Here we go. He's here. Okay. Okay.

Tina, do not make me laugh.

Okay. You got to laugh, you know.

Welcome to Book Talk, etc.

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.

We're easily distracted by new releases.

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Hey, Tina. Hey, Renee. How are you? I am good. Me too. I'm, you know, just living the dream,

trying to fit in all my reading with all my jobs and things. But, you know,

this is my, this is my happy place, is recording with you and reading and finding books to

read. So how's your reading been? My reading is recovering after COVID, which is good news.

Because it was, I felt that it was broken after the year of the locusts combined with COVID.

I really, for a few days, thought my reading was broken.

Now, I did read the Vegas book, the nonfiction James Patterson.

So I will clarify that by saying I thought my fiction reading was broken. But I'm coming back this week. Coming back. Sounds good. Well, I'm glad to hear that. Also, excited for you all to hear our interview. Andy was so interesting to talk to. We had a blast. And he was so, when we have guests, we don't have a lot of them but we'd like to invite them to

the book talk et cetera fold so he's got a loving lately and two of his latest reads and he's such an

interesting person and i am more motivated now than ever to just partner with bookshop.org and make

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