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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 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 are so excited to share our favorites of 2021 episode.

We'll share something that we've been loving lately, review our latest read, and share the 10 books that made our top reads of 2021.

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This month's bonus episode will include

even more Best of 2021 chat, where we'll dig deeper into our reading year and talk about books

that didn't quite make the cut. We might even give some awards of our own. And with that,

let's get into the show. Hi, Renee. Hi, how are you?

Good. I'm ready. I'm delighted. These are my favorite things about the end of the year is all of the end of the year favorites lists.

For sure. This was so much fun to put together, but also really hard because I kept wanting to message you and talk and talk and talk and talk. And we had to save it for today. And really, I was kind of surprised and I'll get into this a little bit later. But I was surprised at how easy it was for me to put this together, which is completely opposite of what I thought when I was like the last couple weeks thinking, oh my gosh, how am I going to put this together? I'm never

going to be able to narrow it down. Turns out I could. And I did pretty quickly.

That's because you have some like, you were, she was DMing me. And she's like, yeah, I just read like, was it three or four, five star books in a row toward the end?

Yes. Yes. I'm like, girl. I'm jealous. I know. I know. I had a couple sneak in. I had one literally sneak in two days ago. So I had to rearrange. I knew it had to be there and I had to rearrange. And I felt

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