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Books Unbound#296 - Why Ariel Isn't Buying Books AnymoreA book shopping story, a library adventure, and a TBR challenge!Links mentioned:Strange Adventures Books: https://www.instagram.com/strangeadvhfx/Support The Podcast:Join our patreon and become a Dust Jacket! patreon.com/booksunboundSign up to the bookmark subscription! https://store.dftba.com/products/books-unbound-bookmark-subscriptionOur beautiful merch: https://store.dftba.com/collections/books-unboundAriel's T-shirt: https://store.dftba.com/collections/bissett-books/products/im-thinking-about-books-t-shirtFollow us on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/books_unbound/...2025-06-231h 02Books Unbound#288 - Ariel Visited the ACTUAL Animal Farm In England!!!Ariel went on a big trip to the UK and has a lot of literary adventures to share and Raeleen has been really using her zoo year pass!Links mentioned:Music to Read To EP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OwlRjoSaDASwimming Book Vlog: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-video-of-126903107Support The Podcast:Sign up to the bookmark subscription! https://store.dftba.com/products/books-unbound-bookmark-subscriptionOur beautiful merch: https://store.dftba.com/collections/books-unboundAriel's T-shirt: https://store.dftba...2025-04-281h 19Books Unbound#284 - Ariel Abandons Everything To Read Orwell (hehe)Raeleen finishes one book and Ariel makes an important bookish pivot!Trailers mentioned:Lilo & Stitch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWqJifMMgZEFreakier Friday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7YJj6iO2QYPride and Prejudice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErsieSon5BMSupport The Podcast:Sign up to the bookmark subscription! https://store.dftba.com/products/books-unbound-bookmark-subscriptionOur beautiful merch: https://store.dftba.com/collections/books-unboundAriel's T-shirt: https://store.dftba.com/collections/bissett-books/produc...2025-03-2453 minBooks Unbound#279 - How Many Books Can Ariel Read At Once??Two new reviews, a handful of currently reads, and no new books?!Links Mentioned:New Mini Book Stamp!!! https://store.dftba.com/products/mini-book-stampSupport The Podcast:Sign up to the bookmark subscription! https://store.dftba.com/products/books-unbound-bookmark-subscriptionOur beautiful merch: https://store.dftba.com/collections/books-unboundAriel's T-shirt: https://store.dftba.com/collections/bissett-books/products/im-thinking-about-books-t-shirtJoin our patreon and become a Dust Jacket! patreon.com/booksunboundFollow us on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/books...2025-02-1057 minBooks Unbound#269 - Ariel Is Running The Podcast Alone!!It's Ariel's first ever solo episode! Raeleen is moving so Ariel is doing a variety show!
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Ariel's appearance on The End of the World Podcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/C3iO5qFtutl/
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Manacled (the fan fiction Raeleen is reading): https://senlinyuwrites.wixsite.com/fanfi...2024-03-041h 14
Books Unbound#106 - What Is The Book Supply Shortage All About?!We did a cute buddy read of Mooncakes while on a video call a week ago and now it's time to tell you all what we thought! Ariel also has a book haul, Raeleen has started a really spooky book, and we have some interesting book supply shortage information!
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A special thanks to...2021-10-1758 minBooks Unbound#104 - Ariel's Birthday and (Weirdly) Locomotives!IT'S A BIRTHDAY EPISODE! Ariel is turning 27 so she made a quiz (I couldn't help myself), opens presents from Raeleen, locomotives are discussed... it goes a bit off the rails.
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A special thanks to our Gold Foil Team on Patreon: Lydia Gappa, Kate, Mareike, Lotus Luo, Nicole, Luna, Charlie, Liz, and Manogni!2021-10-031h 29Books Unbound#103 - Our Big City Book HaulRaeleen and Ariel went to the big city! Also other cities! And they bought many books! Here are their tales!
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A special thanks to our Gold Foil Team on Patreon: Lydia Gappa, Kate, Mareike, Lotus Luo, Nicole, Luna, Charlie, Liz, and Manogni!2021-09-2647 minBooks Unbound#100 - OUR HUNDREDTH EPISODE REUNION SPECTACULAR!We've reunited to celebrate making 100 episodes! How has the time flown!? We've been making our beloved Books Unbound for two years now (and as we realize when recording, we've known each other for 10 years this September!) and were celebrating the fun with some exciting updates, a special book haul, and a big Q&A, while Raeleen visits Ariel in Nova Scotia!
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Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on Patreon at patreon...2021-09-121h 34Books Unbound#99 - Disappointing Buddy Read??We did a buddy read this week and things didn’t go as hoped… but we also read other books and, of course, bought some new ones. Plus Ariel gets a pardon from the Queen!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2021-09-051h 06Books Unbound#97 - Ariel Got a First Edition Animal Farm?! (And Also Met A Pug)A dream has come true! But we also find out how many books Raeleen has purchased this year (take a guess!) and hear about a dog Ariel met at a yardsale. Ariel’s favourite restaurant in Toronto: Pho Xe Lua, https://www.phoxelua.ca/
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A special thanks to our Gold Foil Team on Patreon: Nic...2021-08-2247 minBooks Unbound#95 - Raeleen Reads 3 Disappointing Books And Ariel Finds THE PERFECT BOOK?Ariel finds the perfect book at a bookstore and Raeleen reads three disappointing books in a row!
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A special thanks t...2021-08-081h 00Books Unbound#94 - OUR BIGGEST BOOK HAUL YET!Ariel visited the big city and BOUGHT MANY BOOKS so we’re doing a dedicated book haul episode!!
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A special tha...2021-08-0143 minBooks Unbound#93 - Ariel Blurbed A Book! And A Buddy Read Happened!Ariel's dream of blurbing a book came true! And Raeleen and Ariel buddy read Wild!
Buy our mug! Limited time only! https://store.dftba.com/collections/books-unbound Check out our new special offer on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/booksunbound Book Club details: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18177294076187199/ Book Club Discord: https://discord.gg/pXCvAQSMxA
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A special thanks to our Gold Foil Team...2021-07-261h 10Books Unbound#91 - BIG NEWS! EEE! And Ariel Got A Library Card!BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS! New books! Failed challenges! We've got it all! *Note: there are a few minutes of annoying static in Raeleen's audio but it gets fully resolved! 2021-07-111h 00Books Unbound#90 - Books We Disagree On!A discussion about what books we disagree on gets out of hand, we try to find books that feel like water colours, we pick out books where cities are central to the story, and we try and pick a book that would make a good cross stitch design or graphic novel!
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Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon...2021-07-0444 minBooks Unbound#89 - We Accidentally Bought The Same Book!This is a good one, folks! We discover we bought the same book, we accomplish our TBR challenge, Raeleen fails her hardcover challenge and I (Ariel) have to pick her next read, and I have a dumb mug idea live on the podcast (let us know on Instagram if you'd buy it!!).
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A special thanks to our Gold Foil Team on Patreon: Nicole...2021-06-271h 05Books Unbound#88 - Books to Music Adaptations?! WITH MAX OF WELLDONEBOOKS!We got to hang out with the lovely Max of WellDoneBooks and chatted about his favourite authors, favourite books, and dove into your recommendations asking for audiobooks, books by WOC, and picked books to match our favourite albums!
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A special thanks to our Gold Foil Team on Patreon: Nicole Hilder, Lydia Gappa, Kate, Mareike, and Lotus Luo!2021-06-201h 17Books Unbound#87 - Raeleen Has a Disappointing Reread 💔Coming to you FULLY VACCINATED!! Wooo! Vote in our upcoming book club: https://www.patreon.com/posts/our-next-book-52466533
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A special thanks to our Gold Foil Team on Patreon: Nicole Hilder, Lydia Gappa, Kate, Mareike, and Lotus Luo!2021-06-1344 minBooks Unbound#86 - Surrealist Books WITH A.S. KING!A dream come true! We get to chat books and reading with our long-time favourite: AS King! Books about shy characters? Books for when you can't sleep? Surrealist fiction? We've got you covered!
Find AS King:
Her website: https://www.as-king.com}
Her new book Switch: https://www.as-king.com/books
Her instagram: https://www.instagram.com/as_king_/
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A special...2021-06-061h 01Books Unbound#85 - Will We Ever Stop Hauling Books? (No!!!) GIANT BOOK HAUL!Raeleen officially ended her book buying ban and the results have been immense. We chat a bit about what we've read but let's admit it... this episode is a giant book haul!! WOOO!
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A special thanks to our Gold Foil Team on Patreon: Lydia Gappa, Kate, Mareike, and Lotus Luo!2021-05-3058 minBooks Unbound#84 - Eerie Dystopians WITH SANNE OF BOOKSANDQUILLS!We are so happy to have had Sanne, aka BooksandQuills, as our guest to help us recommend some dystopians, some great book to movie adaptations, and some books for tending to your cows. Check her out! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/booksandquills/ Her website: https://www.booksandquills.co.uk/links Her book: http://www.booksandquills.co.uk/book-club-journal
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A special thanks to our Gold Foil Team...2021-05-231h 02Books Unbound#83 - BOOK CLUB: Emma!Our first time reading a classic for our book club: Emma by Jane Austen! Without spoilers first, discussing the film, and then listening to your voice messages!
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A special thanks to our Gold Foil Team on Patreon: Lydia Gappa, Kate, Mareike, and Lotus Luo!2021-05-181h 27Books Unbound#82 - ARIEL'S SHELVES ARE FINALLY DONE!The time is finally here! Ariel's shelves are finished! Plus we got refunds from our car insurance and bought many books... a great week at B_U headquarters!
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A special thanks to our Gold Foil Team on Patreon: Lydia Gappa, Kate, Mareike, and Lotus Luo!2021-05-161h 14Books Unbound#81 - Are We Pretentious Readers??Do we read a lot of pretentious books? Can we recommend a book to a cat? A deep dive into our shelves will tell! Plus we recommend books for sparking creativity and books for summer nights!
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A special thanks to our Gold Foil Team on Patreon: Lydia Gappa, Kate, Mareike, and Lotus Luo!2021-05-0943 minBooks Unbound#80 - Ariel is Becoming a Carpenter?? Bookshelf Update!Raeleen went to another thrift store, Ariel got some books in the mail... and Ariel goes on a long speech about carpentry 🙈
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2021-05-021h 01Books Unbound#79 - How Do We Feel About Book Awards?Are you looking for a book with an unsatisfactory ending? Have you thought about what your “Imperial Affliction” book would be? Need a happy book? And our thoughts on book awards! It’s all here!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2021-04-2545 minBooks Unbound#78 - Raeleen Can’t Stop Thrifting Books!Raeleen just can’t resist those 50% thrift books! Ariel reads some poems!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2021-04-1852 minBooks Unbound#77 - Books for Lo-fi Tokyo Nights 🌃 and Books for Plants! 🪴🌱Things spiral as we record late into the night answering your recommendation requests. Books for a frilly plant, books based on our favourite foods, lofi Tokyo night reads, and books for a wide open sky! Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2021-04-1140 minBooks Unbound#76 - Midnight Reading Slumber Party!!!Recorded late at night! Things get a little wacky! Raeleen has a tale to tell, Ariel almost cries, we haul many books, we pick our hardcover punishment, and more!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2021-04-041h 02Books Unbound#75 - What Scorpios Like To Read WITH BRENNA THUMMLER!Brenna Thummler, official friend of the podcast, joins us to celebrate the release of her new book Delicates (out now!) and to help us answer horoscope book recommendations, a perfect book for an emotional song, and we all discuss our favourite graphic novels!
Brenna Thummler: https://instagram.com/brennathummler
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2021-03-2857 minBooks Unbound#74 - An Existential Crisis About Bookshelves!Ariel is working away on her bookshelves, Raeleen destroyed a book, and neither of us finished much this week??
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2021-03-2844 minBooks Unbound#73 - Is Shakespeare Good?????Reading Slumps! Shakespeare! Books for commuting! Cozy reads!
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Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2021-02-2840 minBooks Unbound#70 - Raeleen's Car Is ALIVE!!!After we accidentally start off by doing a virtual farm update... Raeleen tells the tale of her car! And then we finally jump in to the books, both great and not so great, that we've read and are reading this week!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2021-02-2138 minBooks Unbound#69 - Reading Poems and Picking Books For Them!Basing books off of favourite poems, immigrants coming to the US/Canada, getting into adult literary fiction, and books with quick chapters for a pregnant friend (or anyone!). We've got you covered!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2021-02-1441 minBooks Unbound#68 - Accidentally Giant Book Hauls? And Chess Books! ♟We read a lot!! And bought a lot!! It's a big week!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2021-02-0759 minBooks Unbound#67 - Books About The Sea! 🌊Want to read about the ocean? Need a book for your boyfriend? Maybe books from very strange perspectives? We’ve got you covered!!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2021-01-3152 minBooks Unbound#65 - Choosing Books For Our Favourite Video Game!We invest a lot of our life into a farming simulator game, may as well pick books for our fictional in-game spouses too! Plus audiobook narrators, non-fiction that has stuck with us, and new releases we're excited for!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2021-01-1740 minBooks Unbound#64 - What Do We Think About Reading Challenges?After our updates on our currently reading, we had a question about reading challenges and had a great conversation about our thoughts!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2021-01-1036 minBooks Unbound#63 - OUR 2021 READING RESOLUTIONS!What books do we NEED to read in 2021? Most anticipated releases? Raeleen is doing a book buying ban? And we share some new podcast updates! CMON, 2021, WE'RE READY!
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2021-01-0355 minBooks Unbound#62 - Surprise Christmas Book Haul!We thought it would be lovely to sit down for a bonus episode at the end of the year to share the books we got around the Christmas period!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-12-3127 minBooks Unbound#61 - OUR BIG 2020 WRAP UP!Our top 5 books! Best re-reads! Cat books! Books unfinished! Statistics! Mashed potato books conquered and created! It's our big 2020 wrap up!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-12-2757 minBooks Unbound#60 - Books To Read While Being Tattooed!?One of our listeners is getting a tattoo and needs a very specific type of book! Plus it’s time for Japanese fiction, middle grade graphic novels, books like the Goldfinch, and Orwell essays!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-12-2044 minBooks Unbound#59 - Penguin Buys Simon? Big Publishing News!Raeleen has books to haul and shares so many books she read! Ariel has lots of book news including some big information: Penguin is buying Simon & Schuster.. what does that mean for books?
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-12-2052 minBooks Unbound#58 - BOOK CLUB: Before the Coffee Gets Cold!We loved this one! It's time to talk about, without spoilers first and then diving into them part way through, about our last book club of 2020! Thanks to everyone who sent in a clip!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-12-1743 minBooks Unbound#57 - Raeleen is Engaged!!!!Our chattiest episode ever! We had a lot to update you on and because of Ariel’s move she hadn’t read much so we decided to do a more chatty episode (with a few books mentioned, for good measure)!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-12-0639 minBooks Unbound#56 - BOOK CLUB: Dig!Our third book club episode featuring voice clips from YOU!! In this book club episode we discuss Dig by AS King.
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-11-3050 minBooks Unbound#55 - Where To Start With Fantasy!Answering recommendations from our listeners! Books about characters escaping isolation? Romance with good character development? Raeleen shares where to start with fantasy and Ariel has a very specific recommendation for a book like the movie “We Bought A Zoo”!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-11-2234 minBooks Unbound#54 - Raeleen Is An Overachiever and Ariel Has More Secret Graphic NovelsThis update episode is full of graphic novels and a lot of book news! As always, Raeleen has some new books to share and we’re both excited to share our new merch!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-11-1538 minBooks Unbound#53 - The Strangest Books We've Ever ReadDo you need a Goodreads goal booster? Uncommon retellings? Re-readable books? Or want to hear about the weirdest books you've read? This is the episode for you!!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-11-0847 minBooks Unbound#52 - Ariel Gives Raeleen A Bunch of BooksThis is a big one: a plant adoption tale, we announce our new book club book, many books are hauled, Ariel reveals she secretly read a graphic novel many months ago, and Raeleen shares one of the most beautiful covers we've ever had.
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-11-0155 minBooks Unbound#51 - Times We've Met Book Celebrities!One of our listeners asked us to share our book celebrity memories! We had a blast answering these! We also recommend graphic novel adaptations, books with mentors, and books for people who love YA!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-10-2551 minBooks Unbound#50 - Fugitive Tales and Farm Stories!It's time for a new reverse recommendations! Before our weekly reading update and a book haul, we ask for books about fugitives running away from the law and books that take place on farms!
Link to the spreadsheet (also available on our patreon): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10Zx1nasUNfO7Ses-wQGruDLrpTVKNkGb2Jgfz0b2bis/edit?usp=sharing
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-10-1850 minBooks Unbound#49 - Perfect Autumn Reads! 🍂Another round of answering your requests! This week Raeleen and Ariel find a Halloween/fall time book, a very low-stress book, short books, and audiobooks for moving!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-10-1133 minBooks Unbound#48 - It's Ariel's Birthday!Recorded on Ariel's birthday, it's time to catch up on our reading!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-10-0453 minBooks Unbound#47 - Books For The Reluctant ReaderJoin Ariel & Raeleen as they answer questions like: which books would they recommend to those who are trying to get into Graphic Novels but don't know the genre very well? Which book to screen adaptation makes the most sense for Ariel & Raeleen to act in? And more!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-09-2533 minBooks Unbound#46 - Ariel Officially DNF’s a Book!Raeleen is making serious progress with 1Q84, Ariel has started a biography, and both of them discuss Beck Albertalli’s piece on Medium!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-09-181h 05Books Unbound#45 - Where To Start With Stephen KingFocusing on recommendations, Ariel & Raeleen answer several different Dustjacket inquiries such as: Where to start with Stephen King, books with mixed race main characters, and books that reflect who you are as a person!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-09-1048 minBooks Unbound#44 - The Fabled ReturnAriel & Raeleen are back! Fresh off a month long no-internet retreat, Ariel and Raeleen get right back into things discussing what they've been reading, slight updates to the podcast format, performative reading and becoming free of it, and anything else that happened in August.
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-09-031h 05Books Unbound#43 - The Racing To Read Book Tag!Ariel & Raeleen drop by mid-Reading Rush to try their new Racing to Read book tag! Including prompts like: A book you read really quickly, favourite long books, and favourite books that had ups and downs, this episode covers tons of bookish areas!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-07-2326 minBooks Unbound#42 - Competitive Book ReadingWith the Reading Rush only a few days away, Ariel and Raeleen have books on the brain! Raeleen presents evidence in the groundbreaking theory that the best course of action for someone moving from YA to Adult Fiction lies in reading fiction that is about young characters! And as if that wasn't already enough, Ariel drops a bomb when coming clean about her disdain for musicals, and follows that shocking revelation by failing her first ever recommendation!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com...2020-07-2154 minBooks Unbound#41 - The One Where Ariel Tries Reading & WalkingAfter Ariel gets dizzy trying to read and walk at the same time, she ups the ante by reading out a few poems on the air. Meanwhile, Raeleen tries to recommend manga like Deathnote, and succeeds?! Interspersed with book hauls, book malls, and book WITHDRAWALS, this episode has it all!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-07-141h 15Books Unbound#40 - Book Hauls & Failed TBR'sRaeleen buys too many books, Ariel fails her TBR challenge (and considers quitting social media), and they both give recommendations for books that would make good boardgames, video games, and books that Miranda's husband might like!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-07-071h 23Books Unbound#39 - Classics and Getting Ready to Go OFFLINE!This is such a great episode with a NEW SEGMENT and talk about a NEW Goodreads! Ariel and Raeleen discuss nature books ( books taking place in the forest and near water), as well as classic literature and high school English experiences! Join Books Unbound as we go offline for the month of August! (but don't worry, the podcast will continue as normal!!)
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-06-301h 16Books Unbound#38 - Summer Books and Books NOT From the Perspective of Humans!Ariel and Raeleen discuss the books they associate with Summer and those sweet Summertime vibes as well as books told from a different kind of perspective!?
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-06-2357 minBooks Unbound#37 - Recommending Books that Have Been Recommended!A meta recommendation moment where Ariel and Raeleen talk about books that have been recommended to them in the past that they have loved, as well as recommending books by Black authors!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-06-1659 minBooks Unbound#36 - #blacklivesmatterPlease click here to learn more: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/
Raeleen and Ariel discuss the importance of the #blacklivesmatter movement and what they've been reading to try and educate themselves!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-06-091h 09Books Unbound#35 - Books That Are "Hideous to Look at But Great to Read!"Please click here to learn more: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/
Ariel and Raeleen recommend books that you shouldn't judge by their terrible covers and the books that they've most recently added to their 'Want to Read' shelf on Goodreads!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-06-021h 06Books Unbound#34 - Oatmeal Books and Dark Books WITH LITTLEBOOKOWL!An exciting guest episode with Caz from LittleBookOwl! Ariel, Raeleen, and Caz discuss books that are full of sweetness and substance as well as books with darkness and mystery inspired by an emergency room vibe! They all plan out a COSPLAY adventure together!!?
More Caz: https://www.youtube.com/LittleBookOwl
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-05-261h 00Books Unbound#33 - Reviewing AS King’s Favourite book WITH AS KING!In this special episode, Ariel sits down and discusses God Bless You Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut with the wonderful A.S. King!
Check out AS King: https://instagram.com/as_king_?igshid=ocji1ty4j6yc
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-05-221h 15Books Unbound#32 - Green Books and Books That Deserve a Second Chance!Ariel and Raeleen discuss books with the most beautiful green spines and books that they're so glad they read again despite not enjoying them the first time!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-05-1946 minBooks Unbound#31 - Books That Should Be Retold From Another Character's Perspective!Ariel and Raeleen discuss books that were popular on Booktube before 2016 and books, like Stephenie Meyer's upcoming novel, that they would like to read from the point of view of one of the other characters!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-05-121h 05Books Unbound#30 - Hard-Hitting Books and Books to Make You Ugly Cry!Soooo much emotion! Ariel and Raeleen have exciting book news about up-coming bookish things as well as heartbreaking book news, discussions about very emotional books, and the books that have made them cry the hardest!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-05-0557 minBooks Unbound#29 - BOOK CLUB: The Memory Police!Our second book club episode featuring voice clips from YOU!! In this book club episode we discuss The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-05-0155 minBooks Unbound#28 - It Comes in Threes!Ariel and Raeleen talk about how the Reading Rush went for them! They also discuss the best stand-alone novels that should become a tv series and which books would make great documentaries!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-04-2854 minBooks Unbound#27 - MORE Graphic Novels and Bedtime Books!Ciders and Bangs!! Ariel and Raeleen discuss their belated Reading Rush TBR piles, books that should become graphic novels, and late night tea candle books!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-04-2158 minBooks Unbound#26 - Books That Would Make Great Studio Ghibli Films!We bring you rants about The Hunger Games and The Memory Police. Ariel and Raeleen also discuss a great book about books, books that could be Ghibli films, and books that just make you feel good.
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-04-1441 minBooks Unbound#25 - Intense Topics and Plot Twists!Ariel and Raeleen talk about some books with intense topics, including mention of the movie Bombshell. But there's also lots of fun talk about plot twists, a new and exciting manga, and books with similarities to Twilight (but feminist)!!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-04-0756 minBooks Unbound#24 - The Animal Crossing Book Tag!Animal Crossing is here and Raeleen and Ariel are SO EXCITED. After discussing our islands and reviewing New Horizons, we had to answer these Animal Crossing book questions!
Questions found at: https://bookishthingsandtea.wordpress.com/2017/07/09/animal-crossing-book-tag-original-book-tag-sunday/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei1FFS7lF4E
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-04-0644 minBooks Unbound#23 - Graphic Novels and Casting Actresses in Books!Can there be too much Fall in one book!? Discussing lots of graphic novels and casting Keira Knightley and Saoirse Ronan as characters in books. Ariel also goes on rants about magic and Animal Crossing!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-03-3153 minBooks Unbound#22 - Great Audiobooks and Recommending Books We Haven't Read??Raeleen finishes a few books and Ariel has started a bunch of others... what's new?!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-03-2543 minBooks Unbound#21 - Reverse Recommendations and Books We Didn't Like (But You Might)!!We pick one of YOUR recommendations to read! Ariel goes on a rant about pronouncing a name and Raeleen talks about a play she probably will never see.. it's a good time!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-03-181h 03Books Unbound#20 - Addressing the Elephant WITH BOOKSANDLALA!Kayla from BooksandLala joins us! Ariel talks about her love for authors who address the elephant in their books! Everyone discusses books full of dialogue, translated books, and lots of Stephen King! Kayla asks for recommendations of short, weird books! Having Kayla on the podcast was so fun and we'll be dying to know how she feels about her book suggestions from Ariel and Raeleen!
More Kayla: https://www.youtube.com/booksandlala
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com...2020-03-101h 12Books Unbound#19 - Books You Desperately NEED People to Read!Ariel is extremely excited about Raeleen's new current read! Ariel and Raeleen discuss disappointing books, the books you never want to stop talking about, magical realism, and books from the 80s!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-03-0352 minBooks Unbound#18 - Boarding Schools and Big Cities!Introducing the idea of reverse recommendations! Ariel and Raeleen discuss book covers, books about schools both magical and abroad, and books set in New York City and Paris!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-02-2545 minBooks Unbound#17 - Library Book Nightmare and Raeleen's New Slogan!Ariel has a big conundrum at the library and Raeleen speaks the truest wisdom she has ever uttered. Raeleen also finally gets to share some manga recommendations, orphan characters, and isolation as a theme?
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-02-1854 minBooks Unbound#16 - Books That "Freak Us Out in an Exciting Way!"Ariel and Raeleen went on their first Books Unbound field trip and share all about it! They also discuss books that are safe for work and books with clever and mind-twisting concepts!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-02-1158 minBooks Unbound#15 - How to Get Out of a Reading Slump and "Your Name" Books!Book collections are mentioned along with great recommendations for getting right back into the swing of reading! Ariel and Raeleen also discuss books with a similar dream-like atmosphere and theme of separation as the movie "Your Name."
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-02-0457 minBooks Unbound#14 - Books That Make You Go "HMMM?" and Rare Stolen Books!!What books make you go "HMM?" just by listening to the synopsis? Are you looking for a book about a tight group of friends? Raeleen and Ariel have the books for you! We also discuss some crazy book news including some rare stolen books!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-01-2847 minBooks Unbound#13 - WOMEN! WOMEN! READ ALL ABOUT THEM!Accidentally we kept discussing women... but when is that ever a bad thing!? Raeleen discusses tidying and Ariel rants about the Oscars, it's a good old time!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests and see our book lists at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-01-2159 minBooks Unbound#12 - Introducing Book News and Books That Would Make Great Black & White Movies!Has Ariel already found her favourite book of the year!? In the first episode of 2020, we discuss supporting libraries, reading another George Orwell novel, black and white books and books that take place in bookish settings! Raeleen and Ariel take on a new segment: Book News!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-01-1447 minBooks Unbound#11 - Magical 2019 Wrap Up Extravaganza!To end off our first year of podcasting, Raeleen and Ariel decided to share their 2019 mashed potato books, favourites, book to movie adaptations, and more! Honestly one of the funniest episodes yet.
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2020-01-0444 minBooks Unbound#10 - BOOK CLUB: On Earth We're Briefly GorgeousOur first book club episode featuring voice clips from YOU!! In this book club episode we discuss On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound2019-12-2551 minBooks Unbound#9 - Xmas Books, Motivational Teachers, and Books to Read in One Sitting WITH STORIESFORCOFFEE!We have the wonderful Olivia from StoriesforCoffee in this episode! She launches another impassioned speech about 1984 from Ariel, Raeleen tries to make us all read a book she wishes more people picked up, and Ariel is still traumatized from an encounter with a mouse that happened right before recording this episode. It's a good one!
Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound
Check out Olivia! https://www.instagram.com/storiesforcoffee/
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