Hello, everybody and welcome to Books Unbound, the podcast where we unbind books to get to their heart with your host, me.

It's Ariel. We also have me, Raylene. And today we

have a special guest. It's Jesse from Jesse the reader. Jesse say hi. Hello, I'm the person

that you used to be friends with. Yeah, we used to be friends with Jesse George, accidentally

introduced him like that a couple of minutes ago and was like well we're not friends

anymore you're that guy you're just somebody that we used to know yeah we're so excited to have

you jesse you are our first official guest i am so honored to be the first official guest i'm also

incredibly nervous because this podcast is amazing i'm obsessed with it and I don't want to ruin

it. You'll do great. Thank you. Um, we were like, we have to have a guest. Who is it going to be?

And we were both just like, it's got to be Jesse. He's like, my heart. You're like, the thing we're

trying to do with this podcast in a sense is bring back that old book tube joy. Yeah. And we were like, we were the OGs. Yeah. We like discovered each other's channels when we had like less than a thousand subscribers. Yeah. We're like, we've been in it for the long haul. Yeah. I was thinking about that today. I was like, I'm really proud of us and like where we've come with like all our bookish content on the internet. It's true. We've all come a long way. Yes. For sure. Watch us. Where will we go next?

To this podcast. We jump into the podcast. We're really excited to chat about books. Oh my God. I can't wait to hear like Jesse's recommendation. We have a few little notes. First of all, we are doing our first

official buddy read. You all voted and we, you have all chosen on Earth. We're briefly gorgeous by

Ocean Vuong. So we're going to be reading that throughout the next month. If you want the details,

go to our Instagram because we haven't ironed it all out yet,

but we will by the time the podcast episode comes out. So go to our Instagram and you can join

our buddy read. We also have our Facebook group up, which is going to function as a place

where we can all hang out, talk about books, and also it'll be really good for the buddy read.

So again, go to the Instagram.

The details are there.

Absolutely.

One final thing.

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