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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Wednesday Jul 31, 2019
Wednesday Jul 31, 2019
We could NOT be more excited about launching Season 3!!!! We have so much good stuff planned for this upcoming season and are looking forward to reaching more readers and more teachers and more listeners.In this episode, we highlight some upcoming episodes, new offerings on Teachers Pay Teachers, and ways you can become involved in our podcast discussions.Tune in to find out what we have planned, and be sure to find us on social media!
books mentioned
*Elizabeth Acevedo's With the Fire on High
*Kelly Yang's Front Desk
*Padma Venkatraman's The Bridge Home
*Cherie Dimaline's The Marrow Thieves
other mentions
*Our Patreon Page
*Our Teachers Pay Teachers Store
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Wednesday Jul 24, 2019
Wednesday Jul 24, 2019
What says summer more than curling up with a good book and a nice glass of . . . something? Unabridged dives into book and drink pairings in this episode. We share some books we've read, some books we hope to read, and the drinks that pop into our minds (sometimes spontaneously, and sometimes after a bit of Googling).After you listen, head over to social media to let us know what you think of our recommendations and what you'd recommend! You can find us @unabridgedpod on Instagram and Twitter, at Unabridged on Litsy, and on Facebook.
books mentioned
Jen's Picks
*Laura Dave’s Eight Hundred Grapes paired with wine (Thalia 2017 from Muse Vineyards)
*Megan Abbott’s Give Me Your Hand or You Will Know Me (TBR) - Mole Hill American Imperial Stout (Brothers Craft Brewing)
Ashley's Picks
*Pat Conroy's Beach Music paired with a Negroni (gin, vermouth, and campari)
*Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My Sister, the Serial Killer with a Mind Eraser (kahlua, vodka, soda) from this post
Sara's Picks
*Jane Harper's The Dry paired with a Diablo cocktail (tequila, creme de cassis, lime juice, ginger ale) or a Foster's beer or Victoria Bitter beer
*Linda Francis Lee's The Glass Kitchen with Apple Pie drink (apple schnapps and a splash of cinnamon schnapps)
other mentions
*Jane Harper's The Lost Man and Force of Nature
*Episode 68 - Books about Food
*Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate
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Wednesday Jul 17, 2019
Wednesday Jul 17, 2019
Back in January, we shared the books that we planned (or hoped?) to read this year. Now, it's time to share our progress. Have we read all of them? Nope. But we've made a valiant effort. (Or at least an effort.)What was on your TBR list for 2019? How are you doing? We'd love to hear about your successes and failures, the books you've loved and the ones that have disappointed you, over on social media. Check us out on Facebook and everywhere else @unabridgedpod.
books we've readJen’s Update
*Helen Oyeyemi’s Gingerbread
*Karen Thompson Walker’s The Dreamers
*Leigh Bardugo's King of Scars
Ashley’s Update
*Laini Taylor’s Muse of Nightmares
*Children’s book - Kwame Alexander's The Undefeated, illustrated by Kadir Nelson
Sara’s Update
*Taylor Jenkins Reid's Daisy Jones and the Six
*Busy Phillips’s This Will Only Hurt a Little
*Tracey Garvis Graves’s The Girl He Used to Know
other mentions
*Karen Thompson Walker's The Age of Miracles
*Laini Taylor's Daughter of Smoke and Bone series
*Myquillyn Smith’s The Cozy Minimalist Home
*Angie Thomas's On the Come Up
*Laini Taylor's Strange the Dreamer
*Yara Zgheib’s The Girls at 17 Swann Street
*Tommy Orange’s There, There
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Wednesday Jul 10, 2019
Wednesday Jul 10, 2019
In this summer highlights episode, we're sharing three of our most popular Unabridged Short Story episodes! You can join us on the Rainbow Rowell Train, pick up some steamy recommendations, and learn all about our worst (or maybe best?) literary sins.We'd love to hear your newest recommendations for our TBR, your best steamy picks, and (of course!) your true confessions.
timelineClick the episode title to access show notes and links to the books mentioned:
*Episode 57, "Anticipated Reads of 2019" (01:58 - 20:50)
*Episode 33, "Love is in the Air" (21:00 - 40:40)
*Episode 54, "Confessing Our Literary Sins" (40:50 - 55:06)
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Wednesday Jul 03, 2019
Wednesday Jul 03, 2019
Spoilers are inevitable throughout our discussion of Tara Westover's Educated, so consider whether or not to listen if you haven't yet read the book!timeline
*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00 - 01:10
*Main Discussion: 01:11 - 51:47
*Book Pairings: 51:57 - 58:39
*Classroom Connections: 58:40 - 63:05
book pairings
*Jen - Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle
*Ashley - Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible
*Sara - Ruth Wariner's The Sound of Gravel
*Ruth Reichl's Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
other mentions in classroom connections
*Sara - Dave Pelzer's A Child Called "It"
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Wednesday Jun 26, 2019
Wednesday Jun 26, 2019
The Unabridged crew took time in our most recent short episode (#unabridgedshorts) to recommend books to each other, which was fun . . . and a little scary! (It's weirdly vulnerable.) Check out what we chose to recommend for each other, and let us know if you have other books you think we'd would appreciate (or, of course, if you think we got something really wrong!).
Jen’s Recs--> For Ashley -
*Ingrid Rojas Contreras’s Fruit of the Drunken Tree
*Sujata Massey’s The Widows of Malabar Hill
--> For Sara -
*Laura Lippman’s Sunburn
*John Boyne’s The Heart’s Invisible Furies
Ashley’s Recs--> For Sara -
*Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom
*Stephanie Perkins’s Lola and the Boy Next Door and Anna and the French Kiss
--> For Jen -
*A. Sivandan’s When Memory Dies
*Don Delillo’s White Noise and Underworld
Sara’s Recs--> For Ashley -
*Renee Watson’s Piecing Me Together
*Laurie Halse Anderson’s Chains (The Seeds of America Trilogy)
--> For Jen-
*Knox McCoy’s The Wondering Years
*Louise Penny's Still Life
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Saturday Jun 22, 2019
Saturday Jun 22, 2019
In this Unabridged bonus episode, Ashley interviews Jess Balac from the Collins Center in Harrisonburg, VA, who works with local preschool and elementary school kids to teach sexuality education and to promote healthy attitudes toward bodies and relationships.
books mentioned
*Robie Harris's It's NOT the Stork!: A Book about Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies, Families, and Friends (for ages 4 and up)
*Robie Harris's It's So Amazing: A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families (for ages 7 and up)
*Robie Harris's It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health (for ages 10 and up)
additional resources
*Siegel, Daniel J, M.D., and Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D., with The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
*The Collins Center Site
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Wednesday Jun 19, 2019
Wednesday Jun 19, 2019
For our last Unabridged Highlight episode of season 2, we're discussing the influence of one of our favorite YA authors, Laurie Halse Anderson. After seeing her at the Virginia Festival of the Book and reading her new memoir in verse Shout, we were inspired to consider her place in YA literature. It's the 20th anniversary of her seminal work Speak, and the new edition features some excellent resources and an afterword by Jason Reynolds, another Unabridged favorite. We were also happy to revisit a couple of other favorite novels. Take a listen, and then let us know @unabridgedpod what Laurie Halse Anderson and her work mean to you!
timeline
*Introduction and General Discussion: 00:00 - 13:37
*Shout: 13:38 - 25:30
*Speak: 25:30 - 40:30
*The Impossible Knife of Memory and Wintergirls: 40:31 - 57:00
other mentions
*The Virginia Festival of the Book (Listen to our episode on that experience here!)
*Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak: The Graphic Novel, illustrated by Emily Carroll
*Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
*Steve Mertzger's Huggapotamus, illustrated by Gabriele Antonini
*Chris Lynch's Inexcusable
*Portia de Rossi's Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
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Wednesday Jun 12, 2019
Wednesday Jun 12, 2019
We at Unabridged are SO. Excited. About summer! As unrepentant bookworms, we have been plotting and planning which books we can fit in over our summer break. We are therefore happy to share our Summer TBR lists with you (and with each other) in this #unabridgedshort.What's on your summer TBR? Let us know on social media (@unabridgedpod).
books mentioned Jen's TBR List
*Stephen and Owen King’s Sleeping Beauties
*Rainbow Rowell’s Carry On (to prep for the sequel!)
*Harry Potter series re-read! (starting with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)
Ashley's TBR List
*Tommy Orange’s There, There
*Mark Oshiro’s Anger Is a Gift
*Adib Khorram‘s Darius the Great Is Not Okay
Sara's TBR List
*Anna Todd’s After
*Riley Sager’s The Last Time I Lied
*Amy Meyerson’s The Bookshop of Yesterdays
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Wednesday Jun 05, 2019
Wednesday Jun 05, 2019
In this #unabridgedbookclub episode, we discuss Bryan Stevenson's nonfiction book Just Mercy. Stevenson discusses his work as an attorney with prisoners on death row and with individuals who were sentenced to life in prison when they were children.During our discussion, we strive to cover the plethora of issues raised by the book, including mass incarceration, the way we deal with mental disabilities and mental illness, the death penalty, and the role of poverty in the criminal justice system. Our conversation, like the book, is wide ranging both in topic and emotion as we reflect on what we gained from Stevenson's book. This truly is, as Sara says in the episode, a book that should be a "must read."
timeline
*Introduction: 00:00 - 01:42
*Just Mercy: 01:43 - 52:19
*Book Pairings: 52:30 - 61:10
*Classroom Connections: 61:15 - 64:04
book pairings
*Ashley - Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
*Jen - Ernest Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying
*Sara - Beth Macy’s Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
other mentions and additional resources
*Equal Justice Initiative
*"Michael B. Jordan Headlines Film Adaptation of Criminal Justice Memoir, 'Just Mercy'"
*"Lethal Injections: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)"
*Bryan Stevenson’s TED Talk: “We need to talk about an injustice”
*In the Dark Podcast (Season Two)
*Ian Richardson's Story
*Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
*Orange Is the New Black series
*Loving film
*Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “The Case for Reparations”
*Richard Wright's Black Boy and Native Son
*Patrisse Khan Cullers and Asha Bandele's When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
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