Unabridged: A Book Podcast

2020-06

Episodes

2020 Reading Challenge Check In

Wednesday Jun 24, 2020

Wednesday Jun 24, 2020

On this Unabridged episode, we consider where we are with our reading goals for the year, including how we're doing on the reading challenges we each selected back in January. We talk about the The Modern Mrs. Darcy Reading Challenge with @annebogel, Book Riot's 2020 Read Harder Challenge with @bookriot, and the Beat the Backlist Reading Challenge from @novelknight along with The Unread Shelf Project 2020 with @theunreadshelf.
 
Bookish Check-in
Ashley - Laura Hankin’s Happy & You Know It - Sara's review will be published on Friday!
Jen - Marlon James’s The Book of Night Women
Sara - Layla F. Saad’s Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
 
Our Reading Challenges
Jen - Book Riot's 2020 Read Harder Challenge with @bookriot → a little more than half
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
 
Give Me One - Beach or Pool?
 
Other Mentions
@readwithtoni on Instagram and our episode with her
Marlon James’s Black Leopard, Red Wolf
@definitelyra on Instagram and our episode with her
@laylafsaad on Instagram
N. K. Jemisin's The City We Became - Jen's review
John Steinbeck’s East of Eden
Marilynne Robinson’s novels (Gilead, Housekeeping, Jack, Lila, Home)
The Tournament of Books and Camp ToB
Adib Khorram's Darius the Great Is Not Okay
Abi Daré's The Girl with the Louding Voice - Ashley's review
George M Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue
Sandhya Menon's When Dimple Met Rishi
 
 
 
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Wednesday Jun 17, 2020

In this Unabridged Podcast discussion, we recommend some books by Black authors that we think would be a great fit in the classroom. We talk about recommendations for Kid Lit, Middle Grade, and YA Lit, and we touch on books by several of our favorite authors, including Jacqueline Woodson, Kwame Alexander, and Ibi Zoboi.
Bookish Check-in
Ashley - Anna Solomon’s The Book of V
Jen - Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Sara - Sandhya Menon's When Dimple Met Rishi
 
Our Recommendations
-Kid Lit
*Quvenzhané Wallis’s A Night Out with Mama
*Kwame Alexander’s The Undefeated, illustrated by Kadir Nelson
 
-Middle Grade
*Jerry Craft’s New Kid
*Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming and Harbor Me
 
-YA Lit
*Ibi Zoboi's American Street and Pride: A Pride and Prejudice Remix
*Renee Watson’s Piecing Me Together
 
Give Me One - Movie to Watch with Your Kids
Ashley - Shrek series
Jen - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Sara - Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse
 
Other Mentions
Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi's Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning
Black Lives Matter Movement
Nic Stone's article "Don’t Just Read About Racism—Read Stories About Black People Living"
Nic Stone's works, including Dear Martin, Odd One Out, Jackpot, Clean Getaway, Shuri
Kwame Alexander's works, including the Crossover series (including The Crossover, Booked, Rebound), Solo, and Swing
Ibi Zoboi's My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Acevedo's The Poet X
Angie Thomas's On the Come Up
Angie Thomas's Concrete Rose (January 2021)
Ernest J. Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying
Jacqueline Woodson's The Day You Begin
Jason Reynolds's Miles Morales: Spider-Man
 
 
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Saturday Jun 13, 2020

In this bonus episode, we wanted to share a re-release of an episode highlighting three novels by Jason Reynolds, one of our favorite Black authors for young people and for the classroom.
We tried to go very light on the spoilers in this episode, but a few minor spoilers were hard to avoid as we revealed what we loved about these books.
 
Timeline
Introduction and Summary of the Book: 00:00 - 02:08
Long Way Down: 02:09-14:55
Ghost: 14:56-25:03
When I Was the Greatest: 25:04-41:03
Classroom Connections: 41:04-44:53
 
Mentioned in Episode
David Greene's "In 'Long Way Down,' The Ghosts Of Gun Violence Chill A Plan For Revenge"
Jason Reynolds's As Brave as You
Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely's All American Boys
Jason Reynolds's Track series
Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give
 
 
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Wednesday Jun 10, 2020

In light of the unjust loss of Black lives in America and of the Black Lives Matter movement, we wanted to share an episode from 2018 where, for our book club, we discussed one of our most favorite YA literature books for the classroom, Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give. In the episode, we discuss the novel and share pairings including Gabrielle Union's We're Going to Need More Wine, Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil's The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After, and Nic Stone's Dear Martin. ​
 
Note: We read a few passages from the text of the novel that include strong language.
 
Spoilers are inevitable throughout our discussion, so consider whether or not to listen if you haven't yet read the book!
 
Book Pairings
Jen - Gabrielle Union's We're Going to Need More Wine
Sara - Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil's The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
Ashley - Nic Stone's Dear Martin ​
 
Books Mentioned in Classroom Connections
Jason Reynolds's Long Way Down
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird​
Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely's All American Boys
 
Other Works Mentioned
Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele's When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
Angie Thomas at the National Book Festival
Book Riot's "Is it Time to Retire To Kill a Mockingbird?" by Jennifer Marer
Jason Reynolds's books
 
 
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A Message about Today's Episode

Wednesday Jun 03, 2020

Wednesday Jun 03, 2020


Today, we are sharing a message about our decision to postpone the regularly scheduled book club episode.
 
Resources Mentioned
Episode 41, about Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give
Episode 45, about the film adaptation of The Hate U Give
 
Note: We will be editing these two episodes and re-releasing them next week.
 
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Click here for a full transcript that you can read while listening, provided by otter.ai.

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