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. Woohoo! It's May. How exciting. I know. I am excited. I feel like I always read at least one

amazing book in May. Remember how like that year, like two or three years ago now and you

read the Blue Castle and I read No My Name. We were both like, we came to the table with brand new

favorite reads. I feel like, I feel like something similar that happens every May for some reason. I don't know. I feel like May is special. I hope you're right. I hope you're right. It does April, like everyone's excited because April is spring. But I don't think April is spring. April, it's still snowing. You know? But May, that's when it starts to turn.

It literally has felt like summer. More days are nice versus not nice. Yeah, like I've had this whole

weekend was like 27 degrees, like warm, hot, some might say, very, very warm. And I've been

spending a lot of time outside, which I was not doing in April. No, no, no. It snowed last night. Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. It might snow here again. It was one of those pathetic little snows where you're just like, this is even, it's just rude. I guess the system, it's got to get it out of its system.

Yeah.

But like, you're just like, it's not going to stay.

What is this for?

It's just morale destroying.

But today is a really pretty sunny day.

And we rally.

We keep on going.

Yeah, just keep on going.

We'll survive. May is also exciting around here because it's mashed potato may.

We are in the swing of things if you are new here.

Mashed Potato May is a month, May, where we celebrate and try and accomplish some mashed

potato book reading.

What the hell is a mashed potato book you might ask?

That is a book that you have been meaning to read for a really long time, but for some reason that you yourself can't even really explain you've been putting it off. You've been avoiding it,

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