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The Handsell: November 2, 2020

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🗓️ 2 November 2020

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This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Erosion by Terry Tempest Williams. Trigger warnings: pet death, suicide  This episode is sponsored by Scholastic. 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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Hello, get Book listeners, and welcome to The Handsell, a special weekly installment of Get Booked that's all about books we just can't resist shouting about.

0:54.6

This is Jen Northington, and today's Hand Cell is Erosion, Essays of Undoing by Terry Tempest Williams.

0:58.6

Y'all have heard us talk about Terry Tempest Williams on the show before,

1:02.4

but it's been a real minute since we discussed any of her work. I feel like maybe this book got brought up once, and I've been reading it for about a year,

1:07.8

a little bit at a time.

1:09.4

It's my on and off bedtime book. And I just finished it and

1:12.4

it feels super relevant to life at the moment. So here we are. We're going to talk about it.

1:17.9

Before I get into it, let us hear from our sponsor.

1:22.8

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especially my evening routine, because that five to nine window is the part of the day that really

1:33.2

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

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lux bath towels, which are so unbelievably soft, 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

1:56.4

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