You Have the Power: A Discussion with College Students about Isabel Quintero's GABI, A GIRL IN PIECES (Highlight)

Spoilers are inevitable throughout this discussion, so consider whether or not to listen if you haven't yet read the book Gabi, a Girl in Pieces!​timeline
*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00 - 03:49
*Main Discussion: 03:50 - ​36:01
other mentions 
*J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
*Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series
*William Shakespeare's Hamlet
*Charles Dickens's Great Expectations
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A Giant Pile: Anticipated Books for 2019 (Short)

Podcast Episode 57 - A Giant Pile: Anticipated Books for 2019
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our anticipated reads
*Jen -
*Helen Oyeyemi’s Gingerbread
*Dane Huckelbridge’s No Beast So Fierce
*Karen Thompson Walker’s The Dreamers
*Patrick Rothfuss’s Doors of Stone
*Rainbow Rowell’s Wayward Son
*Leigh Bardugo's King of Scars
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*Ashley - 
*Myquillyn Smith’s The Cozy Minimalist Home
*Angie Thomas's On the Come Up
*Laini Taylor’s Muse of Nightmares
*Yara Zgheib’s The Girls at 17 Swann Street
*Children’s book - Kwame Alexander's The Undefeated, illustrated by Kadir Nelson
 
*Sara - 
*Taylor Jenkins Reid's Daisy Jones and the Six
*Busy Phillips’s This Will Only Hurt a Little 
*Tommy Orange’s There, There
*Tracey Garvis Graves’s The Girl He Used to Know
other mentions
*Taylor Jenkins Reid's The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
*Myquillyn Smith's The Nesting Place
*Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give
*Dane Huckelbridge's Castle of Water
*John Vaillant's The Tiger
*Karen Thompson Walker’s The Age of Miracles 
*Tomi Adeyemi's Children of Blood and Bone and Children of Virtue and Vengeance
*Laini Taylor's Strange the Dreamer
*Rainbow Rowell's Carry On and Eleanor and Park
*Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom
*Leigh Bardugo's Grisha series, starting with Shadow and Bone
 
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I Will Qualify Them All: Unabridged Awards (Highlight)

favorites by category mentioned in episode
*Jen -
*Most devastating, gorgeous novel that alternates between time periods - Rebecca Makkai’s The Great Believers
*Most satisfying end of a long series that I’ve been reading for years - Sarah J. Maas’s Kingdom of Ash
 
*Ashley - 
*Best memoir that left me tearing up every five minutes - Michelle Obama’s Becoming
*Best YA verse novel that includes brilliant slam poetry - Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X
 
*Sara - 
*Best book I thought I would hate, but ended up LOVING - Rebecca Serle’s The Dinner List
*Most compelling non-fiction that I have read in a LONG time. - John Carreyrou’s Bad Blood​
not my cup of tea
*Ashley - Angelo Surmelis’s The Dangerous Art of Blending In
*Jen - Ariel Lawhon’s I Was Anastasia
*Sara - Emily Giffin’s All We Ever Wanted
favorites by category - children's books 
*Ashley - A book I’ve decided my girls will absolutely have to read (I hope… fingers crossed that they will like it) - Kelly Barnhill’s The Girl Who Drank the Moon
*Jen - A book I immediately had to read with my son - Jacqueline Woodson’s Harbor Me
*Sara - A book filled with nostalgia that I HAD to share with my kids  - Barbara Robinson's The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
favorites from the podcast
*Ashley - Emily X. R. Pan’s The Astonishing Color of After
*Jen - Tara Westover’s Educated
*Sara - Dane Huckelbridge’s Castle of Water
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A Part of Our History: Justina Ireland's DREAD NATION (Book Club)

Justina Ireland's Dread Nation
 
timeline
*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00 - 02:10
*Main Discussion: 02:11 - 40:54
*​Book Pairings: 40:55 - 46:17
*Classroom Connections: 46:18 - 49:04
book pairings 
*Jen - Patrick Ness’s The Knife of Never Letting Go
*Ashley - Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone (Listen to our podcast episode here)
*Sara - Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments series
other mentions 
*The Walking Dead TV series
*Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games
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Not Guilty Enough: Confessing Our Literary Sins (Short)

mentioned in episode
*Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
*Jane Austen's Emma
*Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
*F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby​
 
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