My dream is so stupid for someone to be like, oh, I love that podcast. I'm going to like, I am the podcast.

I am. It's me. It's me. It's me. I'm one half of it.

Welcome to Book Talk, Et cetera, a podcast bound to grow your TVR. I'm Tina and I'm Renee.

And this is a conversational podcast about books and more from two Midwest mood readers. We're easily distracted by new releases. And today, we're talking about literary book awards.

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find us. I have a couple quick announcements for you at the top of the show. First of all,

thank you so much for your purchases through our merch store. It was fun to make, but seeing you all

get them in the mail and sending us photos of you wearing them has been

like such a joy. So fun. I'm currently wearing one of our crew necks and I feel like I'm just

going to alternate between the three sweatshirts that I ordered. But a quick plug, if you haven't got your

merch yet or if you want to grab some more things from November 15th through the 20th, you'll get

20% off your order.

So we will, of course, share the link in our show notes here.

So take a look.

We've got a ton of different options, and I've added a new white logo version of the flower

so it can show up on more colored items.

So if you haven't yet, check out our shop.

Also, quick reminder that we will not have

an new episode out next week on November 22nd. We're taking a break, our first break,

in literally a full year. So we need it. One year. And if you feel like you're going to miss

us, we do invite you to join our Patreon for $5 a month.

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