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 Raylene. Hello, hello. It's good to be back. It is good to be back. You know, we're in the new era.

We're in a new era in a lot of ways. We're in our double-married era.

But we're also in our recording every other week era.

I got to say, I mean, I get that we're on week two, but it's working.

It's so far, very good.

It's so good because I actually feel charged up with lots to talk about.

Yes.

We have lots to talk about.

And obviously, this is our first reading update since we've gotten back from the whole month off.

So we have plenty of books to review which is very exciting god

Raylene i'm so excited about the books i'm going to review oh yeah one in particular which i think

i already told you about but i read a new all-time life favorite book well one of the greats

okay this is one of the books i'm going to be talking about forever. And I'm so, hey, not only that, it has literally, I'm not kidding. It's literally caused a complete change in my reading. Like, I'm a different reader. I'm a different reader. Oh my gosh. You thought I was the same reader, but I'm not.

You're talking to a whole new co-host.

Oh, my God, I'm so excited and terrified at the same time.

What is this neat? Yeah, it is a little scared. I myself am a little scared. The repercussions are huge, as you will see later on in this episode. Okay. But we're also going to be doing the end of the year book tag in this episode, which is a book tag I created.

I think it was eight years ago now. going to be doing the end of the year book tag in this episode, which is a book tag I created,

I think it was eight years ago now, which is hilarious. But I made this tag because basically

I'm like, at the end of the year, there's a certain vibe to your reading, you know, especially

if you're a reader who sets goals. You're like, okay, there's only a few months

left of the year. What can I achieve in those years, in those months? What can I like get done? What are my priorities? It's a little bit of TBR madness. And so, yeah, I made it a long time ago. We've done it on the podcast, I think, every year. And so we're fitting it into this episode. Yeah, it's going to be a juicy one, I think.

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