Well, then I don't need to hit record.

Okay.

No.

Well, now I'm nervous.

Hit it anyway.

Welcome to Book Talk, Et cetera.

I'm Tina from TBR, et cetera.

And I'm Renee from its Book Talk. This is a conversational podcast grow your TBR. I'm Tina from TBR, et cetera. And I'm Renee from its book talk.

This is a conversational podcast about books and more from two Midwest mood readers who are easily distracted by new releases. Today we're taking you around the world with books.

We'll share something that we've been loving lately, review our latest read, and have book talk

about books that are set around

the world. We'll wrap things up with our shelf edition, a book that we've added to our own

TVR list. We're a new podcast, so if you like what you hear, we'd love for you to follow us on

iTunes or wherever you listen to your podcast. Hey, Tina. Hello. How's it going? It's going great. Excellent. I know it's really hot.

Despite the heat and humidity that's going. And for people with naturally curly hair like me,

it's not fun. No. You've got to do a lot to combat those curls. Oh, no. I just end up wearing a hat

or else scaring people. I saw somebody posted something on

Instagram about a picture of like, what, me? Like, the humidity's not bothering me and their hair was

like. Right, right. Like out to hear. Like, oh yeah, that looks familiar. Yeah, right. I think we're

getting a break. But anyway, who cares? As long as it's not raining. I can't do, I can't have the rain. We've had so much rain here, like for the last week. I feel like it's been raining every day. Yeah, not helpful. How are you? I am good. I am good. I am excited about today's episode. And this one was your idea. And I'm very glad you brought it. And it really made me take a look at

my reading to see, okay, what books have I read that have been set outside of the U.S.? And I definitely

have worked to do. I want to work on reading more books that are not set in the U.S. So I was glad that

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