Unabridged: A Book Podcast

2020-01

Episodes

Wednesday Jan 29, 2020

In this Unabridged Podcast episode, we are sharing about a favorite topic of ours, seasonal reads. We discuss some favorite reads that revolve around winter in some way, including Fredrik Backman’s Beartown, Eowyn Ivey’s The Snow Child, Ruta Sepetys’s Between Shades of Gray, and George R. R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire series.
 
Our Recommendations
Ashley -
Fredrik Backman’s Beartown
Neil Gaiman’s American Gods
 
Sara -
Megan Collins’s The Winter Sister
Eowyn Ivey’s The Snow Child
 
Jen -
Ruta Sepetys’s Between Shades of Gray
George R. R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire series
 
Other Mentions
Ruta Sepetys's Salt to the Sea
American Gods - the TV series
The 100 - the TV series
Game of Thrones series
Modern Mrs. Darcy - Anne Bogel's blog
What Should I Read Next - Anne Bogel's podcast
 
Give Me One - Favorite Cold Weather Activity or Drink
Ashley - sledding and hot chocolate
Sara - visiting a local vineyard
Jen - making snow cream
 
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Wednesday Jan 22, 2020

In this episode, we're facing the new year (and new decade!) and considering our reading lives and goals. We've also each signed up for a different reading challenge including Book Riot's 2020 Read Harder Challenge, the Beat the Backlist Reading Challenge, and The Modern Mrs. Darcy Reading Challenge for 2020. We're talking all things goal and resolution-oriented, and we're making grand plans for how our reading lives will look this year. Will they work out? We'll keep you all posted.
 
Our Reading Challenges
 
Jen - Book Riot's 2020 Read Harder Challenge with @bookriot
Sara - Beat the Backlist Reading Challenge from @novelknight along with The Unread Shelf Project 2020 with @theunreadshelf
Ashley - The Modern Mrs. Darcy Reading Challenge with @annebogel
 
Other Mentions
 
The Morning News Tournament of Books
Marie Kondo
# 20backlistin2020 on Instagram
 
Give Me One - New Year's Resolutions
 
Jen - Updating the house, clearing out the clutter
Sara - Monitoring consumption
Ashley - Simplifying and focusing on clear goals
 
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Wednesday Jan 15, 2020


In this episode, we're discussing some books we can't wait to read in 2020, including Brigid Kemmerer’s A Heart So Fierce and Broken, Bianca Marais’s Hum If You Don’t Know the Words, and Rebecca Serle’s In Five Years. We also talk about Sarah J. Maas's works and end our episode talking about some of our favorite places to eat.
 
Ashley’s Picks
Brigid Kemmerer’s A Heart So Fierce and Broken - January 7, 2020
Adib Khorram’s Darius the Great Is Not Okay
Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive
 
*Listen to Jen’s comments about this one on our “All About the Journey” episode
 
Jen's Picks
Bianca Marais’s Hum If You Don’t Know the Words
Sarah J. Maas’s House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City series) - March 3, 2020
Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed’s When Stars Are Scattered - April 14, 2020
*Colby Sharp's tweet
 
Sara’s Picks
Rebecca Serle’s In Five Years - March 3, 2020
Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Cara Wall’s The Dearly Beloved
 
Other Mentions
Rebecca Serle’s The Dinner List
Victoria Jamieson’s Roller Girl
Sarah J. Maas’s Court of Thorns and Roses (book 1 in series) and Throne of Glass (book 1 in series)
 
Give Me One - Our Favorite Type of Food
Taste of Thai in Harrisonburg
Taj of India in Harrisonburg
Corgan’s Publick House of Harrisonburg
 
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Wednesday Jan 08, 2020

In this Unabridged Book Club (#unabridgedpodbookclub) episode, we discuss Mary Beth Keane's Ask Again, Yes, the amazing multigenerational novel examining two families in a planned community. We make connections to Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere, John Boyne’s The Heart's Invisible Furies, and Ann Patchett’s The Dutch House, and we thoroughly discuss the intricacies of relationships over time and through generations as they are explored in the novel.
 
Timeline
Introduction - 00:00 - 01:35
General Discussion - 01:36- 39:48
Our Pairings - 39:50 - 46:15
Classroom Connections - 46:16 - 49:52
 
Our Pairings
Ashley's pick - Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere
Sara's pick - John Boyne’s The Heart's Invisible Furies
 
Jen's pick - Ann Patchett’s The Dutch House
 
 
 
 
Classroom Connections and Other Mentions
 
Celeste Ng's Everything I Never Told You
 
 
Mira T. Lee's Everything Here Is Beautiful
 
 
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
 
 
Children's author Kate DiCamillo on the What Should I Read Next? podcast (episode 213)
 
 
 
 
Give Me One - Favorite Mixed Drink
 
Sara - Amaretto Sour or Mimosa
 
 
Ashley - Negroni
 
 
Jen - Margarita
 
 
 
 
 
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