I'm on hot mic. I got a hot mic here. Okay. Ready. I'm fucking ready. Oh, my God. Yes. Here we go. Let's talk about books. And three, two, one.

Welcome to Book Talk, etc. A podcast bound to grow your TBR. I'm Tina from TBR, et cetera. And I'm Renee from its booktop. 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 our March

books on the radar. We'll share something that we've been loving lately, review our latest reads,

and share books releasing in March that we're the most excited about. If you enjoy listening,

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Or both. It truly helps connect us with other book lovers. Hey, Tina. Hey, Renee. How are you?

I'm doing good. Good morning. I should say, sometimes we record at night, and today we're recording in the morning. I know. It's an early bird special. We've got our coffee. Well, I do anyway. My giant ice coffee that takes up like half the screen. Oh, I've had a bunch of coffee and I'm ready to talk about books. I do have a

quick question for you to start. Yeah, what's up? What was your favorite Super Bowl commercial?

We're recording the day after the Super Bowl. So that was fun. And the halftime show was fun.

And I'm curious about your favorite. Oh, the halftime show was amazing. Oh, the halftime show was great. I loved everything about the halftime show was fun. And I'm curious about your favorite. Oh, the halftime show was great.

I loved everything about the halftime show. Mary Jay turned out. They were all so good. Everybody was so good. I loved it so much.

Commercials-wise, I was like, wow, there was a ton of electric cars, cryptocurrency. was like everything. And like I was like,

I want the fun commercials. Like I want the like, you know, easy, breezy potato chip commercials or like,

I didn't see any of that I that jumped out as like, oh, that was really cute or like that was fun.

Do you have one? Well, I mean, I didn't watch the Sopranos, but I did love that commercial. I do. That's still on my two to be watched list. I loved the commercial with Scarlett Johansson and her husband with if Alexa could read your mind. I thought that was so funny and creative. That was probably my favorite. Yeah, I liked the Sopranos one too. I never watched the show, but I was like, oh my gosh, as soon as you heard that music, I'm like, oh, I know what this is. And like, they were not showing her face full on. At first, I'm like, is that Lady Gaga? Why would you be in this music? I'm like, I don't know, kind of Italian. And then I figured out, I think it was the actress from the TV show. Right, right. It was. It was very cinematic just like the TV show. I mean,

my husband watched it. So I've seen the beginning of it, you know, tons of time. So, wow,

they did such a good job with the... There was a lot. There was a lot of, like, highly produced ones.

The game itself was so fun to watch, but the ending sucked for me.

I really wanted. Not that I like super cared either way, but I was like, man, like I was really hoping for the Bengals to pull it out. But whatever. I mean, I'm not into football at all. But of course,

you know, I'm in Ohio. Yeah, it would have been nice to see the Bengals win. I assumed that

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