Also, we're from the Midwest.

Every once in a while, we just get excited.

We just keep talking.

We just talk faster and it just happens.

Sorry.

Welcome to Book Talk, Et cetera.

I'm Tina from TBR, et cetera. And I'm Hannah

from Handpicked Books. This is a conversational podcast about books and more from two Midwest

mood readers who are easily distracted by new releases. And this week, we are sharing our January

books on the radar. If you enjoy listening, we'd love for you to follow us on Apple Podcasts or

your favorite podcast app. And if you have a quick minute, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts or sharing us on social media. It truly helps us connect with other book lovers. Hey everyone, it is the start of a brand new month, so we wanted to take the time to invite you to join us on Patreon. Our Patreon group is such a wonderful, supportive community of readers. And

if you've ever wanted your reading life to be a little bit more social, this is a great way to find

that connection. Becoming a patron is a great way to financially support our podcast, meet other

readers, get access to bonus content, and keep the main show ad free. For $5 a month, you get access to two bonus episodes

and one live event, as well as invites to our book talk, et cetera, Discord server,

Facebook group, and monthly community read. You also have access to everything we've created

since we've started, which is a ton. So in January, we have got some new things coming up for you. We are going to be

hosting two live reading sprints to help us kick off the New Year's Strong. We are going to offer an

episode of niche novels. We are also going to do a bonus episode called Bookstore Browse,

The Hand Sell. So our bookstore browse episode is going to be on the main show, and after those

episodes are recorded, we'll spend extra time with the booksellers to ask them for tailored

book recommendations based on our patrons reading requests, and Hannah and I will share some

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