. And we are, you know, almost a week in.

1:07.3

By the time you're listening to this, we're over a week in, which is exciting. And

1:12.1

the messages are starting to roll in. We're hearing from all corners of the world as people

1:17.1

are choosing their mashed potatoes to read this month and sharing with us how that's going. So

1:23.5

we do encourage everyone to share, use the hashtag mashed potato may if you want to use that.

1:30.0

Or hop on the Discord.

1:31.9

I realized last year we made the Discord public to everyone.

1:35.5

So we should just do that again.

1:36.7

So I'll make that public.

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