Unabridged: A Book Podcast
Uncategorized
Episodes
Sunday May 24, 2020
Sunday May 24, 2020
We're so excited to share a preview of "Is There Anything Newer?" an episode of Connections: A Podcast of the James L. Hamner Public Library. This is a short excerpt from our conversation with Jill Hames, director of the James L. Hamner Public Library and host of Connections.
Also, watch for our Bookish Fave at unabridgedpod.com with recommendations for even more middle-grade reads.
Books Mentioned
Gary Paulsen's Hatchet, Brian's Winter (complete Hatchet series)
Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games trilogy)
Clare Vanderpool's Navigating Early
Veronica Roth's Divergent (the Divergent series)
Interested in what else we're reading? Check out our Featured Books page.
Want to support Unabridged?
Check out our Merch Store!
Become a patron on Patreon.
Follow us @unabridgedpod on Instagram.
Like and follow our Facebook Page.
Subscribe to our YouTube channel.
Check out our Teachers Pay Teachers store.
Follow us @unabridgedpod on Twitter.
Subscribe to our podcast and rate us on Apple Podcasts or on Stitcher.
Check us out on Podbean.
Please note that we a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
Wednesday May 20, 2020
Wednesday May 20, 2020
In this week's episode of Unabridged, Ashley, Jen, and Sara talk with Toni about the power of developing an online bookish community. Toni--who posts @readwithtoni--shares her own bookstagram journey, what she loves about buddy reads, and the books (like Homegoing and All the Ugly and Wonderful Things) that have resulted in some great conversations. We also each share some great, bookstagram-made-me-do-it reads.
Bookish Check In
Ashley - Lyssa Kay Adams’s The Bromance Book Club
Jen - Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s Locke and Key series / book 1
Sara - Dionne Searcey’s In Pursuit of Disobedient Women: A Memoir of Love, Rebellion, and Family, Far Away
Toni - Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai's The Mountains Sing
Mentioned in Episode
John Boyne's The Heart's Invisible Furies
Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing
Min Jin Lee's Pachinko
Fatima Farheen Mirza's A Place for Us
Bryn Greenwood's All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
Bryn Greenwood's The Reckless Oath We Made
@marianne.reads on Instagram
Give Me One - Book You've Found Because of Instagram
Sara - Lisa Lutz’s The Swallows
Ashley - Miranda Popkey’s Topics of Conversation (Book of the Month in general)
Toni - Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing
Jen - Mikel Jollett’s Hollywood Park
Interested in what else we're reading? Check out our Featured Books page.
Want to support Unabridged?
Check out our Merch Store!
Become a patron on Patreon.
Follow us @unabridgedpod on Instagram.
Like and follow our Facebook Page.
Subscribe to our YouTube channel.
Check out our Teachers Pay Teachers store.
Follow us @unabridgedpod on Twitter.
Subscribe to our podcast and rate us on Apple Podcasts or on Stitcher.
Check us out on Podbean.
Click here for a full transcript that you can read while listening provided by otter.ai.
Wednesday May 13, 2020
Wednesday May 13, 2020
In this Unabridged Podcast episode, we're discussing specific thrillers that we've read and LOVED (including books by Ruth Ware, Oyinkan Braithwaite, and T.M. Logan), and we're talking more generally about what does and does not work for us when it comes to the thriller genre. We've talked a lot recently about comfort reads and light reads, but we know from our Bookstagram community that thrillers are also a great escape for many readers. Let us know what you have read and loved when it comes to thrillers!
Bookish Check In
Sara - Brandy Ferner’s Adult Conversation
Jen - Casey Cep’s Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
Ashley - Jim Kay’s illustrated edition of J.K. Rowlings’s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Thrillers We Recommend
Sara - T.M. Logan's Lies
Jen - Ruth Ware’s The Turn of the Key
Ashley - Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My Sister, the Serial Killer
Other Mentions
Schitt’s Creek
Abby Jimenez’s The Happy Ever After Playlist
Emily Henry’s Beach Read
Ruth Ware's The Woman in Cabin 10
Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl
Paula Hawkins's The Girl on the Train
Give Me One - Things that Make Us Happy in Spring
Jen - Planting flowers
Ashley - Cherry blossoms
Sara - Porch weather
Interested in what else we're reading? Check out our Featured Books page.
Want to support Unabridged?
Check out our Merch Store!
Become a patron on Patreon.
Follow us @unabridgedpod on Instagram.
Like and follow our Facebook Page.
Subscribe to our YouTube channel.
Check out our Teachers Pay Teachers store.
Follow us @unabridgedpod on Twitter.
Subscribe to our podcast and rate us on Apple Podcasts or on Stitcher.
Check us out on Podbean.
Wednesday May 06, 2020
Wednesday May 06, 2020
In this Unabridged Podcast book club episode, we discuss the readers' choice spring 2020 pick, Katharine McGee's American Royals. We pair it with other books we've loved, including Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians (which we discussed in a film adaptation episode here!), Kiera Cass’s The Selection series, and Melissa Bashardoust’s Girls Made of Snow and Glass. We ended the episode by sharing (confessing?) things that we love to do to relax.
Timeline
Intro and Bookish Check In: 00:00 - 06:13
Book Club Discussion: 06:14 - 45:14
Give Me One: 45:15 - end
Bookish Check In
Ashley - Talia Hibbert’s Get a Life, Chloe Brown
Jen - Maggie Downs’s Braver than You Think (out May 12)
Sara - Abby Jimenez’s The Happy Ever After Playlist
Book Pairings
Ashley - Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians
Jen - Kiera Cass’s The Selection series - The Selection Book 1 / Complete Box Set
Sara - Melissa Bashardoust’s Girls Made of Snow and Glass
Other Mentions
Libro.fm
Hamilton the musical
Our Bookish Turn Offs episode
Our Crazy Rich Asians Book-to-Film Adaptation episode
The Bachelor
Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games
Give Me One - One Thing You Do to Relax
Ashley - coloring and lettering
Sara- exercise routine
Jen - reality TV / reading
Interested in what else we're reading? Check out our Featured Books page.
Want to support Unabridged?
Check out our Merch Store!
Become a patron on Patreon. Follow us @unabridgedpod on Instagram.
Like and follow our Facebook Page.
Subscribe to our YouTube channel.
Check out our Teachers Pay Teachers store.
Follow us @unabridgedpod on Twitter.
Subscribe to our podcast and rate us on Apple Podcasts or on Stitcher.
Check us out on Podbean.
Wednesday Apr 29, 2020
Wednesday Apr 29, 2020
This week, we're talking about all of the things that work for us and that have worked for our students to keep the reading momentum going! We talk about favorite authors like Jason Reynolds, Jacqueline Woodson, and Mo Willems, and we share about awesome audio options like Lavar Burton's weekly reading opportunities. To get full access to all of the resources we curated, be sure to sign up for our newsletter where you'll be able to download our guide!
Bookish Check In
Sara - Katharine McGee’s American Royals
Jen - Mikel Jollett’s Hollywood Park
Ashley - Cassandra Clare’s Lady Midnight
Mentioned in Episode
AudioFile's Audiobook Sync
Jason Reynolds - Instagram / Library of Congress
Kwame Alexander - Twitter / YouTube
Jacqueline Woodson - Twitter
Lavar Burton - podcast / Twitter livestream
Mo Willems’s "Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems"
Coco Simon's The Cupcake Diaries series
Anne Bogel’s Don’t Overthink It
Scribd
Give Me One - A Worthwhile Purchase during Quarantine
Ashley - Kimberly McLeod’s Fun and Easy Crafting with Recycled Materials: 60 Cool Projects that Reimagine Paper Rolls, Egg Cartons, Jars and More!
Jen - John Flanagan’s Ranger’s Apprentice series (book 1, The Ruins of Gorlan)
Sara - Canvas set for art projects
Other Mentions
Lego Masters show
Little Fires Everywhere series
Asia Citro's 150+ Screen-Free Activities with Kids
Interested in what else we're reading? Check out our Featured Books page.
Check out our Merch Store!
Become a patron on Patreon.
Follow us @unabridgedpod on Instagram.
Like and follow our Facebook Page.
Subscribe to our YouTube channel.
Check out our Teachers Pay Teachers store.
Follow us @unabridgedpod on Twitter.
Subscribe to our podcast and rate us on Apple Podcasts or on Stitcher.
Check us out on Podbean.
For a transcript and book images, click here.
Please note that we a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
Wednesday Apr 22, 2020
Wednesday Apr 22, 2020
In this Unabridged podcast episode, we're discussing some bookish turn offs we each have and when it's worth it to push past those turn offs (and when to accept them and move on!). We discuss tons of books including some of our collective favorites like John Boyne’s The Heart’s Invisible Furies, Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See, and Alan Gratz’s Refugee. While we each have different turn offs, we all agree that there are certainly things that attract us and repel us when it comes to choosing books, and it's fun to discuss what those are!
Bookish Check In
Ashley - Abi Daré’s The Girl with the Louding Voice
Jen - Eowyn Ivey’s The Snow Child
Sara - Riley Sager’s Lock Every Door
Books Mentioned
Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl
Miranda Popkey’s Topics of Conversation
Kate Quinn’s The Alice Network
Martha Hall Kelly’s The Lilac Girls
Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life
John Boyne’s The Heart’s Invisible Furies
Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold’s The Almost Moon
Alice Sebold’s Lucky
Paula Hawkins's The Girl on the Train
Blake Crouch's Dark Matter
Tatiana de Rosnay’s Sarah’s Key
Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief
Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See
Janie Chang’s The Library of Legends
Ruta Sepetys’s Salt to the Sea
George Takei’s They Called Us Enemy
Georgia Hunter’s We Were the Lucky Ones
Alan Gratz’s Refugee
Give Me One - A Show to Binge
Jen - Locke and Key (book), My Brilliant Friend (book)
Sara - Broadchurch, Cheer
Ashley - Schitt’s Creek
Interested in what else we're reading? Check out our Featured Books page.
Loving what you see here? Please comment below (scroll ALL the way down to comment), share this post using the social media buttons below (scroll down for those as well!), and find us on social media to share your thoughts.
Want to support Unabridged?
Check out our Merch Store!
Become a patron on Patreon.
Follow us @unabridgedpod on Instagram.
Like and follow our Facebook Page.
Subscribe to our YouTube channel.
Check out our Teachers Pay Teachers store.
Follow us @unabridgedpod on Twitter.
Subscribe to our podcast and rate us on Apple Podcasts or on Stitcher.
Check us out on Podbean.
Click here for a full transcript that you can read while listening provided by otter.ai. For a transcript and book images, click here.
Wednesday Apr 15, 2020
Wednesday Apr 15, 2020
In this episode, we have a great time discussing what we've each learned about the enneagram. We each chose a book (Ashley chose Millenneagram: The Enneagram Guide for Discovering Your Truest, Baddest Self, Jen chose The Essential Enneagram, and Sara chose The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery) to read that explored the enneagram, and we did our best to figure out our numbers. It was an adventure, and we had fun sharing with you! Stick around for our board game recs during our Give Me One at the end of the episode.
Bookish Check In
Jen - Maggie Stiefvater’s Call Down the Hawk
Sara - Ali Wong’s Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life
Ashley - Helen Hoang’s The Kiss Quotient
Enneagram Books We Each Read
Ashley - Hannah Paasch’s Millenneagram: The Enneagram Guide for Discovering Your Truest, Baddest Self
Jen - David Daniels, M.D., and Virginia Price, Ph.D.’s The Essential Enneagram
Sara - Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile's The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery
Other Mentions
Free Enneagram Test that Ashley took
Paid Enneagram Test that Sara took
True Colors Personality Test
Give Me One - Favorite board game to play with your family
Ashley - Simple Farm Bingo (farm animal bingo), 5 Minute Dungeon, Mancala
Sara - Qwixx
Jen - HedBanz
Other Games Mentioned
Spot It
Uno Moo
To see a full transcript and listen at the same time, click here to access it on Otter.ai.
Interested in what else we're reading? Check out our Featured Books page.
Want to support Unabridged?
Check out our Merch Store!
Become a patron on Patreon.
Follow us @unabridgedpod on Instagram.
Like and follow our Facebook Page.
Subscribe to our YouTube channel.
Check out our Teachers Pay Teachers store.
Follow us @unabridgedpod on Twitter.
Subscribe to our podcast and rate us on Apple Podcasts or on Stitcher.
Check us out on Podbean.
Please note that we a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
In this episode, we talk about what kinds of reads are bringing us comfort during these challenging times. Sara shares her love of cookbooks like Michelle Smith’s The Whole Smiths Good Food Cookbook, Ashley shares her love of poetry including the grief anthology Kevin Young’s The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing, and Jen shares some great fantasy reads that she's loving including Sarah J. Maas’s House of Earth and Blood. We'd love to know what you're reading that is bringing you comfort! Let us know here or on social media @unabridgedpod!
Bookish Check-in
Ashley - Louise Penny’s Still Life
Jen - Susannah Cahalan’s The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission that Changed Our Understanding of Madness
Sara - Katherine Center’s Things You Save in a Fire
Comfort Read Recommendations
Sara -
Cookbooks
Annie F. Downs’s 100 Days to Brave: Devotions for Unlocking Your Most Courageous Self
(See this episode 198 from What Should I Read Next?)
Jen -
Sarah J. Maas’s House of Earth and Blood
Elana K. Arnold’s Damsel
Brigid Kemmerer’s A Curse So Dark and Lonely
Ashley -
Wendell Berry’s Window Poems
Mary Oliver’s West Wind
Nikky Finney’s Rice and Head Off and Split
Kevin Young’s The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing, including Phillis Levin’s “Vigil”
Don't miss our episode where we talked about ways to beat a reading slump in Episode 54!
Other Mentions
Susannah Cahalan’s Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Katherine Center’s How to Walk Away
Anne Bogel’s Don’t Overthink It: Make Easier Decisions, Stop Second-Guessing, and Bring More Joy to Your Life
Michelle Smith’s The Whole Smiths Good Food Cookbook: Whole30 Endorsed, Delicious Real Food Recipes to Cook All Year Long
Give Me One - What's Getting Us By Right Now
Jen -
Jarrett Lerner’s activities online
online streaming of new movies (Onward)
Sara-
Joe Wick - daily PE activities for kids (and adults!)
Lindsay Brin - Kids' workouts
Yaymaker - Virtual paint class
Ashley -
Wow in the World podcast (now releasing daily with “Two Whats and a Wow!” as well as weekly!)
Highlights Magazine Hidden Pictures - set of 4
To see a full transcript and listen at the same time, click here to access it on Otter.
Interested in what else we're reading? Check out our Featured Books page.
Want to support Unabridged?
Check out our Merch Store!
Become a patron on Patreon.
Follow us @unabridgedpod on Instagram.
Like and follow our Facebook Page.
Subscribe to our YouTube channel.
Check out our Teachers Pay Teachers store.
Follow us @unabridgedpod on Twitter.
Subscribe to our podcast and rate us on Apple Podcasts or on Stitcher.
Check us out on Podbean.
Please note that we a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
For our April Unabridged Book Club episode and discussion, we talk about Samira Ahmed's near-future YA literature novel, Internment (which was also our buddy read on Instagram in March!), and we make connections to other works including Mark Oshiro’s Anger Is a Gift, George Takei’s They Called Us Enemy, and Nic Stone’s Dear Martin. We end the episode by discussing some things that are helping us cope during this challenging time for our Give Me One. Join us all month on social media as we continue this discussion about Ahmed's Internment!
Timeline
Intro and Bookish Check In: 00:00 - 06:45
Book Club Discussion: 06:45 - 29:52
Give Me One: 40:00 - end
Bookish Check In
Ashley - Gary Schmidt’s The Wednesday Wars
Jen - Rebecca Serle’s In Five Years
Sara - Sarah Dunn’s The Arrangement
Our Pairings
Ashley - Mark Oshiro’s Anger Is a Gift
Jen - George Takei’s They Called Us Enemy
Sara - Nic Stone’s Dear Martin
Give Me One - One Thing Helping Us Cope
Ashley - Cincinnati Zoo Safari Live Events (on their Facebook page and on their YouTube channel) and spending time outside
Jen - Lego Masters show
Sara - FaceTime with family
Interested in what else we're reading? Check out our Featured Books page.
Want to support Unabridged?
Check out our Merch Store!
Become a patron on Patreon.
Follow us @unabridgedpod on Instagram.
Like and follow our Facebook Page.
Subscribe to our YouTube channel.
Check out our Teachers Pay Teachers store.
Follow us @unabridgedpod on Twitter.
Subscribe to our podcast and rate us on Apple Podcasts or on Stitcher.
Check us out on Podbean.
Please note that we a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
Wednesday Mar 25, 2020
Wednesday Mar 25, 2020
In this episode, we consider books that we'd recommend to students as great choices to read independently. As the world around us has drastically changed and continues changing, we decided on this topic and talked about some of our favorites, including R. J. Palacio's Wonder, Jenny Han's To All the Boys I've Loved Before series, Nicola Yoon's books, and anything by Jason Reynolds, as well as some other favorites. We focus our discussion on books we think students can access without teacher support and on books that are not extremely heavy but leave the reader with a sense of hope. (We shared our long list on our Bookish Faves post this past Monday.) Be sure to let us know ones you'd recommend on the comments here or on our Instagram posts.
Our Recommendations
R. J. Palacio’s Wonder
Jenny Han’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (Ep 90)
Jason Reynolds’s Track series or When I Was the Greatest (or any of his other works) (Ep 34)
John Green’s Turtles All the Way Down
Nicola Yoon’s Everything, Everything and The Sun Is Also a Star (Ep 75 - book-to-film adaptation)
Victoria Jamieson’s Roller Girl
Cece Bell’s El Deafo
Raina Telgemeier’s Drama and Guts
Julie Murphy's Dumplin’ (Ep 63 about the book & Ep 64 about the adaptation)
David Yoon’s Frankly in Love
Other Mentions
Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman’s Dry
R. J. Palacio’s Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories (including The Julian Chapter), White Bird: A Wonder Story
Click here to view the discussion between Jason Reynolds and Laurie Halse Anderson from Virginia Festival of the Book 2019
Give Me One - Something that Makes Us Happy
Jen - flowering trees and spring
Sara - red wine
Ashley - roller coasters
Interested in what else we're reading? Check out our Featured Books page.
Want to support Unabridged?
Check out our Merch Store!
Become a patron on Patreon.
Follow us @unabridgedpod on Instagram.
Like and follow our Facebook Page.
Subscribe to our YouTube channel.
Check out our Teachers Pay Teachers store.
Follow us @unabridgedpod on Twitter.
Subscribe to our podcast and rate us on Apple Podcasts or on Stitcher.
Check us out on Podbean.
Please note that we a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.