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 in 2021.

It's 2021, baby. Here we are. We made it. I like how we say we made it, but we don't know because it's still 20. Yeah, I hope we make it. I hope. I really hope we make it. Oh, man, I'm so excited for this episode. Like we talked about last week, we did our wrap-up for 2020 last week. And this week, in the new year, we are going to talk about our reading resolutions.

What are some books we're excited about? What do we want to read? What are our plans? Etc. So we have a

few categories like we did with our last one. We also have lots of cool updates of things that we're

going to do new with the podcast, like new things we're going to try,

new things for our patrons, et cetera. So do we want to start with those things? Do we want to save

those for the end? I think we'll save those for the end. The true fans will hear our updates.

Yeah, we've got some exciting stuff, some new content we are going to be trying out in the new year,

which is now.

So we're really excited to see if you guys like these ideas, but I mean, we're going to do them

either way.

So hopefully they end up being good.

Just so you know, we're going to consistently sound confused, everyone.

It's because today's December 20th.

And it's still 10 days before the new year.

And so we're pretending it's 2021, but it's not. I know. This is strange. It's not. And everybody's going to be able to tell. So we may as well let you know. Yeah. Bring that fourth wall right now. Seriously, I just, I can't, I can't handle this. Oh, man. And so, I mean, where do we even begin?

I know, actually, that's hard.

You're running this show today, but I'm just going to grab, I'm going to grab a place and just start it. So it's the new year. What are some books you are excited to get into this year? Like, what are some books that you're hoping to read in 2021? Okay. And like, this is kind of putting on the pressure because if we don't read them, you know, it's true. We're setting

ourselves up for failure. But this is just like an idea. What's something that you're hoping to read this

year? Okay. So I have two categories and then three specific books. Okay. All right. So the first

category is pandemic books. Okay. All right. So the first category is pandemic books.

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