Unabridged: A Book Podcast
Unabridged is a bookish podcast hosted by teachers. We release episodes twice a month, including a monthly Book Club episode and other bookish topics full of recommendations for your TBR list. Join us for bookish fun at our website unabridgedpod.com, on social media @unabridgedpod, or via email at unabridgedpod@gmail.com.
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Episodes
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
In this episode of Unabridged, we talk about our reading challenge choices for 2021, including the Unabridged Reading Challenge that we're doing together and our personal choices for an additional reading challenge. We'd love for you to join us for the #unabridgedpodreadingchallenge this year—check out this page for everything you need to dive right in!
Visit the Unabridged website for our full show notes and links to the books mentioned in the episode. Interested in what else we're reading? Check out our Featured Books page.
Want to support Unabridged?Follow us @unabridgedpod on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter. | Join our Unabridged Podcast Reading Challenge. | Visit our curated list of books at Bookshop.org. | Become a patron on Patreon. | Check out our Merch Store. | Visit the resources available in our Teachers Pay Teachers store.
Friday Jan 22, 2021
Friday Jan 22, 2021
In this Unabridged Episode, Sara discusses creating connections with six word memoirs and ideas on how to use six word memoirs across the curriculum. Let us know some of your ideas on how to use six word memoirs in your classroom!
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.
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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.
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Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
In this episode of the Unabridged Podcast, Ashley, Jen, and Sara chat with Adam Schaeuble, host of the Million Pound Mission podcast (now called the Low Carb Hustle podcast) and the Podcasting Business School podcast. After our Bookish Check-in, Adam joins in recommending behavioral science books that can help everyone reach their life goals in 2021. If you have resolutions that you'd like to reach, be sure to check out the episode, and if you have your own self-help books to share, let us know @unabridgedpod!
Visit the Unabridged website for our full show notes and links to the books mentioned in the episode.
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 Jan 13, 2021
Wednesday Jan 13, 2021
In this episode of the Unabridged Podcast, Ashley, Jen, and Sara offer up their book awards for 2020. After sharing their Bookish Check-ins, they each present their award categories and their book picks, which include adult and young adult titles. They end the episode with Non-Bookish Awards.
Bookish Check-in
Ashley - Talia Hibbert’s Take a Hint, Dani Brown
Jen - Lisa Ko’s The Leavers
Sara - Liz Moore’s Long Bright River
Our Book Picks for Our 2020 Unabridged Awards
Ashley -
A Romance Book that Taught Me I Can Love Love Books - Helen Hoang’s The Bride Test
A New to Me Book that is Fascinating and Important - Brittany Morris’s SLAY (YA Lit Pick)
Jen -
Favorite Re-Read that Was a New Discovery - Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible
A New Take on an Old Subject - Traci Chee’s We Are Not Free (YA Lit Pick)
Sara -
Favorite Memoir that Made Me Laugh Out Loud - R. Eric Thomas’s Here For It
Most Important Book of the Year - Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (YA Lit Pick)
Other Mentions
Casey McQuiston's Red, White, and Royal Blue
Farrah Rochon's The Boyfriend Project
Helen Hoang's The Kiss Quotient
Beth Macy's Dopesick
Schitt's Creek
Ted Lasso
Fleabag
Previous Awards Episodes
Interested in more awards? Here are the Unabridged Podcast Awards episodes from 2019 and 2018.
Awards for 2019
Awards for 2018
Give Me One - Non-Bookish Unabridged Awards
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.
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Check out our Teachers Pay Teachers store.
Follow us @unabridgedpod on Twitter.
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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.
Friday Jan 08, 2021
Friday Jan 08, 2021
In this Unabridged Episode, Jen discusses taking a pause to reflect on changes for the remainder of the school year, including questions to ask, practices to improve, and focuses to implement.
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.
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Check out our Teachers Pay Teachers store.
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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 Jan 06, 2021
Wednesday Jan 06, 2021
In the first book club discussion of 2021, we are thrilled to discuss Adib Khorram's Darius the Great Is Not Okay. This brilliant young adult lit book addresses so many important topics including family heritage, bullying, friendship, family dynamics, managing depression, and so many other issues with nuance and humor. If you're interested in discussing this one, it's also our Unabridged Podcast Buddy Read this month! We'll be talking about it on January 11th and 25th on Instagram. Just message us to join!
Bookish Check-in
Ashley - Marie Lu’s Skyhunter
Jen - Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers
Sara - Rachel Hawkins’s The Wife Upstairs
Our Pairings
Ashley - David Yoon’s Frankly in Love
Jen - Erika L. Sánchez’s I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Sara - Sarah Moon’s Sparrow
Mentioned in Episode
Charles Portis’s True Grit
A. S. King’s Everybody Sees the Ants
Leigh Bardugo’s Crooked Kingdom
Neil Shusterman’s Scythe
Brigid Kemmerer’s A Curse So Dark and Lonely
Give Me One - A Series You Want to Finish but Haven't
Listen in to hear our responses to this great topic suggested by one of our Unabridged Ambassadors! (Click to learn more about the ambassador program!)
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.
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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 Dec 30, 2020
Wednesday Dec 30, 2020
In this episode of the Unabridged Podcast, after their Bookish Check-ins, Ashley, Jen, and Sara share books they're excited to read in 2021. These are all books by some of their favorite authors, so they also talk about their histories with the authors' previous works. Then, they conclude the episode with the Give Me One segment, sharing some memories of childhood gifts they received from Santa.
Bookish Check-in
Ashley - Chip and Dan Heath’s The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary
Jen - Kate Stayman-London’s One to Watch
Sara - James Clear’s Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Our Picks for 2021 Books We're Excited to Read
Ashley - Nicola Yoon’s Instructions for Dancing (June 3)
Jen - John Green’s The Anthropocene Reviewed (May 18)
Sara - Angie Thomas’s Concrete Rose (January 12, 2021)
Mentioned in Episode
John Green's An Abundance of Katherines
Nicola Yoon's Everything, Everything and The Sun Is Also a Star
Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give and On the Come Up
Give Me One - Memorable Gift from Santa
Listen in to hear special items from childhood that we loved!
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.
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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.
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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.
Sunday Dec 27, 2020
Sunday Dec 27, 2020
In this bonus episode of the Unabridged Podcast, we share the 2021 Unabridged Podcast Reading Challenge. We hope these categories give you a little push to try some new things in 2021! In episodes through the rest of Season 4, we'll be sharing books that meet the Challenge's categories. And keep an eye on our Bookish Faves and social media (especially our Instagram feed and the Unabridged Book Club Group on Facebook), which will also offer ideas and discussion to help you succeed in meeting the Challenge.
At the end of 2021, for those who have completed the Challenge, we'll have a giveaway!
You can download your own copy of the Reading Challenge here. Share your bookish posts on IG using #unabridgedpodreadingchallenge for extra entries in the giveaway.
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 Dec 23, 2020
Wednesday Dec 23, 2020
In this Unabridged Podcast episode, we give you a glimpse into our Patreon content with an Unabridged Uncensored recording from Ashley and Sara. Don't miss out on our opinions about a popular thriller, Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl.
Bookish Check-in
Ashley - TJ Klune’s The House in the Cerulean Sea
Jen - Kevin van Whye’s Date Me, Bryson Keller
Sara - Melanie Shankle’s On the Bright Side
Mentioned in Episode
The Sixth Sense
Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl
Gone Girl - the film adaptation
The Matrix
The Popcast
The Big Boo Cast
Totally Teen Buddy Read on Instagram
Give Me One - Favorite Christmas Movie
Listen in for our favorites, and let us know yours on social media!
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.
Friday Dec 18, 2020
Friday Dec 18, 2020
In this Unabridged Teaching Tidbits episode, Ashley talks about incorporating more hands-on activities into the classroom (or at home), and she shares three of her favorite books for making it easier to find and do activities with kids. Ashley shares two books by Asia Citro, creator of Fun at Home with Kids. Ashley talks about 150+ Screen-Free Activities for Kids: The Very Best and Easiest Playtime Activities from FunAtHomeWithKids.com! and The Curious Kid's Science Book: 100+ Creative Hands-On Activities for Ages 4-8. Then, she shares about Kimberly McLeod's Easy Fun and Easy Crafting with Recycled Materials: 60 Cool Projects that Reimagine Paper Rolls, Egg Cartons, Jars and More!. Ashley also mentions supplies it helps to have available for activities, especially these liquid watercolors. These books are great resources for teachers and moms, and any one of them would be a great gift option!