Unabridged: A Book Podcast

By Ashley Dickson-Ellison and Jen MoyersEducation Arts Books

Unabridged: A Book Podcast episodes

August 26, 2020 Patreon Preview - Book-to-Film Adaptation, Discussion of Stephenie Meyer's TWILIGHT
In this Unabridged episode, we give listeners a sneak peek into some of the content that we share on Patreon each month. In this one, after our bookish check-in, we share Jen and Sara's book-to-film adaptation discussion of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight. Don't miss the fun trivia! Stick around for the give me one where we share the best concerts we've ever attended!

Bookish Check-in
Ashley - Brandy Colbert’s The Voting Booth
Jen - Nadia Hashimi’s The Pearl that Broke Its Shell (@readwithtoni buddy read; check out our episode with Toni)
Sara - Lamar Giles’s Not So Pure and Simple

Mentioned in Episode
Tayari Jones’s An American Marriage
Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight and the film adaptation
The Lost Boys
Our Unabridged Podcast Patreon Page - patreon.com/unabridgedpod

Give Me One - Best Concert We've Attended
Ashley - U2 (with Nelly Furtado as the opening act)
Jenv- Goo Goo Dolls / No Doubt / Bush
Sarav- Goo Dollsv/ Bon Jovi

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55 min
August 19, 2020 Great Book Recommendations - Our Season 4 Recs for Each Other
In today's episode of the Unabridged Podcast, we each do our best to recommend a book that our friends and co-hosts will love. Be sure to listen to our Bookish Check-in and our Give Me One, where we pick a favorite karaoke song.

Bookish Check-in
Ashley - Thanhha Lai’s Inside Out and Back Again
Jen - Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic (@bookishladiesclub buddy read)
Sara - Lori Gottlieb’s Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

Main Discussion - Our Recs for Each Other
Ashley's Pick for Jen - Pénélope Bagieu’s Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World
Ashley's Pick for Sara - Dhonielle Clayton’s The Belles
Jen's Pick for Ashley - Kiley Reid’s Such a Fun Age
Jen's Pick for Sara - Rachel DeLoache Williams’s My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress
Sara's Pick for Ashley - R. Eric Thomas's Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America
Sara's Pick for Jen - Sharon Huss Roat’s How to Disappear

Give Me One - Song We’d Sing at Karaoke
Ashley - Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline”
Jen - “You’ll Be Back” from Hamilton
Sara - Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" and Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ on a Prayer”

Other Mentions
Dhonielle Clayton's The Everlasting Rose

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Go to our website for a transcript of the episode, or click here for a full transcript that you can read while listening, provided by otter.ai.
43 min
August 12, 2020 Dive into Nonfiction Reads
In this Unabridged podcast episode, we talk all things nonfiction, and we each make recommendations for nonfiction reads to dive into that we've loved. We talk about Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts, Kiese Layman's Heavy, Knox McCoy's All Things Reconsidered, and Phuc Tran’s Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In. As always, we find ways to talk about more books, too, and have lots of fun during our discussion. If you're interested in nonfiction reads, be sure to join us for our September book club choice, Chanel Miller's Know My Name.

Bookish Check-in
Ashley - Marie Lu’s Rebel
Jen - Adrienne Kisner’s Six Angry Girls
Sara - Chanel Miller’s Know My Name

Our Picks
Ashley - Kiese Laymon’s Heavy: An American Memoir
Jen - Phuc Tran’s Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
Sara - Knox McCoy’s All Things Reconsidered

Mentioned in Episode
Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts
Marie Lu's Legend, Prodigy and Champion
The Popcast
Episode 135 with Morgan Hoit, @NYCBookGirl, from Avid Reader Press
Episode 137, Stamped Book Club Discussion
Hamilton
Knox McCoy's The Wondering Years

Give Me One - What We Wanted to Be When We Grew Up
Jen - a nurse
Ashley - marine biologist
Sara - fashion designer

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51 min
August 05, 2020 Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi’s STAMPED: RACISM, ANTIRACISM, AND YOU - August 2020 Book Club
In this Unabridged Book Club discussion, we talk about Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You. This phenomenal book is a remix for young people of Kendi’s original Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, and we all felt that it was a phenomenal read and is such a great fit for the classroom.

Bookish Check-In
Ashley - Tiffany D. Jackson’s Monday’s Not ComingJen - Robert Kolker’s Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American FamilySara - Sheila Williams’s The Secret Women

Book Pairings

Ashley - Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele’s When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
Jen - Kwame Mbalia’s Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
Sara - Nic Stone’s Dear Martin and Rita Williams-Garcia’s One Crazy Summer

Give Me One - Favorite Dessert

Ashley - Oreo Ice Cream Dessert (This recipe is similar to the handwritten one I have)
Jen - Chocolate Chip Cookie Cheesecake Bars
Sara - Ice cream, but Sara also recommends Monster Cookie Dough Dip

Other Mentions

Tiffany D. Jackson's Allegedly
Jamie Golden with The Popcast
@readwithtoni buddy read for Hidden Valley Road (Don't miss our episode with Toni!)
the Hamilton musical
Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy
Unabridged Episode - Great Books for the Classroom Written by Black Authors
Revisionist History episode, "The Lady Vanishes" (Note: In the episode, Jen mentions a Freakonomics episode about the Prime Minister of New Zealand and says she'll check on the link. This episode of Revisionist History, about the Prime Minister of Australia, is the correct reference.)
Ibram X. Kendi's interview on Armchair Expert

Click here for a full transcript that you can read while listening, provided by otter.ai.

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July 29, 2020 Get to Know the Unabridged Podcast Hosts in 2020 - Season 3 Wrap-up
As we wrap up Season 3 of the Unabridged Podcast, Ashley, Jen, and Sara look back at Give Me One, a segment we introduced this season. After our Bookish Check-in, we each recommend a Give Me One, and then we end with an episode we recommend from the season.

Thank you so much for all of your support! We definitely are looking forward to Season 4.

Bookish Check-in
Ashley - Sandhya Menon’s 10 Things I Hate about Pinky
Jen - Roselle Lim’s Vanessa Yu’s Magical Paris Tea Shop (coming out August 4)
Sara - Farrah Rochon’s The Boyfriend Project

Discussion - Recommended Give Me One Segments from Season 3
Ashley - Episode 123 - A Worthwhile Purchase During Quarantine
Jen - Episode 113 - A YA Lit Favorite
Sara - Episode 104 - A Toy You Loved When You Were a Kid

Other Mentions
Roselle Lim's Natalie Tan's Book of Love and Fortune
Sandhya Menon's When Dimple Met Rishi
Emily X. R. Pan's The Astonishing Color of After
John Green's Turtles All the Way Down
Alix E. Harrow's The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give
Teachers Pay Teachers store
Asia Citro's The Curious Kid's Science Book: 100+ Creative Hands-On Activities for Ages 4-8
Asia Citro's 150+ Screen-Free Activities for Kids: The Very Best and Easiest Playtime Activities from FunAtHomeWithKids.com!
Kimberly McLeod's Fun and Easy Crafting with Recycled Materials: 60 Cool Projects that Reimagine Paper Rolls, Egg Cartons, Jars, and More
John Flanagan's Ranger's Apprentice series
Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi's Stamped: Racism, Anti Racism, and You

Give Me One - Recommended Episode from Season 3
Ashley - Episode 113 - Why Teach YA?
Jen - Episode 106 - 2019 Unabridged Awards
Sara - Episode 104 - Debate - What Makes a Holiday Movie?

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43 min
July 22, 2020 Books We'd Love to See Adapted with Morgan Hoit @NYCBookGirl
In this Unabridged Podcast episode, we have so much fun talking with Morgan Hoit, @NYCBookGirl, about book-to-screen adaptations. We talk about our latest reads, book-to-screen adaptations we have loved, and books that we would love to see adapted.

Bookish Check In
Ashley - Sally Rooney’s Normal People
Jen - Phuc Tran’s Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit in
Sara - Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park
Morgan - Chelsea Bieker's God Shot, Emma Straub's All Adults Here, Lorrie Moore's short stories

Our Book-to-Screen Adaptations
Ashley - Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible
Jen - Natalie Jenner’s The Jane Austen Society
Sara - Rainbow Rowell’s Carry On
Morgan - Adrienne Brodeur's Wild Game

Give Me One - Game Night Recommendations
Ashley - Exploding Kittens
Jen - Beyond Balderdash
Sara - Apples to Apples
Morgan - Anomia

Other Mentions
Cormac McCarthy's The Road
Lorrie Moore's Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
Garrett M. Graff's The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
Lisa Taddeo's Three Women
Hamilton
Lev Grossman's The Magicians book series and adaptation
Mikel Jollett's Hollywood Park
R. O. Kwan's The Incendiaries
Lauren Groff's Arcadia
Laurence Wright's Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief
Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle
Waco on Netflix
Avid Reader Imprint
Jenny Han's To All the Boys I've Loved Before - book and film adaptation
Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give - book and film adaptation
Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley
André Aciman's Call Me By Your Name
Lady Bird and Greta Gerwig
Screen adaptation of Sally Rooney's Normal People
Hannibal series, based on Thomas Harris's book Hannibal
Mary Ann Shaffer's The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society and the film version
The Harry Potter book series and film adaptations
The Twilight series and film adaptations
Cards Against Humanity (game)
The Oatmeal comic (by Matthew Inman, illustrator of Exploding Kittens)
What Do You Meme? (game)

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55 min
July 15, 2020 How to Find Joy - Discussing WHAT YOU WISH FOR with Katherine Center
In this Unabridged podcast episode, we're talking with Katherine Center about her latest book, What You Wish For, which released on July 14th. Katherine shares her first experience as a writer, writing fan fic about Duran Duran, why clown socks are the most fashionable apparel, and how she sets out to fight for joy.

Bookish Check-in
Ashley - Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half
Jen - Jennifer Weiner’s Big Summer
Sara - Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds’s Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning
Katherine - Will Storr's The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better

Other Mentions
Ibram X. Kendi's Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Brit Bennett's The Mothers
Katherine Center's Happiness for Beginners
Katherine Center's Things You Save in a Fire
Katherine Center's How to Walk Away
Katherine Center's The Lost Husband
Ingrid Fetell Lee’s Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness
Katherine Center's thoughts on reading for joy on her website
Archie comics
Stranger than Fiction

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July 08, 2020 Underrated Books and Authors with Mariely Sylvette Martinez of PodQueens Latinas
In this Unabridged Podcast episode, we have so much fun talking with Mariely Sylvette Martinez of PodQueens Latinas about underrated books and series. She joins us for our Bookish Check-in, and then we chat about what it means to be underrated and why some great books and authors don't seem to get as much buzz as others. Finally, we end with our Give Me One segment and recommend some podcasts that we're enjoying right now.
Bookish Check In
Ashley - Mindy McGinnis's A Madness So Discreet
Jen - Kel Kade's Fate of the Fallen
Sara - Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible
Mariely - Dr. Mayra Llado's Run Your Race: A Guide to Making Your Impossibles Possible

Our Underrated Books and Authors

Ashley - Laini Taylor
*Daughter of Smoke and Bone series
*Strange the Dreamer duology
*Faeries of Dreamdark duology - Blackbringer

Jen - Lauren Oliver
*Before I Fall
*Delirium
*Panic

Sara - Beth Vrabel's Caleb and Kit

Mariely - Mayra Llado's Run Your Race: A Guide to Making Your Impossibles Possible

Give Me One - Podcast
Ashley - NPR's Life Kit
Jen - NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour
Sara - By the Book Podcast
Mariely - Trailblazing Out of Corporate Life

Other Mentions
Podfest Multimedia Expo
@readwithtoni - Episode 126: Plugging into Bookish Communities Online with @readwithtoni from Instagram
Jack Canfield's The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Mindy McGinnis's Not a Drop to Drink and In a Handful of Dust
Green Valley Book Fair
Marie Lu's Rebel
Groundhog Day
Jack Canfield's Chicken Soup for the Soul
Brigid Kemmerer's A Curse So Dark and Lonely and A Heart So Fierce and Broken
Talia Hibbert's Get a Life, Chloe Brown
Sarah J. Maas - Throne of Glass and A Court of Thorns and Roses
Cassandra Clare - City of Bones
George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones, A Song of Ice and Fire series
Tomi Adeyemi's Children of Blood and Bone and Children of Virtue and Vengeance
The Popcast with Knox and Jamie
Rhonda Byrnes's The Secret
Marie Kondo's The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
Brandy Ferner's Adult Conversation - Episode 127: Parenting and Partner Tips with Brandy Ferner of ADULT CONVERSATION
Wow in the World

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52 min
July 01, 2020 Emily Henry's BEACH READ - July 2020 Book Club
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

Click here for a full transcript that you can read while listening, provided by otter.ai.

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55 min
June 24, 2020 2020 Reading Challenge Check In
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

Interested in what else we're reading? Check out our Featured Books page.

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