I'm ready.

Three.

Man, too bad we can't use that for an intro.

Two.

We'll probably put it on YouTube.

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 read our patrons' five-star reads.

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Hi, Hannah. How are you? Hello, Tina. I am doing just dandy. I am just happy to be here, to be

honest. Yeah, for real. Storms of the Midwest really hit Michigan hard this past week. But I am here

today with thanks to a lovely friend of ours bringing us a generator powered by gas

and a lot of love insane insane we are literally recording by generator like Hannah basically has

a candle in front of her literally do light the room do you really yes I've got my We're recording my candlelight right now. And so this just goes to show how much we love our listeners. And apologies, we're actually not quite sure. Right now, as we're recording it's Sunday night, we need to give Jonathan a little bit of lead time in order to edit. He works tomorrow. Listen, you're hearing this. So you know what day came out. Right now in real

time. We don't know if this is coming out Tuesday or Wednesday, but whatever it is. I'm excited to

talk to you. And I had a really good reading week. Yeah, me too, actually. With the power being out,

I honestly, like, lived my best life. I like binge two thrillers that I actually just suspended my

disbelief and enjoyed and I finished a romance. And honestly, it was just kind of nice to

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