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Aug 2024
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Easily Distracted By New Releases (Augus...

Tina @tbretc and Hannah @hanpickedbooks
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In Episode 163 of Book Talk, Etc., Tina and Hannah talk about new book releases that they have read and what they thought of them. For this week’s Book Talk, Tina and Hannah discuss debut novels, plus some of their favorite debuts of the year so far!

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Loving Lately
Notes App on iPhone (T)
-copying photos into the notes app
The Pink Stuff - The Miracle All Purpose Cleaning Paste (H)

Latest Reads
This Is Not How It Ends | Rochelle B. Weinstein (T)
Black Candle Women | Diane Marie Brown (H)

Book Talk: Debut Authors in 2024
Episode 91 - Debuts! Why Do We Love New Authors & Their First Books
Article Discussed
The Bright Side of Disaster | Katherine Center
Blacktop Wasteland | SA Cosby
Nightwatching | Tracy Sierra
Dixon Descending | Karen Outen
Annie Bot | Sierra Greer
The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye | Briony Cameron
Love Letters to a Serial Killer | Tasha Coryell
Green Dot | Madeleine Gray
The Berry Pickers | Amanda Peters

⬇️Books Mentioned ⬇️
Pink Slime | Fernanda Trías (T)
The Eyes are the Best Part | Monika Kim (H)
The Wedding People | Alison Espach (T)
Pink Glass Houses | Asha Elias (H)

Shelf Additions
The Seventh Veil of Salome | Silvia Moreno-Garcia (T+H)

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