You can manipulate me, but I want to be so emotionally invested, I don't notice it.

Yes.

Right?

Can we put that on a T-shirt?

Oh, that's terrible.

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find us. Hey, Tina. Hey, Renee. How are you? I'm good. I'm really good. I'm excited to

talk about our books today. I learned a lot about my reading this week. Did you? Yeah,

my reading preferences. Okay. This was a very introspective reading week for me. Oh, I kind of like that.

Okay. I was a little bummed at first, a little bummed about a couple things, but I've

turned it around. And I, it's actually been a really productive reading week. And you're using it as a

learning experience. Yes. Okay. Mine, I just, for me, inertia is key. And this is true for a lot of

things in life. Like if I'm going to the gym, I have to go three times a week. Otherwise, I will never go. If I'm reading, I have to keep multiple books going or else it'll be really hard for me to keep reading. Like when we had the illness in our house, I didn't read for a few days. And it was hard for me to, get back into the groove of it. So that is my takeaway. It's like, all right, as long as I just keep

swimming, as long as I just keep going, then I can, you know, get everything in that I want to get in.

That's a great point. And it actually makes me think about our book talk topic today, which is specifically

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