Unabridged: A Book Podcast

Unabridged: A Book Podcast

By Ashley Dickson-Ellison and Jen MoyersEducationArtsBooks
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Unabridged: A Book Podcast episodes

  • Best of Unabridged Shorts (So Far!) - Most Riveting of All
    ​In this summer highlights episode, we're sharing three of our most popular Unabridged Short Story episodes! You can join us on the Rainbow Rowell Train, pick up some steamy recommendations, and learn all about our worst (or maybe best?) literary sins.We'd love to hear your newest recommendations for our TBR, your best steamy picks, and (of course!) your true confessions.
     
    timeline​Click the episode title to access show notes and links to the books mentioned:
    *Episode 57, "Anticipated Reads of 2019" (01:58 - 20:50)
    *Episode 33, "Love is in the Air" (21:00 - 40:40)
    *Episode 54, "Confessing Our Literary Sins" (40:50 - 55:06)
    ​Check out what's coming up next.
     
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    1 hr 1 min
  • Best of Unabridged Shorts (So Far!) - Most Riveting of All

    ​In this summer highlights episode, we're sharing three of our most popular Unabridged Short Story episodes! You can join us on the Rainbow Rowell Train, pick up some steamy recommendations, and learn all about our worst (or maybe best?) literary sins.

    We'd love to hear your newest recommendations for our TBR, your best steamy picks, and (of course!) your true confessions.

     

    timeline

    ​Click the episode title to access show notes and links to the books mentioned:

    *Episode 57, "Anticipated Reads of 2019" (01:58 - 20:50)

    *Episode 33, "Love is in the Air" (21:00 - 40:40)

    *Episode 54, "Confessing Our Literary Sins" (40:50 - 55:06)

    ​Check out what's coming up next.

     

    want to support unabridged?  

    Become a patron on Patreon.​

    Follow us @unabridgedpod on Instagram.

    Like and follow our Facebook Page.

    Follow us @unabridgedpod on Twitter.

    Subscribe to our podcast and rate us on iTunes or on Stitcher.

    Check us out on Podbean.

    1 hr 1 min
  • Best of Unabridged Shorts (So Far!) - Most Riveting of All

    ​In this summer highlights episode, we're sharing three of our most popular Unabridged Short Story episodes! You can join us on the Rainbow Rowell Train, pick up some steamy recommendations, and learn all about our worst (or maybe best?) literary sins.


    We'd love to hear your newest recommendations for our TBR, your best steamy picks, and (of course!) your true confessions.

     

    timeline


    ​Click the episode title to access show notes and links to the books mentioned:

    *Episode 57, "Anticipated Reads of 2019" (01:58 - 20:50)

    *Episode 33, "Love is in the Air" (21:00 - 40:40)

    *Episode 54, "Confessing Our Literary Sins" (40:50 - 55:06)


    ​Check out what's coming up next.

     

    want to support unabridged?  

    Become a patron on Patreon.​

    Follow us @unabridgedpod on Instagram.

    Like and follow our Facebook Page.

    Follow us @unabridgedpod on Twitter.

    Subscribe to our podcast and rate us on iTunes or on Stitcher.

    Check us out on Podbean.

    1 hr 1 min
  • Top Book Club Pick from Season 2 - Tara Westover's EDUCATED
    Spoilers are inevitable throughout our discussion of Tara Westover's Educated, so consider whether or not to listen if you haven't yet read the book!timeline
    *Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00 - 01:10
    *Main Discussion: 01:11 - 51:47
    *​Book Pairings: 51:57 - 58:39
    *Classroom Connections: 58:40 - 63:05
    book pairings 
    *Jen - Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle
    *Ashley - Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible
    *Sara - Ruth Wariner's The Sound of Gravel
    *Ruth Reichl's Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
    other mentions in classroom connections
    *Sara - Dave Pelzer's A Child Called "It"
    Check out what's coming up next.
     
    want to support unabridged?Find us on Patreon.​
    Follow us @unabridgedpod on Instagram.
    Follow us @unabridgedpod on Twitter.
    Subscribe to our podcast and rate us on iTunes or on Stitcher.
    Check us out on Podbean.
    1 hr 4 min
  • Top Book Club Pick from Season 2 - Tara Westover's EDUCATED

    Spoilers are inevitable throughout our discussion of Tara Westover's Educated, so consider whether or not to listen if you haven't yet read the book!

    timeline

    *Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00 - 01:10

    *Main Discussion: 01:11 - 51:47

    *​Book Pairings: 51:57 - 58:39

    *Classroom Connections: 58:40 - 63:05

    book pairings 

    *Jen - Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle

    *Ashley - Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible

    *Sara - Ruth Wariner's The Sound of Gravel

    *Ruth Reichl's Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table

    other mentions in classroom connections

    *Sara - Dave Pelzer's A Child Called "It"

    Check out what's coming up next.

     

    want to support unabridged?

    Find us on Patreon.​

    Follow us @unabridgedpod on Instagram.

    Follow us @unabridgedpod on Twitter.

    Subscribe to our podcast and rate us on iTunes or on Stitcher.

    Check us out on Podbean.

    1 hr 4 min
  • Top Book Club Pick from Season 2 - Tara Westover's EDUCATED

    Spoilers are inevitable throughout our discussion of Tara Westover's Educated, so consider whether or not to listen if you haven't yet read the book!


    timeline

    *Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00 - 01:10

    *Main Discussion: 01:11 - 51:47

    *​Book Pairings: 51:57 - 58:39

    *Classroom Connections: 58:40 - 63:05


    book pairings 

    *Jen - Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle

    *Ashley - Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible

    *Sara - Ruth Wariner's The Sound of Gravel

    *Ruth Reichl's Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table


    other mentions in classroom connections

    *Sara - Dave Pelzer's A Child Called "It"


    Check out what's coming up next.

     

    want to support unabridged?


    Find us on Patreon.​

    Follow us @unabridgedpod on Instagram.

    Follow us @unabridgedpod on Twitter.

    Subscribe to our podcast and rate us on iTunes or on Stitcher.

    Check us out on Podbean.

    1 hr 4 min
  • Our Recommendations to Each Other - I Just Love This Book
    The Unabridged crew took time in our most recent short episode (#unabridgedshorts) to recommend books to each other, which was fun . . . and a little scary! (It's weirdly vulnerable.) Check out what we chose to recommend for each other, and let us know if you have other books you think we'd would appreciate (or, of course, if you think we got something really wrong!).
     
    Jen’s Recs--> ​For Ashley -
    *Ingrid Rojas Contreras’s Fruit of the Drunken Tree
    *Sujata Massey’s The Widows of Malabar Hill
    --> For Sara -
    *Laura Lippman’s Sunburn
    *John Boyne’s The Heart’s Invisible Furies
    Ashley’s Recs--> For Sara -
    *Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom
    *Stephanie Perkins’s Lola and the Boy Next Door and Anna and the French Kiss
    --> For Jen -
    *A. Sivandan’s When Memory Dies 
    *Don Delillo’s White Noise and Underworld
    Sara’s Recs--> For Ashley -
    *Renee Watson’s Piecing Me Together 
    *Laurie Halse Anderson’s Chains (The Seeds of America Trilogy)
    ​--> For Jen-
    *Knox McCoy’s The Wondering Years
    *Louise Penny's Still Life 
     
    want to support unabridged?Become a patron on Patreon.​
    Follow us @unabridgedpod on Instagram.
    Like and follow our Facebook Page.
    Follow us @unabridgedpod on Twitter.
    Subscribe to our podcast and rate us on iTunes or on Stitcher.
    Check us out on Podbean.
    34 min
  • Our Recommendations to Each Other - I Just Love This Book

    The Unabridged crew took time in our most recent short episode (#unabridgedshorts) to recommend books to each other, which was fun . . . and a little scary! (It's weirdly vulnerable.) 

    Check out what we chose to recommend for each other, and let us know if you have other books you think we'd would appreciate (or, of course, if you think we got something really wrong!).

     

    Jen’s Recs

    --> ​For Ashley -

    *Ingrid Rojas Contreras’s Fruit of the Drunken Tree

    *Sujata Massey’s The Widows of Malabar Hill

    --> For Sara -

    *Laura Lippman’s Sunburn

    *John Boyne’s The Heart’s Invisible Furies

    Ashley’s Recs
    --> For Sara -

    *Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom

    *Stephanie Perkins’s Lola and the Boy Next Door and Anna and the French Kiss

    --> For Jen -

    *A. Sivandan’s When Memory Dies 

    *Don Delillo’s White Noise and Underworld

    Sara’s Recs
    --> For Ashley -

    *Renee Watson’s Piecing Me Together 

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

    ​--> For Jen-

    *Knox McCoy’s The Wondering Years

    *Louise Penny's Still Life 

     

    want to support unabridged?

    Become a patron on Patreon.​

    Follow us @unabridgedpod on Instagram.

    Like and follow our Facebook Page.

    Follow us @unabridgedpod on Twitter.

    Subscribe to our podcast and rate us on iTunes or on Stitcher.

    Check us out on Podbean.

    34 min
  • Our Recommendations to Each Other - I Just Love This Book

    The Unabridged crew took time in our most recent short episode (#unabridgedshorts) to recommend books to each other, which was fun . . . and a little scary! (It's weirdly vulnerable.) 


    Check out what we chose to recommend for each other, and let us know if you have other books you think we'd would appreciate (or, of course, if you think we got something really wrong!).

     

    Jen’s Recs


    --> ​For Ashley -

    *Ingrid Rojas Contreras’s Fruit of the Drunken Tree

    *Sujata Massey’s The Widows of Malabar Hill

    --> For Sara -

    *Laura Lippman’s Sunburn

    *John Boyne’s The Heart’s Invisible Furies


    Ashley’s Recs

    --> For Sara -

    *Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom

    *Stephanie Perkins’s Lola and the Boy Next Door and Anna and the French Kiss

    --> For Jen -

    *A. Sivandan’s When Memory Dies 

    *Don Delillo’s White Noise and Underworld


    Sara’s Recs

    --> For Ashley -

    *Renee Watson’s Piecing Me Together 

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

    ​--> For Jen-

    *Knox McCoy’s The Wondering Years

    *Louise Penny's Still Life 

     

    want to support unabridged?


    Become a patron on Patreon.​

    Follow us @unabridgedpod on Instagram.

    Like and follow our Facebook Page.

    Follow us @unabridgedpod on Twitter.

    Subscribe to our podcast and rate us on iTunes or on Stitcher.

    Check us out on Podbean.

    34 min
  • Bonus Episode - Collins Center Tips for Promoting Healthy Relationships
    In this Unabridged bonus episode, Ashley interviews Jess Balac from the Collins Center in Harrisonburg, VA, who works with local preschool and elementary school kids to teach sexuality education and to promote healthy attitudes toward bodies and relationships. 
     
    books mentioned
    *Robie Harris's It's NOT the Stork!: A Book about Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies, Families, and Friends (for ages 4 and up)
    *Robie Harris's It's So Amazing: A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families (for ages 7 and up)
    *Robie Harris's It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health (for ages 10 and up)​
    ​additional resources
    *Siegel, Daniel J, M.D., and Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D., with The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
    *The Collins Center Site
     
    want to support unabridged?Become a patron on Patreon.​
    Follow us @unabridgedpod on Instagram.
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    Follow us @unabridgedpod on Twitter.
    Subscribe to our podcast and rate us on iTunes or on Stitcher.
    Check us out on Podbean.
    26 min

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Unabridged is a bookish podcast hosted by teachers. We release episodes twice a month, including a monthly Book Club episode and other bookish topics full of recommendations for your TBR list. Join us…