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

It's Ariel and Raylene. Hello, everyone. Welcome to the show. C.J. After I said show, I hope that you inserted an

explosion. That would be fitting. Yeah. It's going to be explosive. I was like, totally. I

agreed with you. And then I was like, why is it going to be? And I was like, it's not. It's not.

This is a pretty classic old

update episode where we're just, we're just updating you guys on life books and books,

more books and books. I do actually have a fun announcement to make here at the top,

which I was supposed to make at the top of last episode, and then it ended up at the end of last episode.

That's fine.

Sometimes these things happen,

but today it has to be at the top

because it's exciting and important.

Every year, at the end of the year,

for like four or five years now,

we have done a community reading survey. It is live now. Please fill it out. Every year we get a few

thousand people that fill it out and it really gives us such an amazing picture of what everyone's

reading this year has been like. Because obviously we're ramping up to the end of the year. We're only a few weeks away now, folks. And what that means is like Raylene and I are going to do our big wrap-up of the year. We're going to talk about how our reading went. But we want to know how's the community reading going. So I ask loads of questions on the survey about like, how many books did you read on average this year? How many of your

challenges did you complete? Did you notice any micro trends in your reading? Like all these

sorts of fun. And listen, if you're a reader, you love this kind of data stuff, right? You'll love

the survey. It doesn't take very long to fill out and it's actually, I just make it to be fun.

So I think you'll enjoy filling it out. But even more exciting is that every year

we record an episode about that survey. So we go through all of the data. We've picked out

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