Welcome to Book Talk, Et cetera, a podcast bound to grow your TBR.

When that coffee kicks in.

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

and this is my co-host 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. Today we're talking about

popcorn thrillers, books that keep you turning the pages

and feel impossible to put down. We're a new podcast, so if you like what you hear, we'd love

for you to follow us on iTunes or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Hey, Tina. Hello. Well, do I

sound different today? No. Okay. Well, I am coming to you live from my parents' house.

Please excuse the elliptical in the background and everything else. It's just interesting.

You know, of course, I used to go into an office five days a week, but now with the pandemic for the last

year, I have been very, very lucky to work from home.

But with the baby, that has evolved in terms of where I end up working.

So I have been coming to my parents' house a couple of days a week.

And I have to say I love it.

I feel like I spend so much more time with my parents and I get to see my baby.

Best of all, I feel like I have a better work life

balance now that I'm not commuting two and a half, three hours a day. And I think I'm more

productive as a whole. It actually ties into something that I was reading yesterday. This was an article

and it was from Anne Helen Peterson about the future of work from home. It's really interesting to think about how the

pandemic might have changed some people's work lives for good. And I realize this is a very

privileged point of view. For me, it was interesting to think about, you know, some jobs really

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