I think you start, right?

Is that how this go?

Am I waiting?

No, no.

I'm just waiting for myself.

Here we go.

Welcome to Book Talk, et cetera, a podcast found to grow your TBR. I'm Tina from TBR

and I'm Hannah from Handpicked Books. 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 new releases that we've recently read.

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Hi, Hannah. How are you?

I am good. I'm glad that we got a chance to chit-chat quite a bit before the show.

I'm nice and warm.

Yeah, it always helps us feel nice and, I was going to say lubricated.

I was going to say lubricated, but I can't say that.

Yeah, that's why I'm a pivoted. Nice and ready. Nice and ready. Yeah, no, I'm ready to chat. I have some good books today. You know, new release episodes sort of feel like a brain break because I don't have to think too hard. At least for me, I'm always

sort of on the cusp of what's coming out. And it feels nice to be like, all right, go ahead. Read whatever it is that's been like calling to you. And it's not for a particular topic. It's just sort of a free read week. Agreed. And I'm always wanting to stay on the pulse with what's coming out anyway. And I can pick whatever genre I'm feeling.

I feel like it's a great way for us to kind of have like a loosely planned TBR, which is my

favorite, like some kind of loose, you know, idea that narrows it down a little bit. But then also

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