Unabridged: A Book Podcast

This Is A Vulnerable Time For Us: Lit Chat Game #3 (Short)

books mentioned
*Sara - Rebecca Well's Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
*Jen -  Stephen King's Dark Tower series
*Ashley - Cassandra Clare's Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince, Clockwork Princess (box set)
*Jenni - Jen Lancaster's Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry a Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office
 
other works mentioned
*J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series (of course!)
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This Is the Slamming Doors Episode: Gabrielle Zevin's YOUNG JANE YOUNG (Book Club)

timeline
*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00-0:50
*Main Discussion: 0:51-41:50
*​Book Pairings: 41:51-53:37
*Classroom Connections: 53:38-59:09
book pairings
*Ashley - Lindy West's Shrill
*Sara - Jon Ronson's So You've Been Publicly Shamed
*Jen - Siobhan Vivian's The List
*Jenni - Gail Honeymoon's Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
books mentioned in classroom connections
*Jenni - Gordon Korman's Restart
*Sara - Laura Ruby's Good Girls
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I Had to Stop Somewhere: "Go To" Authors (Short)

books and authors mentioned
-Jen
*Margaret Atwood
*Laini Taylor
*Sarah J. Maas
*Tana French (The Dublin Murder Squad)
*Elizabeth George (The Inspector Lynley series) 
-Sara
*John Green
*Fredrik Backman
*Louise Penny (the Inspector Armand Gamache series)
-Ashley
*Cormac McCarthy (Blood Meridian)
*Toni Morrison (The Bluest Eye) 
*Cassandra Clare (The Infernal Devices series)
*Leigh Bardugo (Six of Crows #1 & #2, The Grisha Verse #1-3)​
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More Ugly Tears from Jen: Robin Benway's FAR FROM THE TREE (YA Book Club)

Spoilers are inevitable throughout our discussion, so consider whether or not to listen if you haven't yet read the book! 
timeline
*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00-01:17
*Main Discussion: 01:18-43:05
*​Book Pairings: -43:13-51:34
*Classroom Connections: -51:34-56:18
book pairings
*Sara - Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
*Jen - Little and Lion by Brandy Colbert
*Ashley - I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
*Jenni - My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult 
*Other mentions: This Is Us TV Series
books mentioned in classroom connections​
*Jenni - One for the Murphys by Lynda Hunt and The Pinballs by Betsy Byars
*Sara - Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
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Rollin' in on the Party Bus: Kwame Alexander's SOLO (YA Book Club)

Spoilers are inevitable throughout our discussion, so consider whether or not to listen if you haven't yet read the book!
timeline
*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00-0:51
*Main Discussion: 0:51-30:32
*​Book Pairings: 30:40-44:25
*Classroom Connections: 44:25-50:05
book pairings
*Jenni - Jonellen Heckler's White Lies
*Jen - Jeff Zentner's The Serpent King
*Sara - Ellen Hopkins's Crank
*Ashley - Jacqueline Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming
other books mentioned
*Kwame Alexander's Booked and Crossover and picture books
*S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders
*Matt de la Pena's article Sometimes the Tough Teen Is Quietly Writing Stories 
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I Am Having a Huge Guilt Trip Over Here: Favorite Memoirs (Short)

books mentioned
*Jenni - Trevor Noah's Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood and Roxane Gay's Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
*Sara - Tina Fey's Bossypants
*Ashley - Michael Greenberg's Hurry Down Sunshine: A Father's Story of Love and Madness
*Jen - Shonda Rhimes's Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person and Diane Guerrero's In the Country We Love: My Family Divided
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Walking Around in Our Pajamas: Laurie Frankel's THIS IS HOW IT ALWAYS IS (Book Club)

Spoilers are inevitable throughout our discussion, so consider whether or not to listen if you haven't yet read the book!timeline
*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00-0:34
*Main Discussion: 0:35-25:23
*​Book Pairings: 25:31-35:15
*Classroom Connections: 35:16-41:22
book pairings & other connections
*Jen - R. J. Palacio's Wonder
*Ashley - David Levithan's Every Day
*Sara - John Green and David Levithan's Will Grayson, Will Grayson
*Jenni - Monica McInerny's Hello from the Gillespies
*Check out this great NPR article with Laurie Frankel
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She's the OG in Dystopian YA: Favorite Dystopian Novels (Short)

books mentioned
*Jen - Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
*Jenni - Susan Beth Pfeffer's Life As We Knew It
*Ashley - Marie Lu's Legend
*Sara - Ally Condie's Matched
other works mentioned
*Lois Lowry's  The Giver series
*Veronica Roth's Divergent Series
*Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games series​
*Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale television series
*Marie Lu's Prodigy
*Marie Lu's Champion
*Susan Beth Pfeffer's The Dead and the Gone
 
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I Was Using Book Darts All Over the Place: Emily X. R. Pan's THE ASTONISHING COLOR OF AFTER (Book Club)

Spoilers are inevitable throughout our discussion, so consider whether or not to listen if you haven't yet read the book!
timeline
*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00-01:08
*Main Discussion: 01:08-45:17
*​Book Pairings: 46:03-51:06
*Classroom Connections: 51:07-54:39
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book pairings
*Jen - ​​​Toni Morrison's Beloved
*Sara - Laurie Halse Anderson's The Impossible Knife of Memory
*Ashley - Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior
 
other mentions
*Kelly Jensen's podcast - Hey YA
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We Are All Really Frightened: Lit Chat #2 (Short)

books mentioned
*Sara - Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See
*Jen - J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series
*Ashley - Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give
*Jenni - R.J. Palacio's Wonder
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