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

Me! It's Ariel!

Woohoo! Welcome back to another fun episode, guys. I'm excited to jump into these recommendations.

There are a couple of really strange and fun ones this week, which I'm super pumped to get into.

But before we jump into the episode, Ariel, has something she'd like to say.

It's true. So our episode just went live today, the one where we announced that you're engaged, that I bought a house.

Oh, that's true, yeah.

So that went live earlier, a couple hours, well, yeah, a couple hours ago.

And we're already getting such lovely messages on our Discord from patrons

and just generally like on the Instagram and stuff. So I just wanted to say thanks to everyone

who's sending us a nice message. And I realized that this isn't going to, this is going to come

out in two weeks. Yeah. So we're a little behind on thanking everyone. But, uh, some people were like excited for

updates. Do you know what I mean? They were like, okay. If you ever have wedding updates or I ever

have a house update, they're like, please share because they want to follow the journey. And I think

that's really fun. Um, yeah, we could just have a little life update section if we have anything to share.

Yeah. So I thought that I would do a little update section, which is that I am going to try.

My best. By the time this episode comes out, I should have finished my bedroom and having made it

nice. So basically, this house, I don't know how deep we want to get into my renovation

plans here, but this house has no insulation, which is bad because I live in Canada. In other places

of the world, that would be totally fine. But

not here. It's very cold in the house. And so that is one of the top priorities when renovating

this house, but it's very expensive to like tear down the walls and put in insulation. So obviously

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