What a perfect day for the zoo.

Is it sunny?

Oh, yeah.

78.

Sunny.

Midwest weather update.

Welcome to Book Talk, Et cetera, a podcast bound to grow your TBR.

I'm Tina from TBR, et cetera.

And I'm Renee from its booktalk.

This is a conversational podcast about books and more from two Midwest mood readers

who are easily distracted by new releases.

And today, we're giving you an advanced preview of some of our anticipated summer reads. We'll share something

that we've been loving lately, review our latest reads, and share upcoming releases we've recently read.

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Hey, Tina. Hi, Renee. How are you? I'm good. I'm great. The sun is shining. And I'm always excited to sit down and talk books with you. But I am especially excited for today's episode. I love doing these, like picking some advanced copies and deciding

which ones are going to make the list that we can bring and hopefully put on everyone's

radar super early. Yes. And mine are just, I was a singular of a singular mindset today.

They are all three, actually all four

of the books I'm bringing today are kind of thriller mystery. So apologies in advance. But like,

that's my mood. That's the summer. That's pretty much where I want to stay in summer is like,

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