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

It's Ariel and me, Raylene.

Woo-hoo! In the house.

Here we are for our episode.

It's funny because Raylene, the last time we recorded, we were, it was like the

dead of night.

That's true.

I kind of forgot about that.

It was so long ago at this point that I just kind of blacked it out.

It's, uh, it was a very strange experience.

And now we're in the light of day with coffee instead of wine and sleeping pills.

To be fair, not the same person was having wine and sleeping pills.

Don't do that.

That's dark.

Well, here we are with our update episode.

I'm very excited to jump in.

I'm excited to hear what you've been reading.

I'm going to be honest.

I haven't been reading much.

I'm having like this crazy uphill battle or what that's not what I mean.

Uptilt.

Upturn.

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