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And I'm welcome to Book Talk, Et cetera, a podcast bound to grow your TBR. I'm Tina from TBR, etc. And I'm Hannah from

handpicked books. 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 out of our

comfort zones reading. If you enjoy listening, we'd love for you to follow us on Apple

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leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts or sharing us on social media. It truly helps us connect

with other book lovers. Hey, everyone, before we get started, we wanted to share a couple of

announcements with you. Number one, we have new merch. So we will link to that

in the show notes. We have three designs, Jola Book of Flood, which is the holiday book flood,

our original, Everything's Better with Books logo, and a reading as political design, the proceeds

of which will be donated to unite against book ban. So if you're in the market

for some new merch, check out that link. We also just dropped our winter reading guide. This has been

a labor of love. It's something Hannah and I are so proud of. And we've been reading ahead

behind the scenes to get some content for this. So our winter reading guide is a collection

of book recommendations that's designed to offer something for every reader to make the most of

this winter season. The guide is divided into five sections, complicated family stories, all you need

is love, snowed in mysteries and thrillers, winter warnings and holiday horror, and are

easily distracted by new releases section where we have five 2025 winter releases that we have read

that we wanted to put on your radar. If you're already a patron, you've already received this

guide. But if you're not a patron, you can buy this

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