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

I'm Tina from TBR, et cetera.

And I'm Hannah from Handpicked Books.

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Hi, Hannah. Hi, Tina. How are you? Oh, I'm great. I'm chees and smiling from ear to ear. I just got a clean bill of health. And my doctor's visit has inspired my loving lately. It's fresh hot off the presses,

so I'm excited to share that with you. I'm excited to hear about it. I don't think I know at all

what you're going to working. No. I didn't either until about 9 a.m. I had an idea, but I pivoted

when I met with one of the health care providers. I was like, oh yeah, let me bring this to the show.

But what's going on with you? Well, I have been really busy. I'm good. I'm really in my reading

groove again, which needed to happen because it was a little rough for a couple of weeks. But I'm

back. I'm feeling super, like, happy about

everything that I'm reading. And it has definitely been a comfort to me again because, like I said,

we've been really, like my work really picks up in the fall and is really busy. And we've had,

you know, both of the kids are in school and everything. So it's nice to be, to have one

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