You could literally pay me $10,000 and I would not be able to say what you say.

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I'm Tina.

And I'm Renee. And this is a conversational podcast about your TBR. I'm Tina and I'm Renee,

and this is a conversational podcast about books and more from two Midwest mood readers who are easily distracted by new releases.

And today, we're talking about the new releases that we've recently read.

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Hey, Tina.

Hey, Renee. How are you?

I'm good, excited for another round of easily distracted by new releases.

And I will say, I'm tracking with every single month having a hard time with this.

Really? Yeah.

What is it?

I love new releases. But but man, some of them sound better on paper

than I, you know, what I dive into and get like it just doesn't, a lot of them don't pull me in.

And then, you know, I move them aside and I've got to keep on going. It feels like a struggle, but then

once I land on something, I'm good. And I'm wondering if it's because most of these are not,

you know, heavily vetted yet. I was just going to say that for a lot of these, we're kind of

relying on the publishers what they're saying in the early readers, which we all know. Sometimes it's not, when I say early readers, I mean the people that are like on the back of the book saying, this was unput-downable or what a takedown.

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