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Welcome to Book Talk, Etc, a podcast found to grow your TBR.

I'm Tina from TBR, et cetera.

And I'm Hannah from handpicked books.

And this is a conversational podcast about books and more from two Midwest, mood readers,

or easily distracted by new releases. And today, we are sharing our best books of the year so far.

If you enjoy listening, we'd love for you to follow us on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app.

And if you have a quick minute, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts or sharing us on social media.

It truly helps us connect with other book lovers.

Hey, everyone. It is the start of a new month. We wanted to take the time to invite you to join us on Patreon.

Patreon is an online membership platform that gives you a way to financially support our podcast. And for $5 a month, you get access to

all of our bonus content. It's bonus content, but it's also such a wonderful, supportive

community of readers. And I feel like if you've ever wanted your reading to be more of a social

experience, this is a great way to find that connection. For $5 a month, you get access to two

bonus episodes and one recorded event and invites to our BTE Discord server and Facebook

group. You will also have access to everything we have created since we've started, which is a

ton, and we host a monthly community read in our Discord, which is like a text-based book club

that feels like a big group chat without the pressure of being on Zoom. We have a very exciting

month plan. Hannah and I've been hard at work. Our bonus episode will be our What's in the Mailbag,

and our second bonus episode will be a topic we've never done before, so you don't have to wait and see. Our bookstore

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