Jonathan, I need another shelf upstairs for my five-star books. Thank you.

Welcome to Book Talk, Et cetera, a podcast bound to grow your TBR. I'm Tina and I'm Renee.

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helps other book lovers find us. Hey, Tina. Hi, Renee. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. I'm on the

tail end of a virus or with the cough.

But it wasn't the it wasn't the one nine. So that's good. No, no. I feel like everybody, I feel like everybody I know is sick right now.

I know. Apparently it's going around. But I'm hoping that this week's recording will be much easier. Less coughing, easier on John. Yeah, I'm feeling much better. That it's good. I'm having a, as you can probably hear, unless John cuts it, I was just finishing the dregs of my smoothie because we got a new blender. And I'm like, we're on a smoothie kick. I'm like, we need, Lily, I swear, does not eat very many vegetables. And I'm like, all right, this is going to be a way we get it in her. So we made, I made smoothies this morning and I made Lily one. And I was like, here you go, ready? She's like, I don't want it. I'm like, no. So she said. Yeah, I don't want it. And it's so funny because she loves, like, if we were to stop at, like,

Jamba Juice and get her a little tiny juice or whatever, she loves smoothies if other people make

them. But, like, because Mommy made it, she's not interested. So, oh, that was a funny.

We'll have to try again. But I've been having smoothie for lunch the last three days. Oh, you know what? Last

month we did a soup thread for patrons. Like I'm almost half tempted to say, what are your favorite

smoothie recipes? Because I mean, the possibilities are endless. Yes. I always make the same one

with just almond butter and...

You're a routine gal.

I am very much a routine person, but I do love it.

And it's simple and it's easy.

I had some blueberries, blah, blah, blah.

I think I know I shared my almond energy balls.

That's what I shared before.

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