#311 - Christmas Book Haul MADNESS + Reacting LIVE to YOUR 2025 Reading Stats!
Books Unbound
Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay
4.8 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
... oops, we instantly bought SO MANY BOOKS!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to Books Unbound, a podcast where we unbind books to get to their |
| 0:14.2 | hearts with your host, Us. It's Ariel and... |
| 0:18.2 | Really? What is us? We are live! |
| 0:23.0 | Oh my gosh. |
| 0:24.2 | I haven't messed up the intro in years, and it's only because we're live that I'm like, |
| 0:29.0 | I'm in my head, I'm all in my head. |
| 0:32.8 | Welcome everyone to our live show. |
| 0:35.8 | We are so excited to be here. |
| 0:37.0 | We have never done a live |
| 0:39.5 | episode recording before. And you know what? We do a live show every month for our patrons, |
| 0:46.3 | and we usually have about, what, 100-something people? There is almost 300 people here today. |
| 0:53.8 | Hello, everyone. I feel like I'm on a big stage. |
| 0:57.5 | I feel like you're here for the big show. |
| 1:00.7 | Absolutely. We're so excited to be here. We have just spent a little time behind the scenes |
| 1:06.6 | looking at our spreadsheets, getting our piles of books together, and we are really looking |
| 1:12.9 | forward to this episode. So if you haven't joined us for this episode before, if you've joined us |
| 1:20.5 | for a live show before, this isn't going to be like a normal live show because we're recording |
| 1:24.7 | our normal episode today. But we're still looking at the chat. |
| 1:28.6 | There's a lot of people having a lot of fun in the chat. |
| 1:30.6 | We're excited to look over there. |
| 1:31.9 | We will be in the chat. |
| 1:33.6 | But if you've heard this episode before, we've done it the last few years and we're doing |
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