The Handsell: March 23, 2020
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🗓️ 23 March 2020
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| 0:00.0 | AI is incredible. They can teach you how to fry an egg and even write a poem, pirate style. |
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| 0:42.3 | Hello, Get Booked listeners. |
| 0:45.9 | Welcome to The Handsell, a special weekly installment of Get Booked that's all about books we just cannot resist shouting about. |
| 0:49.6 | This is Jen Northington, and today's Handsell is The fifth son by Camilla Townsend, which, no |
| 0:55.7 | lie, I have been reading since October. I originally picked it up because I was guesting |
| 1:01.8 | on the All the Books Show, and it was one of the new releases out that week that I was super |
| 1:06.6 | interested in, and I have been working my way very slowly through it ever since. It does not |
| 1:13.5 | usually take me, what is that, October, November, December, January, February. It doesn't |
| 1:17.9 | usually take me five months to read a book. But I've found with nonfiction that I can't |
| 1:25.3 | blaze through it the way I can with fiction. And also, even if I really do |
| 1:29.0 | want to finish it, sometimes tackling it, you know, half an hour at a time, a couple times |
| 1:34.1 | a week is the way to go. And lo and behold, I have finally finished it, which means it's time |
| 1:39.1 | for me to talk about it because, boy, is it good. But first, let's hear from a sponsor. |
| 1:46.8 | This episode is sponsored by Cozy Earth. This year, I'm getting really intentional about |
| 1:51.7 | resetting my home, especially my evening routine, because that five to nine window is the part |
| 1:56.5 | of the day that really matters to me. I've been building this little nightly ritual with |
| 2:00.3 | cozy Earth, and honestly, it's becoming my favorite part of the day. I've been building this little nightly ritual with cozy Earth, and honestly, |
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