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

I'm Tina from TBR, et cetera.

And I'm Hannah from Hand-Picked Books.

This is a conversational podcast about books and more from two Midwest, mood readers who are easily distracted by new releases. And today, we are leaning into new releases and discussing a few that we've read.

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truly helps us connect with other book lovers. Hey, Anna. Hey, Tina. How are you? I'm all right. How

are you? I am doing good. We got to chat for a nice long while

before we hit record. It feels good. We, it feels good. We were planning the rest of our year

for the main show episodes. So we have a lot of fun topics. I love doing that. It's the best.

And now when we're done with this, we're going to go run and figure out which books we want to try for each specific topic. So stay tuned. I love how it's literally halfway through the year. And we're like, great. Let's plan the rest of it.

Well, it's so fun to plan and nerd out and I don't know. And that's showbiz. We have to plan ahead. I sure do. We got to know.

Got to know what we're going to be reading. I'm like two episodes ahead right now, maybe one and a half. And I feel mighty smug about it. That is such a good feeling. I know you can't relate. Sorry. No, that's okay. I actually do feel pretty caught up right now.

Oh, right.

Yeah, we had a couple weeks of some free reading.

So, yeah, I'm feeling pretty caught up. All right. Well, that's good. I'm like, now I'm like, well, how caught up am I? Like, really. I'm going to, you know, give away some today. So I'm only ahead by one. But that is totally fine because I have some exciting books to chat about. I liked all of them. Yay. That is so fun when you get to bring

books that you would recommend. I know. And it's, these ones are, I always have high hopes for

the new release episode, but they end up being the books that I read naturally. These are just ones that I like find myself easily gravitating toward. Like it's just a

part of how I read anyways to read so many new releases. So these ones are like very easy for me to

prep for your bread and butter. My bread and butter. So I'm going to transition into loving

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