Hello everybody and welcome to Books Unbound, the podcast where we Unbind Books to get to their

hearts with your host's me. It's Ariel and me. Really? Wow. Great job, everyone. So far this is going great.

I'm so excited to be chatting today.

We have, I think we have a fun episode. We've got, this is our updates episode where we talk about,

what have we been reading in the last few weeks? What are we reading now? Is there any book news,

book hall? I don't know. I really enjoy this time to just update someone about my reading. You know, this kind of reminds me of like why I started making book content on YouTube in the first place.

Yeah, it's nice to share what you're reading and get feedback on it. Yes, exactly. Like I started my YouTube channel because I read a lot in high school and I didn't know anyone else who read. One day I typed, I always tell us to my, my origin story. One day I typed in a book on YouTube. I found that there were all these other like young women reviewing books. And one of them was you. You know what I mean? Like it was like early days. We found each other and all these other cool creators. And I got to finally talk to people about books.

That's how I feel every week when I get to tell you like what I'm reading.

That's beautiful.

Not to get too emotional or anything.

Actually, though, let's get more emotional right now because our merch is officially live

as of the posting date of this video.

Sorry, not video. I got confused because I was talking about YouTube.

What are we doing here again?

Of this episode.

The stuff went live on the 13th and I think this episode comes out on the 16th.

So the merch is live.

Guys, we have beautiful bookmarks.

We have adorable pins.

The bookmarks have the Books Unbound logo embossed into leather.

You know what's funny.

I actually had a dream about our Books Unbound bookmarks.

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