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The Handsell: January 18, 2021

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🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore. 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. Books Discussed Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore (cw: PTSD, violent harm to women and children (and men, just everyone), rape, self-harm, suicide) Graceling, Fire, and Winterkeep Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And this time, it's here to stay.

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0:32.5

Hello, Get Booked listeners.

0:39.9

Welcome to The Handsell, a special weekly installment of Get Booked that's all about books we just can't resist shouting about.

0:56.4

This is Jen Northington, and today's Hand Cell is Bitterblue by Kristen Cashor, which is a reread for me, a YAA book that is actually the third book in the Graceling series, but I reread it over my holiday break because there's a new book in the series coming out this month. And wow, do we need to talk about it? It

1:03.4

resonates in a really interesting way with our current moment in a way I thought other folks

1:08.4

might appreciate as well. So before I get into the details

1:12.3

of that, let us hear from our sponsor. This episode is sponsored by Cozy Earth. This year,

1:20.9

I'm getting really intentional about resetting my home, especially my evening routine, because that

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five to nine window is the part of the day that

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really matters to me. I've been building this little nightly ritual with cozy Earth, and honestly,

1:32.9

it's becoming my favorite part of the day. I start with a bubble bath. Obviously, I'm reading a

1:37.6

great book, and then I wrap up in one of their Lux bath towels, which are so unbelievably soft,

1:43.0

but they also dry you off really quickly. After that,

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I slip into cozy earth's bamboo stretch-knit pajamas, which are the kind of comfort that feels

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