Give me my natural Belgronde and let me go in peace.

Welcome to Book Talk, Et cetera, a podcast bound to grow your TBR.

I'm Tina.

And I'm Renee.

And 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 our

favorite books of 2023. If you enjoy listening, we'd love for you to follow us on Apple Podcasts

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helps other book lovers find us. Hey, Tina. Hi, Renee. How are you? I'm great. I'm excited.

This is such a fun episode to prep for. Also, Renee. How are you? I'm great. I'm excited. This is such a fun episode to prep for. Also,

like most of our listeners will understand, we overthink everything when it comes to books.

And so I, it's taken me hours to prep for this episode, hours. Yeah. I'm excited. But then I don't know about you,

but once I finalized everything, I had this thought where I was like, wait, is this it?

How am I ever going to read this many good books again? No, I know, right? And time shows that we will. We do and we will.

I had a good time making this list, but I've known my top 10 for some time. I've been keeping a

note. That's kind of how I keep track of my TBR on my phone and I have a note with TBR on it.

And at the very bottom, I've been putting books that are contenders from my top 10.

The first time I just kind of thought about it, I had 10. Then I added one lately to make 11. And so I had to bump somebody.

But I'm pretty confident in mine. I'm very curious to see yours because as of yesterday, you did not know what you were going to pick for your top book of the year. Right. Once it came to me, it literally came to me. I decided, I mean,

it was in my, it was in my top 10. I'll tell you how I came to this. But once it came to me,

it was like a gigantic light bulb went off and I was like, how could it be anything other than this? Yeah. I don't know why I was even,

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