Unabridged: A Book Podcast

This Awkward Game . . . Unabridged Style: Bring Your Own Book Game #1 (Short)

Prompt #1: Clear evidence that it's time to call the doctor.
*Sara - Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere
*Jen - Helen Hoang's The Kiss Quotient
*Ashley - Mindy McGinnis's Not a Drop to Drink
Prompt #2: A quote someone would use as an email signature.
*Jen - Sandhya Menon's From Twinkle with Love
*Ashley - Cassandra Clare's The Clockwork Angel
*Sara - Curtis Sittenfeld's You Think It, I'll Say It
Prompt #3: The Moral of the Story Is...
*Ashley - Helena Maria Viramontes's Under the Feet of Jesus
*Jen - Becky Albertalli's Leah on the Offbeat
*Sara - Fredrik Backman's Beartown
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None of Us, I Should Say, Is a Physicist: Blake Crouch's DARK MATTER (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: 0:00-1:00
*Main Discussion: 1:01-35:49
*​Book Pairings: 36:00-43:56
*Classroom Connections: 43:57-49:50
book pairings
*Jen - Wes Moore’s The Other Wes Moore
*Ashley - Marcus Sedgwick’s Midwinterblood
*Sara - Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere
*Jenni - Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Maybe in Another Life
books mentioned in classroom connections
*Jenni - Mary Rodgers’s Freaky Friday and A Billion for Boris
*Sara - Edward Bloor’s Tangerine
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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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