Unabridged: A Book Podcast
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Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
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
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
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Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
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
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Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
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
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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
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
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
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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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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Wednesday May 27, 2020
Wednesday May 27, 2020
In this Unabridged Podcast interview episode, we had a wonderful time discussing all things parenting and partners with Brandy Ferner. We read her novel Adult Conversation, which just released on May 5th, and we all felt that the depiction of motherhood with all of its dark humor and relentlessness resonated so much with our experiences.
Bookish Check In
Ashley - Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible
Jen - Marie Lu’s Rebel
Sara - Josie Silver’s The Two Lives of Lydia Bird
Brandy - Glennon Doyle’s Untamed
Mentioned in Episode
Judy Brady Syfer’s “I Want a Wife”
Instagram’s @readwithtoni
Adult Conversation Podcast
The Adult Conversation Episode where Brandy talks about writing Adult Conversation
The Office
Give Me One - Reality TV Recs
Ashley - The Great British Bake Off
Jen - Survivor, Nailed It, So You Think You Can Dance, Next Top Model
Sara - The Bachelor/The Bachelorette, The Challenge, Top Chef, Real World, Road Rules
Brandy - Vanderpump Rules, Cameo website, The Bachelor, The Bachelor in Paradise, Too Hot to Handle
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