Unabridged: A Book Podcast

I Am More Playing Devil's Advocate: Siobhan Fallon's CONFUSION OF LANGUAGES (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: 0:00-0:57
*Main Discussion: 0:58-29:10
*​Book Pairings: 29:20-38:20
*Classroom Connections: 38:21-44:30
book pairings
*Sara - Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give
*Jenni - Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken
*Ashley - Brit Bennett's The Mothers
*Jen - Claire Fuller's Swimming Lessons​
other works mentioned
*Alan Gratz's Refugee
*Cynthia Kadohata's Half a World Away
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If I Don't Like It, I Ditch It: Unpopular Opinion Alert (Books Everyone Else Loved, But We Didn't) (Short)

books mentioned
*Jenni - Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
*Sara - Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge
*Ashley - E. Lockhart's We Were Liars
*Jen - Elizabeth Wein's Code Name Verity
​other books mentioned
*Elizabeth Strout's My Name Is Lucy Barton​
*J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series
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I Ran Out of Book Darts: Tomi Adeyemi's CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE (YA Book Club)

timeline
*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00-1:39
*Main Discussion: 1:40-42:40
​*Book Pairings: 43:24-50:14
*Classroom Connections: 50:15-53:50
book pairings
*Jen - Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
*Ashley - Kristin Cashore's Graceling
*Sara - William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer's The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope / Young Reader's Edition / Picture Book
other works mentioned
*William Kamkwamba's TED Talk
*The Atlantic review by Vann R. Newkirk II, "Where Fantasy Meets Black Lives Matter"
*Nic Stone's Dear Martin
*Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give
*Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely's All-American Boys 
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Any Aspiring Authors Out There? There's Your Window!: Favorite Current Reads (Short)

books mentioned
*Jenni - Melissa Hill's Keep You Safe
*Sara - Beth Vrabel's Caleb and Kit
*Ashley - Patricia McCormick's Never Fall Down
*Jen - Robin Sloan's Sourdough
​other books mentioned
*Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
*Robin Sloan's Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
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Can We Just Please Read the Rest of That?: Dane Hucklebridge's CASTLE OF WATER (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: 0:00-0:44
*Main Discussion: 0:45-29:32
*​Book Pairings: 29:38-39:21
*Classroom Connections: 39:22-45:03
 
book pairings
*Jen - F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
*Sara - Emily St. John Mendel's Station Eleven
*Ashley - Cormac McCarthy's The Road
*Jenni - Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies
 
books mentioned in classroom connections​​
*Sara - Lois Lowry's The Giver series
*Jenni - Louis Sachar's Holes
 
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Well, You Can't Skim: Favorite Audiobooks (Short)

​books mentioned
*Jen - As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes and Joe Layden, narrated by Cary Elwes
*Jenni - Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, narrated by Linda Stephens
*Ashley - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling, narrated by Jim Dale
*Sara - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman, narrated by George Newburn
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I Can Suspend Disbelief Like Crazy: Julie Buxbaum's TELL ME THREE THINGS (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: 0:00-0:53
*Main Discussion: 0:54-21:24
*​Spoilers: 4:49
*Book Pairings: 21:29-28:34
*Classroom Connections: 28:35-31:11
book pairings
*Jen - Gayle Forman's If I Stay
*Sara - Sharon Huss Roat's How to Disappear
*Ashley - Stephanie Perkins's Anna and the French Kiss
*Jenni - Susan Nielson's We Are All Made of Molecules
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I'm Not Stalking Her or Anything: Lit Chat #1 (Short)

books mentioned
*Sara - Atticus Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird
*Jen - Anne Shirley from Anne of Green Gables 
*Ashley - Jacqueline Woodson
*Jenni - Kwame Alexander
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I Want Somebody to Like: Fiona Barton's THE WIDOW (Book Club)

timeline
*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00-0:50
*Main Discussion: 0:51-27:31 --> Spoilers: 6:40 / 9:50--for real!
​*Book Pairings: 27:38-37:40
*Classroom Connections: 37:41-46:48
book pairings
*Ashley - Adam Ross's Mr. Peanut
*Jen - Stephen King's Full Dark, No Stars (the novella "A Good Marriage")
*Sara - Clare Mackintosh's I See You
*Jenni - S. J. Watson's Before I Go to Sleep
books mentioned in classroom connections
*Ashley - Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones
*Jen - Barry Lyga's I Hunt Killers
*Sara - Lisa McMann's Wake, Fade, and Gone
*Jenni - Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians (Now published as And Then There Were None)
 
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Three Mountains Away: HOW WE BECAME READERS (Short)

books and authors mentioned
*Mary Downing Hahn's Daphne's Book 
*Katherine Paterson's Jacob Have I Loved
*Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles
*Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
*Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind
 
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