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In Episode 198 of Book Talk, Etc., Tina and Hannah share their love of independent bookstores in celebration of Independent Bookstore Day, happening in the U.S. on April 26.

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Two Most Dense Killers Video

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Famous Last Words (T)

Book Club Girl

Honest Authors - Podcast

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Map of Participating Bookstores

List of Bookstore Crawls

Chicago Book Crawls

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The Last Bookstore

Exile Bookville

Quail Ridge Books

This is A Bookstore + Book Bug

Call and Response Bookstore

Everything is Tuberculosis (T)

The War That Saved My Life (H)

Gothictown (T)

Big Friendship (H)

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Medicine River (H)

Last Night at the Telegraph Club (T)

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In Episode 197 of Book Talk, Etc., Tina and Hannah are easily distracted by new releases! We share some thoughts on new books we’ve read recently, and discuss book aesthetics we both love and loathe.

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Tell Me What You Did | Carter Wilson (T)

The Names | Florence Knapp (H)

Book Talk

The Quiet Librarian | Allen Eskens (T)

The Huntress | Kate Quinn

Hot Air | Marcy Dermansky (H)

The Missing Half | Ashley Flowers (T)

Great Big Beautiful Life | Emily Henry (H)

Shelf Additions

The Storm | Rachel Hawkins (T)

The Lilac People | Milo Todd (H)

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In Episode 196 of Book Talk, Etc., Tina and Hannah are diving into mood reading and sharing some fun quarter one reading stats! We chat about our standout books of the year so far, the books we just can't stop thinking about, and reflect on some reading insights.

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Merlin - Bird Coaching App

Clever Fox Journal (H)

Latest Read

Sunrise on the Reaping | Suzanne Collins (T)

The Other People | C. B. Everett (H)

Book Talk

Wild Dark Shore

Broken Country

Red Clay

The Favorites

The Names

Sandwich

Good Dirt

He/She/They

Human Sacrifices

Hannah’s IG Q1 Check In

A Forty Year Kiss | Nickolas Butler (T)

The Filling Station | Vanessa Miller (H)

Julie Chan is Dead | Liann Zhang (T)

Fall Risk | Abby Jimenez (H)

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The Eights | Joanna Miller (T)

Needle Lake | Justine Champine

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In Episode 195 of Book Talk, Etc., Tina and Hannah dive into the world of historical fiction and what defines the genre. We discuss our favorite historical fiction sub-genres, explore the historical settings we love, how often we reach for historical fiction, and what keeps us coming back to stories set in the past.

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Wild Dark Shore (T+H)

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Currently Reading Episode - Season 7, Episode 3

In Memoriam | Alice Winn

10 Popular Historical Fiction Sub-Genres

See What I Have Done | Sarah Schmidt

Cursed Bread | Sophie Mackintosh

The Quiet Librarian | Allen Eskins

Historical Fiction Beyond WWII

Clear | Carys Davies (T)

The Inheritance | Trisha Sakhlecha

The Witching Tide | Margaret Meyer (H)

The Good People | Hannah Kent

The Unexpected Diva | Tiffany L. Warren (T)

Heaven & Earth Grocery Store | James McBride (H)

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In Episode 194 of Book Talk, Etc., Tina and Hannah bring their April Books on the Radar.

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I Leave Up to You | Jinwoo Chong (T)

@PaperFury

Don’t Let the Forest In | C.G. Drews (H)

April BOTR

Honorable Mentions

Say You’ll Remember Me | Abby Jimenez

Great Big Beautiful Life | Emily Henry

When the Wolf Comes Home | Nat Cassidy

Staircase in the Woods | Chuck Wendig

The Last Session | Julia Bartz (T)

April BOTR

The Sirens | Emilia Hart (H)

Happy Land | Dolen Perkins-Valdez (T)

The Bright Years | Sarah Damoff (H)

Bat Eater: and Other Names for Cora Zeng | (T)

The Float Test | Lynn Steger Strong (H)

Julie Chan is Dead | Liann Zhang (T)

Polybius | Collin Armstrong (H)

The Road to Tender Hearts | Annie Hartnett (T)

Bad Nature | Ariel Courage (H)

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In Episode 193 of Book Talk, Etc., Tina and Hannah chat all things BookTok. We discuss some of our top creators on the app and bring books we've discovered through one of our favorite book recommendation sources.

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Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke

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Magnolia Parks | Jessa Hastings (T)

The Dream Hotel | Laila Lalami (T)

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@Coffeeandcuentos

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BookTokBooks

My Husband | Maud Ventura (T)

Human Sacrifices | María Fernanda Ampuero with Frances Riddle (Translator) (H)

This Thing Between Us | Gus Moreno (T)

An Ember in the Ashes | Sabaa Tahir (H)

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It’s Not the End of the World | Jonathan Parks-Ramage (T)

Finding Grace | Loretta Rothschild (H)

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In Episode 191 of Book Talk, Etc., Tina and Hannah are diving into the world of book collections, physical TBRs, and the joy (or chaos) of owning too many books. We also push back against shaming others' book collections and celebrate the freedom to curate our shelves in a way that blows our hair back!

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Jocswatchlist (T)

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Back After This | Linda Holmes (T)

The Empusium | Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (H)

Book Talk

Blackwells

Bookshop.org

PangoBooks

The Safekeep | Yael van der Wouden

New Releases

Tilt | Emma Pattee (T)

We Rip the World Apart | Charlene Carr (H)

Broken Country | Clare Leslie Hall (T)

Promise Me Sunshine | Cara Bastone (H)

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Can a single sentence make or break a book? In Episode 191 of Book Talk, Etc., Tina and Hannah put first lines to the test—reading books based solely on their opening sentences and discussing what makes an introduction instantly gripping. Join us as we explore the power of a strong start and see which books reel us in from page one.

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Kale Caesar Salad from Love and Lemons (T)

Artsy Legacy on Etsy (H)

Community Read

Good Dirt | Charmaine Wilkerson (T+H)

Judging Books by Their Opening Lines

Mostly Dead Things | Kristen Arnett (T)

Perfume and Pain | Anna Dorn (H)

The Lamb | Lucy Rose (T)

The Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson (H)

Shelf Addition:

The Frequency of Living Things | Nick Fuller Googins (T)

Run for the Hills | Kevin Wilson (H)

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