Hello everybody and welcome to Books Unbound Podcasts, the podcast where we unbind

books to get to their hearts with your host, me. It's Ariel and meet Raylene. Hello. It's true. It's me and Raylene. Guys, I don't know why, but I'm just

feeling particularly cheerful this morning and I'm really excited to record the episode.

A couple days ago, Raylene and now we're texting like to prepare for this, for this week's

episode and next week's episode. And we were like, there's so much to talk about.

There's just so much interesting things to discuss. So right off the bat, we're going to

announce the winner of our next book club pick. Oh boy. I don't even know what the winner is.

Exactly. So, um, hopefully you guys saw on our Instagram or on our Patreon. If you didn't,

you should be following us over at least one of those. Um, but hopefully you saw that we had

our poll go up. Um, before I, I mentioned this, I will say you may be currently waiting for

our dig book club, book club episode.

Don't worry, it is coming.

Because of some things in my life, I was not, we weren't able to record when we were going

to record originally, and then it just kept getting pushed back.

But that episode is totally coming in November.

But we didn't want to keep holding up the book club fun just because we're late on

our episode. So we're going to be announcing the book today. So here are the books that

were available to be voted for, just to drum up some drama. Before the Coffee gets cold,

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. I feel like I'm talking about the Academy Awards.

Earthlings by Sayakamurata, a mind spread out on the ground by Alicia Elliott,

There There by Tommy Orange, and The Crisolids by John Wyndham.

All right.

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