Unabridged: A Book Podcast

2020-07

Episodes

Wednesday Jul 29, 2020


As we wrap up Season 3 of the Unabridged Podcast, Ashley, Jen, and Sara look back at Give Me One, a segment we introduced this season. After our Bookish Check-in, we each recommend a Give Me One, and then we end with an episode we recommend from the season.
 
Thank you so much for all of your support! We definitely are looking forward to Season 4.
 
Bookish Check-in
Ashley - Sandhya Menon’s 10 Things I Hate about Pinky
Jen - Roselle Lim’s Vanessa Yu’s Magical Paris Tea Shop (coming out August 4)
Sara - Farrah Rochon’s The Boyfriend Project
 
Discussion - Recommended Give Me One Segments from Season 3
Ashley - Episode 123 - A Worthwhile Purchase During Quarantine
Jen - Episode 113 - A YA Lit Favorite
Sara - Episode 104 - A Toy You Loved When You Were a Kid
 
Other Mentions
Roselle Lim's Natalie Tan's Book of Love and Fortune
Sandhya Menon's When Dimple Met Rishi
Emily X. R. Pan's The Astonishing Color of After
John Green's Turtles All the Way Down
Alix E. Harrow's The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give
Teachers Pay Teachers store
Asia Citro's The Curious Kid's Science Book: 100+ Creative Hands-On Activities for Ages 4-8
Asia Citro's 150+ Screen-Free Activities for Kids: The Very Best and Easiest Playtime Activities from FunAtHomeWithKids.com!
Kimberly McLeod's Fun and Easy Crafting with Recycled Materials: 60 Cool Projects that Reimagine Paper Rolls, Egg Cartons, Jars, and More
John Flanagan's Ranger's Apprentice series
Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi's Stamped: Racism, Anti Racism, and You
 
Give Me One - Recommended Episode from Season 3
Ashley - Episode 113 - Why Teach YA?
Jen - Episode 106 - 2019 Unabridged Awards
Sara - Episode 104 - Debate - What Makes a Holiday Movie?
 
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Wednesday Jul 22, 2020

In this Unabridged Podcast episode, we have so much fun talking with Morgan Hoit, @NYCBookGirl, about book-to-screen adaptations. We talk about our latest reads, book-to-screen adaptations we have loved, and books that we would love to see adapted.
 
Bookish Check In
Ashley - Sally Rooney’s Normal People
Jen - Phuc Tran’s Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit in
Sara - Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park
Morgan - Chelsea Bieker's God Shot, Emma Straub's All Adults Here, Lorrie Moore's short stories
 
Our Book-to-Screen Adaptations
Ashley - Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible
Jen - Natalie Jenner’s The Jane Austen Society
Sara - Rainbow Rowell’s Carry On
Morgan - Adrienne Brodeur's Wild Game
 
Give Me One - Game Night Recommendations
Ashley - Exploding Kittens
Jen - Beyond Balderdash
Sara - Apples to Apples
Morgan - Anomia
 
Other Mentions
Cormac McCarthy's The Road
Lorrie Moore's Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
Garrett M. Graff's The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
Lisa Taddeo's Three Women
Hamilton
Lev Grossman's The Magicians book series and adaptation
Mikel Jollett's Hollywood Park
R. O. Kwan's The Incendiaries
Lauren Groff's Arcadia
Laurence Wright's Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief
Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle
Waco on Netflix
Avid Reader Imprint
Jenny Han's To All the Boys I've Loved Before - book and film adaptation
Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give - book and film adaptation
Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley
André Aciman's Call Me By Your Name
Lady Bird and Greta Gerwig
Screen adaptation of Sally Rooney's Normal People
Hannibal series, based on Thomas Harris's book Hannibal
Mary Ann Shaffer's The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society and the film version
The Harry Potter book series and film adaptations
The Twilight series and film adaptations
Cards Against Humanity (game)
The Oatmeal comic (by Matthew Inman, illustrator of Exploding Kittens)
What Do You Meme? (game)
 
 
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Wednesday Jul 15, 2020

In this Unabridged podcast episode, we're talking with Katherine Center about her latest book, What You Wish For, which released on July 14th. Katherine shares her first experience as a writer, writing fan fic about Duran Duran, why clown socks are the most fashionable apparel, and how she sets out to fight for joy.
 
Bookish Check-in
Ashley - Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half
Jen - Jennifer Weiner’s Big Summer
Sara - Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds’s Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning
Katherine - Will Storr's The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better
 
Other Mentions
Ibram X. Kendi's Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Brit Bennett's The Mothers
Katherine Center's Happiness for Beginners
Katherine Center's Things You Save in a Fire
Katherine Center's How to Walk Away
Katherine Center's The Lost Husband
Ingrid Fetell Lee’s Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness
Katherine Center's thoughts on reading for joy on her website
Archie comics
Stranger than Fiction
 
 
Interested in what else we're reading? Check out our Featured Books page.
 
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Wednesday Jul 08, 2020

In this Unabridged Podcast episode, we have so much fun talking with Mariely Sylvette Martinez of PodQueens Latinas about underrated books and series. She joins us for our Bookish Check-in, and then we chat about what it means to be underrated and why some great books and authors don't seem to get as much buzz as others. Finally, we end with our Give Me One segment and recommend some podcasts that we're enjoying right now.
Bookish Check In
Ashley - Mindy McGinnis's A Madness So Discreet
Jen - Kel Kade's Fate of the Fallen
Sara - Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible
Mariely - Dr. Mayra Llado's Run Your Race: A Guide to Making Your Impossibles Possible
 
Our Underrated Books and Authors
 
Ashley - Laini Taylor
*Daughter of Smoke and Bone series
*Strange the Dreamer duology
*Faeries of Dreamdark duology - Blackbringer
 
Jen - Lauren Oliver
*Before I Fall
*Delirium
*Panic
 
Sara - Beth Vrabel's Caleb and Kit
 
Mariely - Mayra Llado's Run Your Race: A Guide to Making Your Impossibles Possible
 
Give Me One - Podcast
Ashley - NPR's Life Kit
Jen - NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour
Sara - By the Book Podcast
Mariely - Trailblazing Out of Corporate Life
 
Other Mentions
Podfest Multimedia Expo
@readwithtoni - Episode 126: Plugging into Bookish Communities Online with @readwithtoni from Instagram
Jack Canfield's The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Mindy McGinnis's Not a Drop to Drink and In a Handful of Dust
Green Valley Book Fair
Marie Lu's Rebel
Groundhog Day
Jack Canfield's Chicken Soup for the Soul
Brigid Kemmerer's A Curse So Dark and Lonely and A Heart So Fierce and Broken
Talia Hibbert's Get a Life, Chloe Brown
Sarah J. Maas - Throne of Glass and A Court of Thorns and Roses
Cassandra Clare - City of Bones
George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones, A Song of Ice and Fire series
Tomi Adeyemi's Children of Blood and Bone and Children of Virtue and Vengeance
The Popcast with Knox and Jamie
Rhonda Byrnes's The Secret
Marie Kondo's The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
Brandy Ferner's Adult Conversation - Episode 127: Parenting and Partner Tips with Brandy Ferner of ADULT CONVERSATION
Wow in the World
 
Interested in what else we're reading? Check out our Featured Books page.
 
 
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Wednesday Jul 01, 2020

In this Unabridged podcast book club episode, we're discussing Emily Henry's Beach Read. We have a great discussion and pair this one with some other great reads, including Mary Beth Keane’s Ask Again, Yes, Kate Clayborn’s Love Lettering, and Josie Silver’s The Two Lives of Lydia Bird. Beach Read is a contemporary romance that balances witty banter with more serious themes.
 
Bookish Check In
Ashley - Jacqueline Woodson’s Harbor Me
Jen - Jennifer S. Cohen’s Falling Forward
Sara - Elizabeth L. Cline’s The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good
 
Book Pairings
Ashley - Mary Beth Keane’s Ask Again, Yes - episode
Jen - Kate Clayborn’s Love Lettering
Sara - Josie Silver’s The Two Lives of Lydia Bird
 
Mentioned in Episode
Dressember Summer Book Club
Sally Thorne's The Hating Game
Green Valley Book Fair
Cassandra Clare's Lady Midnight
Brandy Ferner's Adult Conversation - episode
Cormac McCarthy's The Road
Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles
Bryn Greenwood's All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
Bookish Ladies Club
 
Click here for a full transcript that you can read while listening, provided by otter.ai.
 
 
Interested in what else we're reading? Check out our Featured Books page.
 
 
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