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Okay. Welcome to Book Talk, Et cetera, a podcast bound to grow your TBR. I'm Tina from TBR

and I'm Renee from its booktot. 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 sharing our January 22 books on the radar.

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Hey, Tina. Hi, Renee. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. I'm, I can't believe we are winding down December. Last episode for December we're recording right now. It's crazy. I'm ready. Are you ready? Yeah, I am ready. I'm looking

forward to reading in the new year. We just, well, last week, we dropped our best of 2020, no,

best of 2021 books. And so it's been this weird thing where I'm in this space where I have a couple weeks of reading and I'm like, okay, I've already called what were my best books of 2021.

So I don't want to read anything too good, which sounds so dumb.

Of course.

Of course I picked up this book, just finished it.

It is definitely on my best of 2021 list. It might be like the top three,

maybe top two, maybe more. I don't know. It was so good. I'm like dying. It is these silent

woods. And I know it's recency bias because I truly just finished it this morning, but I am torn apart. When I tell

you, I was just trying to work and listen, I had to stop and just sit there and stare at my computer

screen, like tears falling. I was shocked in a couple of places. It's so well written, so atmospheric,

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