I want to know where you get your turtle next, but that's neither here nor there.

All right.

Tell me later.

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 about books and more from two Midwest mood readers who are

easily distracted by new releases. And today we're talking about wintry reads. We'll share something

that we've been loving lately, review our latest reads, and have book talk about books with

winter settings. If you enjoy listening, we'd love for you to follow us on Apple Podcasts or your

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Hey, Tina. Hey, Renee. How are you? Great. I'm feeling much better this week. Good. Glad to hear it.

It was a rough, it was a rough few days. Finally, yes. I know. I did end up having COVID on last week's Good. Glad to hear it. It was a rough few days. Finally. Yes. I know. I did end up having COVID.

On last week's episode, I said I had a head cold, which I was thinking that's what it was, because my first test was negative. And then two days later, it was not negative. So I did not, I did not bypass that along with many,

many other people. So, but I, I'm on the upswing. I feel a lot better. Good. I'm glad to hear that.

Yes. I feel fine. You know, it's late. It's like 816 central, which is, again, might as well

be midnight for this one. Well, it's, I kind of feel, it's late. It's kind of fun to record late. I'm like, I feel like, I don't know. It's just so strange. Like, I'm sitting in my closet late at night just talking to you. I know. All of a sudden, you know, all the listeners are going to hear it. I know. Well, when I was prepping and I was I was like oh gosh it's's almost nine o'clock. And then, and normally I'd be, I'd be getting my pajamas on and being tired. But then I was like, I get to go, I get to go talk to Tina for, like, I got to go talk about books for an hour. And then I automatically felt more energy.

Oh, good. Well, I feel the same. Yeah. I feel the same. I'm bringing the heat today. Let me tell you, I got some good picks for us today. I think I do too. I have found that I love wintry reads. I was not expecting it. We kind of just picked it, I think, because it made sense given the time of year. And we thought, okay, we'll find some cozy. We'll find some murder. And when I was doing research for this, I found so many books that I want to read.

So I might have a couple more weeks of wintry reads snuck in now and again.

Okay. All right. I do have some good ones that I'm bringing today.

But it took me a little while to decide what I was going to land on that I was enjoying. So I don't know. I had a little

harder time and I don't know why because I like winter reads. I like reading this type of book

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