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! Oh, man. So, as you guys can tell, this is another weird, reverse, time warp kind of week where I'm recording this, I'm the hosting this episode. And that is because, like we've mentioned, we have another guest episode coming up. We just recorded next week's episode with AS King, author, and friend of the podcast. And my God, we were so happy to have her on the podcast.

We had so much fun recording it. You guys are going to love this episode. It was so good. It was so good. It was so great. And she recommends so many cool sounding books that we would have never, ever thought to read. So it's just very cool. And I really look forward to everyone hearing that because it's one of my favorite episodes that we've recorded recently. I agree.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Write it in your calendars, ladies and gentlemen.

You must listen to the next

episode. Next Sunday. Very big deal. So, yes, since we just recorded that episode, here we are now

recording our updates episode. And yeah, we've got kind of a crazy book haul situation going on so we're going

to save that for the end of the episode because it's going to take up most of the episode so by end

of the episode I mean the bulk of the episode if you will recall last week I asked really and if she

just wants to officially cancel her book buying ban and she was like like, yeah, that's probably for the best.

And then she texted me yesterday.

She's like, I bought, I forget, 11, 15 books.

It was 11, and that was just yesterday.

I do have more.

And there's more that haven't arrived yet.

That's the dark side of the story is that I think I have like six or seven more on the way.

Yeah. So we were like, today we'll just be a book hall. And that's fine. That'll be fun. I'm excited. Yeah. It's a big, big old book hall that is interesting, to say the least. So before we jump into all that, have you finished any books? Yes. Okay. Well, no. Wait. I said yes, but I lied. I thought you'd ask me if I'm currently reading or like if I've started anything. I don't think I have finished anything. I'm like

racking my brains and I feel like if I had finished something, it would occur to me. No, I don't

think I have. I've been, I don't know. I actually, I don't know if the podcast wants to hear my

existential woes, but I'm like sick of myself. I'm like sick of myself for spending so much

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