I need to channel the cleverness today. I'm not quite feeling it, but maybe that help that will change.

Clever.

Welcome to Book Talk, etc. A podcast bound to grow your TBR.

I'm Tina.

And I'm Renee.

And this is a conversational podcast about books and more from two Midwest mood readers.

We're easily distracted by new releases.

And today, we're sharing our favorite books of the year so far.

If you enjoy listening, we'd love for you to follow us on Apple

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leaving us a review or rating on Apple Podcasts or sharing us on social media. All of this truly

helps other book lovers find us. Hey, everyone. It is the first Tuesday of July, so we wanted to take

the time at the top of the show to invite you to become a patron of book talk, et cetera. As you may

know, Patreon is an online membership platform that gives you a way to financially support our

podcast for just $5 a month. You get access to all of our bonus content. We love our Patreon

community and spend a lot of time behind the scenes to really make sure you're getting the most

out of that $5. So we'd love if you'd consider joining. As a patron, you get two bonus episodes

every month, including our What's in the Mailbag episode, where we give you the scoop on books we've

recently acquired. You never quite know what we're going to release for the other bonus episode.

We cycle between books we did not finish, book talk after dark, or seasonally specific episodes.

And for July, we're releasing another criminally book, which is where we pair a true crime story

with crime fiction recommendations.

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