Hello and welcome to Books Unbound, the podcast where we Unbind books to get to their hearts with your host, me, Rubin, I mean Raylene, and my friend.

Ariel. I need an, I think I need an alias.

I need a cool.

You do need an alter ego.

It has to come to you naturally. That's the problem. It has to be at the top of the episode. You have to just accidentally say the wrong name. Exactly. That's how this happens. God damn it. I was like, I was really trying to be fun like you and I was going to be like and you were going to be like and then where I say Ariel I was going trying to be fun like you, and I was going to be like, and you were going to be like,

and then as where I say Ariel, I was going to say, the mermaid. I was, it didn't work out, okay? It just didn't work out. It's okay. It has to be natural. Don't force it. It'll come to me. Don't force it. Ruben was a nice accident. Well, I'm happy to be here with you again for another great recommendations episode.

It felt really weird last time. Ruben was a nice accident. Well, I'm happy to be here with you again for another great recommendations episode.

I felt really weird last time not hosting this episode.

I kind of confused my brain.

Yeah, because we had...

Just a little bit.

Brenna, so things got all...

We had to make special accommodations.

Exactly.

Exactly.

Well, here we are again, and honestly, you guys have really come through with the, like, strange recommendation requests.

Yeah, we skipped. I had, like, I had, normally I have kind of a hard time picking recommendations because I'm trying to find one that really speaks to me and, like, something I can actually recommend a book for. And this week, every single one I looked at was so abstract that I'm like, I could come up with something for that. Like I could totally do that. And they're all so weird and I love it. So it was, it was easy to pick. But at the same time, I feel like there's so many other ones that we could have picked that we'll have to get to next week and the week after it was awesome you guys really

came through with the unusual recommendation request we've got some weird ones so i'm excited to

jump in yeah honestly i'm ready to jump right in if you don't have anything else to add i'm so

excited to get into this first one let's do it let's go be awesome so this one this one spoke to me um this comes one. Let's do it. Let's go. It's going to be awesome. So this one, this one spoke to me.

This comes from, this one's great. It comes from Georgia. And she says,

Hi, guys, I'm looking for a book recommendation based on my new plant. Amazing. Just incredible.

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