For our November Book Club, we're discussing Maggie O'Farrell's I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death, our first Unabridged Readers' Choice pick! This collection of connected essays elicited a different reaction from each of us . . . some of us definitely liked it more than others.

timeline

*Introduction and General Discussion: 00:00 - 39:28

*Book Pairings: 39:39 - 46:18

*Classroom Connections: 46:19 - 50:18

*Give Me One: 50:19 - 52:58

book pairings

*Ashley - Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club​

*Jen - Jesmyn Ward's Men We Reaped

*Sara - Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge -- Listen to Sara's perspective on this novel in Episode 16, Unpopular Opinion Alert

other mentions

*Lorrie Moore's short story collections such as Birds of America, including the short story "How" from her collection Self-Help

*Elizabeth Strout's Olive, Again​​

give me one - super hero edition

*Jen's pick - Captain America

*Sara's pick - Wonder Woman

*Ashley's pick - Black Panther

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For our November Book Club, we're discussing Maggie O'Farrell's I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death, our first Unabridged Readers' Choice pick! This collection of connected essays elicited a different reaction from each of us . . . some of us definitely liked it more than others.

timeline

*Introduction and General Discussion: 00:00 - 39:28

*Book Pairings: 39:39 - 46:18

*Classroom Connections: 46:19 - 50:18

*Give Me One: 50:19 - 52:58

book pairings

*Ashley - Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club​

*Jen - Jesmyn Ward's Men We Reaped

*Sara - Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge -- Listen to Sara's perspective on this novel in Episode 16, Unpopular Opinion Alert

other mentions

*Lorrie Moore's short story collections such as Birds of America, including the short story "How" from her collection Self-Help

*Elizabeth Strout's Olive, Again​​

give me one - super hero edition

*Jen's pick - Captain America

*Sara's pick - Wonder Woman

*Ashley's pick - Black Panther

*Check out what's coming up next.

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Join us for our 2019 edition of Spooky Stories! ​​We're here again this season to share with you our latest seasonal and spooky favorites. We'll talk the latest books (including Shea Ernshaw's Winterwood, coming out on November 5th... SO GOOD!), and we will share our thoughts about some of the Book of the Month picks from this season (including Alex North's The Whisper Man, Alex Michaelides’s The Silent Patient, and Riley Sager's The Last Time I Lied). 

our spooky picks

Jen's Picks

*Alex North’s The Whisper Man

*Jennifer McMahon’s The Invited

Ashley's Picks

*Sarah Henning’s The Sea Witch

*​Shea Ernshaw’s Winterwood

Sara's Picks

*Riley Sager’s The Last Time I Lied

*Alex Michaelides’s The Silent Patient

give me one - game edition

*Jen's pick - Exit: The Game (The Abandoned Cabin edition)

*Sara's picks - - Apples to Apples AND Trivial Pursuit: Pop Culture Edition

*Ashley's pick - Code Names

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Join us for our 2019 edition of Spooky Stories! ​​We're here again this season to share with you our latest seasonal and spooky favorites. We'll talk the latest books (including Shea Ernshaw's Winterwood, coming out on November 5th... SO GOOD!), and we will share our thoughts about some of the Book of the Month picks from this season (including Alex North's The Whisper Man, Alex Michaelides’s The Silent Patient, and Riley Sager's The Last Time I Lied). 

our spooky picks

Jen's Picks

*Alex North’s The Whisper Man

*Jennifer McMahon’s The Invited

Ashley's Picks

*Sarah Henning’s The Sea Witch

*​Shea Ernshaw’s Winterwood

Sara's Picks

*Riley Sager’s The Last Time I Lied

*Alex Michaelides’s The Silent Patient

give me one - game edition

*Jen's pick - Exit: The Game (The Abandoned Cabin edition)

*Sara's picks - - Apples to Apples AND Trivial Pursuit: Pop Culture Edition

*Ashley's pick - Code Names

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Well, we have failed at reading all of our recommendations for each other, but we had a good time with some confessions, some reflection, and some reviews of how well we know each other. In general, I'd say that we did a pretty good job recommending books for each other . . . and a pretty bad job prioritizing our TBRs.

Missed out on the episode where we recommended books to each other? Listen here. 

Ashley’s Update

*Renee Watson’s Piecing Me Together 

*Ingrid Rojas Contreras’s Fruit of the Drunken Tree

*Hasn't read yet - 

*Laurie Halse Anderson’s Chains (The Seeds of America Trilogy)

*Sujata Massey’s The Widows of Malabar Hill​

Jen's Update ​

*A. Sivandan’s When Memory Dies 

*Knox McCoy’s The Wondering Years

*Louise Penny's Still Life

*Still finishing -

*Don Delillo’s White Noise ​​

Sara's Update 

*Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom

*Stephanie Perkins’s Anna and the French Kiss

*Laura Lippman’s Sunburn

*Hasn't read yet - 

*John Boyne’s The Heart’s Invisible Furies​

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Well, we have failed at reading all of our recommendations for each other, but we had a good time with some confessions, some reflection, and some reviews of how well we know each other. In general, I'd say that we did a pretty good job recommending books for each other . . . and a pretty bad job prioritizing our TBRs.

Missed out on the episode where we recommended books to each other? Listen here. 

Ashley’s Update

*Renee Watson’s Piecing Me Together 

*Ingrid Rojas Contreras’s Fruit of the Drunken Tree

*Hasn't read yet - 

*Laurie Halse Anderson’s Chains (The Seeds of America Trilogy)

*Sujata Massey’s The Widows of Malabar Hill​

Jen's Update ​

*A. Sivandan’s When Memory Dies 

*Knox McCoy’s The Wondering Years

*Louise Penny's Still Life

*Still finishing -

*Don Delillo’s White Noise ​​

Sara's Update 

*Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom

*Stephanie Perkins’s Anna and the French Kiss

*Laura Lippman’s Sunburn

*Hasn't read yet - 

*John Boyne’s The Heart’s Invisible Furies​

Check out what's coming up next.

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Well, we have failed at reading all of our recommendations for each other, but we had a good time with some confessions, some reflection, and some reviews of how well we know each other. In general, I'd say that we did a pretty good job recommending books for each other . . . and a pretty bad job prioritizing our TBRs.

Missed out on the episode where we recommended books to each other? Listen here. 

Ashley’s Update

*Renee Watson’s Piecing Me Together 

*Ingrid Rojas Contreras’s Fruit of the Drunken Tree

*Hasn't read yet - 

*Laurie Halse Anderson’s Chains (The Seeds of America Trilogy)

*Sujata Massey’s The Widows of Malabar Hill​

Jen's Update ​

*A. Sivandan’s When Memory Dies 

*Knox McCoy’s The Wondering Years

*Louise Penny's Still Life

*Still finishing -

*Don Delillo’s White Noise ​​

Sara's Update 

*Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom

*Stephanie Perkins’s Anna and the French Kiss

*Laura Lippman’s Sunburn

*Hasn't read yet - 

*John Boyne’s The Heart’s Invisible Furies​

Check out what's coming up next.

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​​For this short episode of Unabridged, we are talking all about Rainbow Rowell and our love for her books. While we each have unique favorites of her work, we can agree that we are all fans, and there are some things that run through her writing that we enjoy.

the hosts' favorites

Ashley’s Pick

*Rainbow Rowell's Carry On

Jen’s Pick

*Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl

Sara’s Pick

*Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor and Park

other mentions​

*Rainbow Rowell's Wayward Son

*Rainbow Rowell's Pumpkinheads

*Rainbow Rowell's Attachments

*Rainbow Rowell's Landline

*Francine Pascal's Sweet Valley High series

give me one: one tv show you should watch

*Sara's pick: Justified

*Ashley's pick: The Good Place

*Jen's pick: Fleabag

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