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 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
Interested in what else we're reading? Check out our Featured Books page.
Click here for a full transcript that you can read while listening, provided by otter.ai.
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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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Click here for a full transcript that you can read while listening, provided by otter.ai.
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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Click here for a full transcript that you can read while listening, provided by otter.ai.
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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)
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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
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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.
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