I LOVED THE EPISODE!! Fun fact, i think Ariel is up to something regarding book sizes that fit in your palm and bag because the japanese book editions have something called bunko edition which is exactly that, small editions people can read on the go!

Thanks for a fabulous year! This year (the 2025 reading year), instead of bookmarks, I'm doing a Patreon sub! I'm looking forward to another great year of reading!!!

Great, such a fun video! Parnassus on Wheels is a mashed potato book for me too. I want to read it early next year.

This was such a great Books Unbound year. I can't wait for your goals episode because I just relistened to last year's goals episode and it was wild and lovely to know how you have done. Favourite books unbound moments for me this year: every part of the Bisset Books book truck journey 🧡 peach hair 🧡 getting my book recommendation read out by Ariel for The Book of Tea 🧡 Anne of Green Gables PEI event 🧡 Jane Austen festival 🧡 Raeleen and Ariel having opposite goals this year and being so invested in how you were both doing with them, and being so excited when Ariel reached a milestone and got a reward or Raeleen did other things like rollerskating or swimming and camping 🧡 Ariel's engagement episode 🧡 Raeleen's sabbath celebrations and daisy cardigan (which I'm now making one of for myself) 🧡 just all the lovely cosiness and friendship and appreciation for the lovely things in life that you guys promote every time you let us hang out with you both in your podcast 🧡

Thank you so much for the spreadsheet template!

An American Marriage....sooooo gooood!

I have an entire Pinterest board dedicated to books. And it super helps me not buy books just to buy books.

Fun to hear your wrap up! Proud that I persuaded my local book club (ladies, most in their early 60s) to read "Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century" and they liked it! I'd not read it yet either and went based on Raeleen's review. It was a good collection of stories.

Last year I bought a reading spreadsheet from Etsy, because... I really wanted a cool looking spreadsheet. But it was so convoluted and tracked so many things I never pay attention to, that... I stopped updating it in February 😅 So next year I'll try to simplify and go very idiosyncratic with my lists. Maybe just go back to a reading journal and just create a spreadsheet in december for the graphics?

revisiting this episode of the podcast in anticipation for the 2025 reading goals episode

Raeleen you forgot that you did read a chef memoir! Eat a Peach!

Books Unbound is my favourite podcast ❤ thank you for another great year! 💚 Looking forward to future episodes, as always 😊

This is so much fun! I love Raeleen's hair 💚. I loved seeing the favorite books. It really is interesting to see how all the stats play out. 😊📚🏆🌟

If you want another book about the funeral industry, all the living and the dead features interviews with folks in different jobs relating to the funeral industry. Each chapter focuses on a different job and also includes wonderful reflections. Loved it!

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Raeleen caused me to read The God of the Woods, which led me to read The Unseen World by the same author, which is my favorite book of the year, and Liz Moore is one of my favorite authors now!! Also Ariel caused me to read Lucy Worsley’s 3 biographies about Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, and Queen Victoria, which were some of my favorites also! Love this podcast so much and all the recs are great ❤

Just want to add: I see a lot of cozy fantasy, more than before…I think you were spot on!

Do you guys share your spreadsheets at all for community members to use for themselves? I would love to keep track this year

This is genuinely such a special marker of the end of the year for me that I couldn’t watch it when it came out - saved it for a special coffee moment in the morning so I could really savor it!

Ariel, at about 50:30 into the video you were looking for a one last Raeleen quotation, but you stopped in the middle of the word "quotat-" My brain filled in "quotato". 😂 🥔

I love this!! Congratulations on your reading breakdown video!! I love stats!

Listening to the podcast but had to take a peek at the video to see Rae-green’s hair. Love it and enjoying the podcast, as usual!

Proust is great.

I'm similar to Raeleen, I don't "officially" set 100 books but it's there in my mind, but the gratifying feeling lasts for about 5 seconds before I'm over it and wonder why I put all that pressure on myself lol

I just love you guys thank you for another great year

This talk of Tove Jannsen reminds me that I went to a bookstore and found a book by a woman named Tove, and had recalled how much Ariel enjoyed Tove Jannsen. I mistakenly thought this Tove was the same Tove and bought the books. Read it, and LOVED it, only to find out she's a different Tove. The book was Childhood by Tove Ditlevsen, and will now be reading more of her work. A mistaken recommendation gone right!!

I had already planned to start my Anna Karenina reread as soon as this episode ended and I'm so hype to hear Raeleen finished and enjoyed it :D I'm planning on listening to the Tipsy Tolstoy episodes about each part in tandem on this reread as recommended by @CarolynMarieReads whose favourite book of all time is Anna Karenina, so maybe that might be a good listen for you Raeleen if youre wanting more background info

Love the green much more than the peach!

Raeleen, the new bookshelves are looking great!!!

Totally recommend American Psycho as an audiobook

Let it be known that when Ariel announced she read 70 books this year, I clapped 😂

I really don’t like to reread books.

Raeleen's green hair brings out her eyes so much!

Very excited for this (and the upcoming episodes!) 😊❤😊❤ best time of the year!

Ariel, your best memories of the year reminded me just how much you packed in the last 12 months! No wonder you are exhausted! Hats off to you.

I've got a question: do you annotate your books?!? I'd love a whole episode on this if there isn't one yet

Unrelated to books but... Ariel, the nail technician did such a great job with your nails! I do nails myself and I know that it's difficult to correct nails that tend to grow downwards (curl down). From what I can see, your nail lady did it perfectly ❤

Rae-green!!!!!

There's a book, "What makes us human? An artificial intelligence answers life's biggest questions" by GPT-3, Iain Thomas and Jasmine Wang that was published in 2022 I think. Seems that it's just a bunch of mis-quotes and quasi-philosophical q&a, though it is interesting as a cultural artefact.

Book Nerds Unite!

Omg guys!! What if it’s gonna be an Ai and human romance novel like two sides of the love story based on ~a real experience~

Great episode!! I’m so glad I found your podcast years back! Happy New Book Year!!

You should have Max as a guest on the podcast!

I think the coming year I'll switch from tracking my reading on a website to using a spreadsheet... the specific stats you're able to come up with is just too fun!

I love the mermaid hair Raeleen! I'm trying to still read, but my brain, I think, also needs a break because nothing is really engaging me, which is a shame cause I got library books, lol.

Master and Margarita was my favorite book of the year, so let this serve as motivation for Raeleen to conquer it in 2025!! It's sooooo good, and the car is by far one of the best characters.

Love these end of the year stats episodes and I look forward to them every year! I'm not a maths girlie, but I love book stats! I track my reading on the Storygraph and their charts are great!

The joy I feel at seeing this episode uploaded 🫶🏻 thanks guys!!

also I know Ariel says she’s read all of moshfegh BUT did you read “my new novel” by moshfegh from Gagosian’s Picture Books, an imprint created by emma cline?