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I'm Tina from TBR, et cetera.

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Hey, Tina. Hi, Renee. How are you? I'm great. I'm very excited about this episode. Me too. And funny thing is, we are answering listener questions, which you'll tell us a little bit about here. But some of these questions, I don't even know your answer to. Right. So I'm excited. Some of them I'm like, I don't know if I have an answer. It was almost, I'm glad that we did this because it forced me to take a beat and say, okay, wait, let's do an assessment. It's been a year now officially of Book Talk, et cetera, which is so amazing. And I'm like, what are the answers to these questions? So I'm also excited to see what you think. Right. And so today's setup is going to be a little bit different. We put a call in for questions. So I'm also excited to see what you think. Right. And so today's setup is going to be a

little bit different. We put a call in for questions from you all, the listeners, and you definitely

came through with a lot of interesting questions. So thank you so much for that. I feel like we

could have taken an entire episode just on those questions. But of course, since talking about books is our

favorite thing to do, we are going to combine the two. Right. And since the weather is finally

getting warmer and we're heading into Memorial Day weekend, summer break, we wanted to make sure

that we're still bringing you some book recommendations.

And so our book picks today are our recent beach reads. I can't wait.

We'll chat, too, a little bit about like what makes a book a beach read? What are the books

you want to read when you're headed to the beach or headed to the pool? So I'm also curious about that because it sounds like you have a pretty specific thing you're looking for.

I do. I'm excited to tell you about that. Of course, you know me. It's very particular, I guess.

Whereas I'm like, I don't know, it has a boat on the cover. Oh, interesting. Okay. Yeah,

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