Unabridged: A Book Podcast

In this Unabridged podcast episode, we're discussing some bookish turn offs we each have and when it's worth it to push past those turn offs (and when to accept them and move on!). We discuss tons of books including some of our collective favorites like John Boyne’s The Heart’s Invisible Furies, Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See, and Alan Gratz’s Refugee. While we each have different turn offs, we all agree that there are certainly things that attract us and repel us when it comes to choosing books, and it's fun to discuss what those are!

Ashley - Abi Daré’s The Girl with the Louding Voice

Sara - Riley Sager’s Lock Every Door

Books Mentioned

Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl

Miranda Popkey’s Topics of Conversation

Kate Quinn’s The Alice Network

Martha Hall Kelly’s The Lilac Girls

Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life

John Boyne’s The Heart’s Invisible Furies

Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones

Alice Sebold’s The Almost Moon

Alice Sebold’s Lucky

Paula Hawkins's The Girl on the Train

Blake Crouch's Dark Matter

Tatiana de Rosnay’s Sarah’s Key

Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief

Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See

Janie Chang’s The Library of Legends

Ruta Sepetys’s Salt to the Sea

George Takei’s They Called Us Enemy

Georgia Hunter’s We Were the Lucky Ones

Alan Gratz’s Refugee

Give Me One - A Show to Binge

Jen - Locke and Key (book), My Brilliant Friend (book)

Sara - Broadchurch, Cheer

Ashley - Schitt’s Creek

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In this episode, we have a great time discussing what we've each learned about the enneagram. We each chose a book (Ashley chose Millenneagram: The Enneagram Guide for Discovering Your Truest, Baddest Self, Jen chose The Essential Enneagram, and Sara chose The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery) to read that explored the enneagram, and we did our best to figure out our numbers. It was an adventure, and we had fun sharing with you! Stick around for our board game recs during our Give Me One at the end of the episode.

Bookish Check In

Jen - Maggie Stiefvater’s Call Down the Hawk

Sara - Ali Wong’s Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life

Ashley - Helen Hoang’s The Kiss Quotient

Enneagram Books We Each Read

Ashley - Hannah Paasch’s Millenneagram: The Enneagram Guide for Discovering Your Truest, Baddest Self

Jen - David Daniels, M.D., and Virginia Price, Ph.D.’s The Essential Enneagram

Sara - Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile's The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery 

Other Mentions

Free Enneagram Test that Ashley took

Paid Enneagram Test that Sara took

True Colors Personality Test

In this episode, we talk about what kinds of reads are bringing us comfort during these challenging times. Sara shares her love of cookbooks like Michelle Smith’s The Whole Smiths Good Food Cookbook, Ashley shares her love of poetry including the grief anthology Kevin Young’s The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing, and Jen shares some great fantasy reads that she's loving including Sarah J. Maas’s House of Earth and Blood. We'd love to know what you're reading that is bringing you comfort! Let us know here or on social media @unabridgedpod!

Bookish Check-in

Ashley - Louise Penny’s Still Life

Jen - Susannah Cahalan’s The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission that Changed Our Understanding of Madness

Sara - Katherine Center’s Things You Save in a Fire

Comfort Read Recommendations

Sara -

Cookbooks

Annie F. Downs’s 100 Days to Brave: Devotions for Unlocking Your Most Courageous Self

For our April Unabridged Book Club episode and discussion, we talk about Samira Ahmed's near-future YA literature novel, Internment (which was also our buddy read on Instagram in March!), and we make connections to other works including Mark Oshiro’s Anger Is a Gift, George Takei’s They Called Us Enemy, and Nic Stone’s Dear Martin. We end the episode by discussing some things that are helping us cope during this challenging time for our Give Me One. Join us all month on social media as we continue this discussion about Ahmed's Internment!

Timeline

Intro and Bookish Check In: 00:00 - 06:45

Book Club Discussion: 06:45 - 29:52

Give Me One: 40:00 - end

Bookish Check In

Ashley - Gary Schmidt’s The Wednesday Wars

Jen - Rebecca Serle’s In Five Years

Sara - Sarah Dunn’s The Arrangement

Our Pairings

Ashley - Mark Oshiro’s Anger Is a Gift

Jen - George Takei’s They Called Us Enemy

Sara - Nic Stone’s Dear Martin

Give Me One - One Thing Helping Us Cope

Ashley - Cincinnati Zoo Safari Live Events (on their Facebook page and on their YouTube channel) and spending time outside

Jen - Lego Masters show

Sara - FaceTime with family

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In this episode, we consider books that we'd recommend to students as great choices to read independently. As the world around us has drastically changed and continues changing, we decided on this topic and talked about some of our favorites, including R. J. Palacio's Wonder, Jenny Han's To All the Boys I've Loved Before series, Nicola Yoon's books, and anything by Jason Reynolds, as well as some other favorites. We focus our discussion on books we think students can access without teacher support and on books that are not extremely heavy but leave the reader with a sense of hope. (We shared our long list on our Bookish Faves post this past Monday.) Be sure to let us know ones you'd recommend on the comments here or on our Instagram posts.

In this episode, we had the wonderful experience of interviewing Whitney Conard from The Unread Shelf. She joins us for our bookish check-in (we're big Camille Pagán fans!), shares the origin story of The Unread Shelf Project, and offers tips to help all of us pare down those burdensome stacks of unread books. We round out our discussion with our "Give Me One" segment, talking about our favorite teas.

Bookish Check In

Jen - Camille Pagán’s Forever Is the Worst Long Time (on audio; narrator Timothy Andrés Pabon)

Sara - Knox McCoy’s All Things Reconsidered

Ashley - Helen Hoang’s The Bride Test

Whitney - Camille Pagán's This Won’t End Well

Other Mentions

The Popcast

Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Persephone Books

The Little Free Library program

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

Anne Cleeves - The Long Call

The Unread Shelf

Whitney's Email Course

Whitney's Post about Bookish App Recommendations

Join Whitney on this Journey - # theunreadsshelf + the year

Anne Bogel's podcast What Should I Read Next? - The life-changing magic of clearing your unread shelf

Madeline with Top Shelf Text on Instagram

Whitney's Top Tips for Your Unread Shelves

Count your unread books

Put all of the unread books in one place

Prioritize the top reads for you

Figure out your barriers and figure out how to overcome them

JUST READ!

Give Me One - Favorite Teas

Sara - Harney & Sons’ Hot Cinnamon Spice Tea (Black Tea with Orange and Sweet Clove), Herbal Element tea company

Ashley - Chai (Equal Exchange Organic Chai, 20-Count - Pack of 3)

Jen - Peppermint tea when sick

Whitney's recommendations - Irish Breakfast or Assam blend for coffee drinkers, Simpson and Vail tea company's author line (especially Jane Austen blend), Celestial Seasoning's Bengal Spice

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

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Please note that we a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.

In this episode, we had the wonderful experience of interviewing Whitney Conard from The Unread Shelf. She joins us for our bookish check-in (we're big Camille Pagán fans!), shares the origin story of The Unread Shelf Project, and offers tips to help all of us pare down those burdensome stacks of unread books. We round out our discussion with our "Give Me One" segment, talking about our favorite teas.

Bookish Check In

Jen - Camille Pagán’s Forever Is the Worst Long Time (on audio; narrator Timothy Andrés Pabon)

Sara - Knox McCoy’s All Things Reconsidered

Ashley - Helen Hoang’s The Bride Test

Whitney - Camille Pagán's This Won’t End Well

Other Mentions

The Popcast

Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Persephone Books

The Little Free Library program

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

Anne Cleeves - The Long Call

The Unread Shelf

Whitney's Email Course

Whitney's Post about Bookish App Recommendations

Join Whitney on this Journey - # theunreadsshelf + the year

Anne Bogel's podcast What Should I Read Next? - The life-changing magic of clearing your unread shelf

Madeline with Top Shelf Text on Instagram

Whitney's Top Tips for Your Unread Shelves

Count your unread books

Put all of the unread books in one place

Prioritize the top reads for you

Figure out your barriers and figure out how to overcome them

JUST READ!

Give Me One - Favorite Teas

Sara - Harney & Sons’ Hot Cinnamon Spice Tea (Black Tea with Orange and Sweet Clove), Herbal Element tea company

Ashley - Chai (Equal Exchange Organic Chai, 20-Count - Pack of 3)

Jen - Peppermint tea when sick

Whitney's recommendations - Irish Breakfast or Assam blend for coffee drinkers, Simpson and Vail tea company's author line (especially Jane Austen blend), Celestial Seasoning's Bengal Spice

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

Want to support Unabridged?

Check out our Merch Store! Become a patron on Patreon.​

Follow us @unabridgedpod on Instagram.

Like and follow our Facebook Page.

Subscribe to our YouTube channel.

Check out our Teachers Pay Teachers store.

Follow us @unabridgedpod on Twitter.

Subscribe to our podcast and rate us on Apple Podcasts or on Stitcher.

Check us out on Podbean.

Please note that we a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.