The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer - Our Fascinating Discussion (Book Club)

Spoilers are inevitable throughout our book club discussion, so consider whether or not to listen if you haven't yet read the book The Female Persuasion!​timeline
*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 00:00 - 01:58
*Main Discussion: 01:58 - 49:11
*​Book Pairings: 49:21 - 56:59
*Classroom Connections: 57:00 - 00:00
book pairings 
*Ashley - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's We Should All Be Feminists 
*Jen - ​Rebecca Solnit's Men Explain Things to Me
*Sara - The Radical Element: Twelve Stories of Daredevils, Debutants, and Other Dauntless Girls edited by Jessica Spotswood
other mentions 
*Meg Wolitzer's Belzhar and The Ten-Year Nap
*Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
*Christina Dalcher’s Vox
*Naomi Alderman’s The Power
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Bonus Episode - Unabridged Turns One!

Bonus Episode - Unabridged Turns One!
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It's hard to believe, but it has been a year since we launched the Unabridged Podcast. Here are a few things we're celebrating: -- Unabridged Book Club-- Our Patreon Page-- The Unabridged Newsletter -- Author Interviews (coming soon!)-- Classroom VisitsMost especially, we are celebrating YOU, our listeners and supporters! We so appreciate you. Be sure to check out our episode and social media pages to enter our latest GIVEAWAY!
 
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You Have the Power: A Discussion with College Students about Isabel Quintero's GABI, A GIRL IN PIECES (Highlight)

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*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00 - 03:49
*Main Discussion: 03:50 - ​36:01
other mentions 
*J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
*Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series
*William Shakespeare's Hamlet
*Charles Dickens's Great Expectations
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A Giant Pile: Anticipated Books for 2019 (Short)

Podcast Episode 57 - A Giant Pile: Anticipated Books for 2019
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our anticipated reads
*Jen -
*Helen Oyeyemi’s Gingerbread
*Dane Huckelbridge’s No Beast So Fierce
*Karen Thompson Walker’s The Dreamers
*Patrick Rothfuss’s Doors of Stone
*Rainbow Rowell’s Wayward Son
*Leigh Bardugo's King of Scars
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*Ashley - 
*Myquillyn Smith’s The Cozy Minimalist Home
*Angie Thomas's On the Come Up
*Laini Taylor’s Muse of Nightmares
*Yara Zgheib’s The Girls at 17 Swann Street
*Children’s book - Kwame Alexander's The Undefeated, illustrated by Kadir Nelson
 
*Sara - 
*Taylor Jenkins Reid's Daisy Jones and the Six
*Busy Phillips’s This Will Only Hurt a Little 
*Tommy Orange’s There, There
*Tracey Garvis Graves’s The Girl He Used to Know
other mentions
*Taylor Jenkins Reid's The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
*Myquillyn Smith's The Nesting Place
*Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give
*Dane Huckelbridge's Castle of Water
*John Vaillant's The Tiger
*Karen Thompson Walker’s The Age of Miracles 
*Tomi Adeyemi's Children of Blood and Bone and Children of Virtue and Vengeance
*Laini Taylor's Strange the Dreamer
*Rainbow Rowell's Carry On and Eleanor and Park
*Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom
*Leigh Bardugo's Grisha series, starting with Shadow and Bone
 
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I Will Qualify Them All: Unabridged Awards (Highlight)

favorites by category mentioned in episode
*Jen -
*Most devastating, gorgeous novel that alternates between time periods - Rebecca Makkai’s The Great Believers
*Most satisfying end of a long series that I’ve been reading for years - Sarah J. Maas’s Kingdom of Ash
 
*Ashley - 
*Best memoir that left me tearing up every five minutes - Michelle Obama’s Becoming
*Best YA verse novel that includes brilliant slam poetry - Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X
 
*Sara - 
*Best book I thought I would hate, but ended up LOVING - Rebecca Serle’s The Dinner List
*Most compelling non-fiction that I have read in a LONG time. - John Carreyrou’s Bad Blood​
not my cup of tea
*Ashley - Angelo Surmelis’s The Dangerous Art of Blending In
*Jen - Ariel Lawhon’s I Was Anastasia
*Sara - Emily Giffin’s All We Ever Wanted
favorites by category - children's books 
*Ashley - A book I’ve decided my girls will absolutely have to read (I hope… fingers crossed that they will like it) - Kelly Barnhill’s The Girl Who Drank the Moon
*Jen - A book I immediately had to read with my son - Jacqueline Woodson’s Harbor Me
*Sara - A book filled with nostalgia that I HAD to share with my kids  - Barbara Robinson's The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
favorites from the podcast
*Ashley - Emily X. R. Pan’s The Astonishing Color of After
*Jen - Tara Westover’s Educated
*Sara - Dane Huckelbridge’s Castle of Water
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A Part of Our History: Justina Ireland's DREAD NATION (Book Club)

Justina Ireland's Dread Nation
 
timeline
*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00 - 02:10
*Main Discussion: 02:11 - 40:54
*​Book Pairings: 40:55 - 46:17
*Classroom Connections: 46:18 - 49:04
book pairings 
*Jen - Patrick Ness’s The Knife of Never Letting Go
*Ashley - Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone (Listen to our podcast episode here)
*Sara - Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments series
other mentions 
*The Walking Dead TV series
*Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games
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Not Guilty Enough: Confessing Our Literary Sins (Short)

mentioned in episode
*Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
*Jane Austen's Emma
*Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
*F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby​
 
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Holiday Wrap-Up! (Short)

In this special holiday episode, we're wrapping up three of our favorite Unabridged Short Story episodes!timeline​Click the episode title to access show notes:
*Episode 35, "Books We Don't Recommend but Would Love to Discuss" (01:33 - 14:26)
*Episode 33, "Guilty Pleasure Reads" (14:36 - 26:55)
*Episode 31, "Book-to-Screen Adaptations" (27:04 - end)
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Our Confessions Being Made: Beat the Holiday Reading Slump (Highlight)

children's anthologies mentioned in episode
*Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls edited by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo
*We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices edited by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson
anthologies mentioned in episode
Jen -
*Here We Are: 44 Voices Write, Draw, and Speak about Feminism for the Real World edited by Kelly Jensen
*Flying Lessons & Other Stories edited by Ellen Oh
*Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles edited by Natalie C. Parker
 
Ashley - 
*#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women edited Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale
*Anthology of Motherhood edited by Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright
*Because I Was a Girl edited by Melissa de la Cruz
 
Sara - 
*Girls Write Now: Two Decades of True Stories by Young Female Voices edited by Girls Write Now
*All the Women in My Family Sing: Women Write the World: Essays on Equality, Justice, and Freedom (Nothing But the Truth So Help Me God) edited by Deborah Santana and America Ferrera
*My True Love Gave to Me: 12 Holiday Stories edited by Stephanie Perkins
other mentions
*Chimamanda Ngozi's We Should All Be Feminists
*Women of NASA Lego Set
*You Should Meet Collector's Set: Women Who Launched the Computer Age; Mae Jemison; Misty Copeland; Jesse Owens; Duke Kahanamoku; Katherine Johnson 
*Barack Obama's Of Thee I Sing
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It Is Just So Precious: Our Kids' Current Reads (Short)

works mentioned in episode
Jen -
--> 11-year-old
*Stuart Gibbs’s series, particularly Spy School books
*Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid
*Christopher Paolini’s Eragon
 
--> 8-year-old
*Jeff Smith’s Bone series
*Geronimo Stilton’s Kingdom of Fantasy series
*Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid series 
 
Ashley - 
--> 2-year-old and 4-year-old
*Susan Verde and artist Peter H. Reynolds’s I Am Peace: A Book of Mindfulness 
*Susan Verde and artist Peter H. Reynolds’s I Am Human: A Book of Empathy
*Sheila Hamanaka’s All the Colors of the Earth
*Barack Obama’s Of Thee I Sing with illustrations by Loren Long
 
Sara -
-->10-year-old
*Jason Reynolds’s Miles Morales Spiderman
*Stephen McCranie’s Mal and Chad graphic novels 
 
-->7-year-old
*Jennifer Fosberry’s My Name Is Not Isabella: Just How Big Can a Little Girl Dream?
*Meghan McCarthy's Dare Devil: The Daring Life of Betty Skeleton
*Lina Maslo’s Free as a Bird: The Story of Malala
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