Are you ready? Are you ready? Oh, wait, wait.

Okay, I'm ready. Wait, no.

Welcome to Book Talk, Et cetera, a podcast bound to grow your TBR. I'm Tina from TVR, etc. And I'm Renee from its book talk.

This is a conversational podcast about books and more from two Midwest mood readers who are

easily distracted by new releases. Today we're sharing our October books on the radar.

We'll share something that we've been loving lately, review our

latest read, and have book talk about October releases we're the most excited about. We'll wrap

things up with our shelf edition. We're a new podcast, so if you like what you hear, we'd love

for you to follow us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen. And if you have a quick minute,

please consider leaving us a review. It helps us find our perfect listening audience. Hey, Tina. Hi, Renee. How are you? I am good.

How about you? Good. I am settled in, ready to go. I was, of course, finishing my little script this morning,

deciding which books I want to choose. And I noticed something. I literally found this out five

minutes ago. One of my picks for October has been pushed to November because I don't know if you've

heard this, but there is a major backup with books being

released and a lot of publication dates are being pushed because the Suez Canal, there's that,

you know, the blockage.

That's the reason.

And printers are backed up because all of the books from last year got pushed to this year because

of COVID. And apparently it's having, it's having an effect and a lot of authors are being

affected. So just a heads up. We're going to talk about books we think are going to come out

in October, but it could be that they get pushed, but we will get them eventually.

I had the same thing.

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