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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 who are easily distracted by new releases.

And today we're talking about overhyped and underhyped books published in 2023.

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helps other book lovers find us. Hey, Tina. Hi, Renee. How's it going? Much better this week.

Yay. I love that. Good.

Doing, yeah, doing better. So hopefully I sound better. Yeah, I'm excited. I have prepped and researched and crossed referenced for this episode. And I think it's going to be fun.

I do too. I have a really solid list some maybe, I don't know, controversial

opinions. You know, I don't really go out on a limb like that. But, you know, I think there'll be some

conversation generated from this episode. I'm truly buzzing right now. I'm not kidding. I feel a little

high. Like it's in the morning. I've had nothing but coffee, but I'm so jazzed. I feel a little bit intoxicated. I'm also high off the buzz of not getting run over this morning was walking my daughter to school. And we have this very treacherous corner outside her school. And we were running across the street and we both fell in the middle of the road. And I thought for sure we were going to get creamed. But happily we both made it.

Oh, yes. I know. They, I don't know. Maybe you need to petition for some.

City Hall. I need a crossing guard. It's really treacherous. And I'm laughing because we survived, but it's not the first time this has

happened. This morning when I told Renee, when we first logged in, I said, we almost got ran over.

She goes again. That's how often it happens. I know. And the last time you were very pregnant.

Yeah, I was. I was nine months pregnant last time I had an issue. Yeah. Well, I'm high off life today, so I am going to

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