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The Handsell: February 3, 2020

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🗓️ 3 February 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Amanda recommends Unfollow by Megan Phelps-Roper (tw: homophobia). This episode is sponsored by Penguin Teen. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.9

Welcome to The Hand Cell, a new, special weekly installment of Get Booked that's all about

0:48.8

books that we just can't resist shouting about.

0:51.6

So this is our first episode of The hand cell, obviously. So I'm going

0:55.9

to give you a little more details. As all of you know, get booked. Our main show, which goes up on

1:01.4

Thursdays, is a show for personalized reading recommendations where you all send us your reading

1:05.7

recommendation requests and we answer them on the show. In this special Monday edition,

1:11.9

which will happen every week,

1:18.6

Jen and I will rotate in and out, giving you one recommendation for one book that we like,

1:22.1

that we want to talk about. No one's asked us about it. We just want to take the opportunity because it's our show to tell you about a book that we like. It's probably usually going to be something that we haven't

1:28.8

talked about on the show before or that we haven't talked about on the show much. Books that we don't

1:33.3

think are getting enough press or space or airtime out in the world of the book media. So we're taking

1:39.2

this opportunity to do that. Every episode will be, you know, five to ten minutes. And like I said, Jen and I,

1:46.8

who is my co-host, Jen Northington, if you're new, will be rotating these shows. So this is the

1:51.5

first one. I am Amanda Nelson, and today's hand cell is Unfollow by Megan Phelps Roper. I will

1:58.2

give a trigger warning for homophobia about this book. Before I get to telling

2:02.0

you about why you need to go read Unfollow, let's hear from our first sponsor. This episode is

2:09.8

sponsored by Cozy Earth. This year, I'm getting really intentional about resetting my home,

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