I always look so close up when we're recording and then like when you watch the YouTube video, it's not close up.

I know. You'll be able to see my nonsense piles next to me, but that's all right.

Yeah. I definitely have them too. Welcome to Book Talk, Etcetera, a podcast bound to grow your TBR.

I'm Tina from TBR, et cetera.

And I'm Hannah from Handpicked Books.

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Hey Hannah. Hey, Tina. How's it going? Fine. How are you doing? Doing? Okay. The kids are home. Oh, so it begins. Yeah. Is this your first week with with them home during the day when you're

working? Yep. Her last day of school was yesterday. So today's our first full day. Nice. Mine was May like 11th or something. You've been at it for a minute. I'm like what on earth? It feels like the middle of summer to me and it's not, it's barely June. We have a busy weekend though. It's our oldest birthday party weekend. So I've got a lot to do for that. Setting up when I have like 25 year olds here. Something crazy. I don't know. We'll see. Fun. It will be fun. We will see how many folks show up because I'm like, I don't know, come one, come all. Everybody's invited. And then I'm like, what if they all come? That'll be really fun.

This just recently happened to a friend of mine. Really? Because she invited their whole school,

not the whole class, you know, class, which is like 20 kids. And they all came.

But I love it. I love it. I'm ready. I, you know, we're going to do pizzas. Jonathan's going to get a feel for how many people are there and then we'll order. So we should have a great time. But I will be doing a lot of audio booking this weekend as we lead up to that. I imagine. But I'm happy to share the books that we've read today. I have some really good ones, I think. I do. I do. Good. Yeah, yeah. I'm a little bit of a

mixed bag, but I'm excited to talk about each of them. Yes. All right. So we will start with

loving lately. And I have changed mine actually because I just discovered my loving lately Tuesday or

Wednesday. It was Wednesday because I went on my Instagram

story and I was like, I don't even know what on earth prompted me to do this, but I said,

hey, does anybody have a good way of tracking arcs? I need help, basically. I need help organizing

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