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Hey, Tina. Hi, Renee. How are you? Great. Very excited to get started. I was just putting my books in

order. Well, obviously, latest read is going to go first. But I was thinking about my star rating spectrum. Oh, okay. So I'll let you know in the listeners as a little teaser. I go from I have a two star all the way up to a five star. Okay. I have a five star latest read and then two

books that are like an easy 4.5, maybe more depending. So like I have all solid recommendations

today, which is always exciting. Yeah. And I think I would give one of mine a 3.5, but it's such a good

conversation book. Right. So I can't decide if in my mind, I think that elevates it for sure. But, you know, I will have to talk about that. Yeah. What kept it from being higher. And you're right, though. I don't mind a book club book that's polarizing. Like I kind of enjoy that sometimes where it's like some people loved it. Some people were like, I hated it. And then it gives something to talk about, right? Oh, for sure. Yeah. This is going to be

interesting. I like the book club conversation. Oh, me too. All right. Well, let's jump into

Loving Lately. All right. Well, I will start us off. I'm still in a summer loving lately mindset

after last week. This week week I want to bring my summer

daily face moisturizer, which is algenist, splash, absolute hydration, replenishing

emulsion. It's a very long title for a very simple face moisturizer. I love this. I switch immediately when the weather

starts to get warm. I switch to this because it's very lightweight, but I have dry skin.

So it hits the sweet spot between lightweight, not greasy, but it's filled with vitamins and moisturizing agents. And I

absolutely love it. Algenist is a vegan company. You don't see them around a lot, but I really like

their products. I've tried a lot of their products. I'll bring another one later on because

I have a couple products from them that are my absolute favorites. And here's probably why I did

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