Oh my gosh, you're wearing your indie bookstore shirt.

Of course.

I just realized that.

That is so cute.

Of course.

I am not, but I am wearing my Chicago sweatshirt.

I feel it.

I feel it.

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

I'm Tina from TBR, et cetera.

And I'm Hannah from Handpicked Books.

This is a conversational podcast about books and more from two Midwest mood readers

who are easily distracted by new releases.

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Hey, Hannah. Hey, Tina. How's it going? Good. Doing fine. You know, I can't complain. Doing fine over here, too. I'm excited to chat about indie bookstores. I am too. I got in a real rabbit hole this morning when I was prepping for this episode. And I'll talk about what I was up to. But it was a fun one to prepare for and a lot of fun reminiscing because I was looking at different Indies I had been to and things like that. So I had a good time with it. Well, I'm excited to hear about it. I also had a fun time prepping for this episode and Indie Bookstore Day is just my favorite, it's just my favorite time of the year it's like a holiday i feel like every time and it's fun to talk about it and shop local

do you think you're going to do some shopping this weekend yeah i definitely will we'll go to our local

bookstore and it's fun now that my kids are a little bit older. Last year was a hot mess. My toddler was like full toddling. And he has never been a good traveler. He has always really struggled with car rides, with being out in public, with just, he's just not a great traveler,

whereas my oldest, my daughter, she's a great traveler.

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