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

their hearts with your host, me, Raylene, and...

Me!

It's Ariel!

It's fun!

I'm taking over this episode.

We're doing things a little backwards because next week is a fun guest episode and Ariel was more well equipped to handle hosting that one. So here I am. I also don't know what I'm doing today. I don't know what order I'm going to do things in. It's kind of a crazy little episode. Do you think people have noticed really in that I always do the updates episode and you always do the recommendations episode?

Maybe, maybe not. If you listen to them spread out, I feel like people wouldn't notice.

But if people are like binging the episodes, I think it would become apparent.

Yeah. I don't know why we decided that at some point, but we're like, it just made sense.

And I think it's a really good way to balance the things

out. But like you said, we, uh, next week we have our very exciting episode with Brenna Thumbler

of sheets coming out. And, um, we recorded that one first. And I was the, I hosted it and now we're

backwards. In our heads, we're backwards. Well, back in the normal days when we did both updates and recommendations in the same episode, we would go back and forth each week to week, but we would forget who's turn it was. That was the problem. Of course. It was not a... This just made it easier. It's like, you can't forget your role. But now, I have to try and figure out how I want to do this thing. But before we jump in, um, what's going on in your life? You got any, like, life updates for the people.

Thank you for. But now I have to try and figure out how I want to do this thing. But before we jump in,

what's going on in your life? You got any life updates for the people?

Well, thank you for asking, Raylene. Gosh. What do I have to say for myself? Hmm. I've let you all down

once again. Maybe that's a good place to start. My shelves are not yet finished, but as Raylene knows,

they are well on their way. I sent her a photo. She knows. Three out of the six are up.

And they're looking good. I just want to say Ariel doesn't believe that they look perfect. She

thinks they're a little too far apart from each other, like vertically. And I vertically. And I think they're great. And Kyle also thinks they're great.

I showed him like that. Oh, Kyle gave an opinion. I think you should stick with it. Stick to your guns. That's so interesting. Yes, guys. I'm having an existential crisis about my bookshelves. And I literally talk to anyone that will listen to me about it. So now you guys are listening to me. Now you have to listen to it. But basically, I have this giant wall and I measured it out and I was like,

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