Unabridged: A Book Podcast

By Ashley Dickson-Ellison and Jen Moyers

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... more

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The podcast currently has 447 episodes available.

Unabridged: A Book Podcast episodes:

April 18, 2018 Episode 16 - If I Don’t Like It, I Ditch It: Unpopular Opinion Alert (Books Everyone Else Loved, But We Didn’t)
Unpopular Opinion Alert (Short Story Episode)

books mentioned

*Jenni - Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

*Sara - Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge

*Ashley - E. Lockhart's We Were Liars

*Jen - Elizabeth Wein's Code Name Verity

other books mentioned

*Elizabeth Strout's My Name Is Lucy Barton

*J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series

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13min
April 11, 2018 I Ran Out of Book Darts: Tomi Adeyemi's CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE (YA Book Club)
timeline
*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00-1:39
*Main Discussion: 1:40-42:40
*Book Pairings: 43:24-50:14
*Classroom Connections: 50:15-53:50
book pairings
*Jen - Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
*Ashley - Kristin Cashore's Graceling
*Sara - William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer's The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope / Young Reader's Edition / Picture Book
other works mentioned
*William Kamkwamba's TED Talk
*The Atlantic review by Vann R. Newkirk II, "Where Fantasy Meets Black Lives Matter"
*Nic Stone's Dear Martin
*Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give
*Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely's All-American Boys
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55min
April 04, 2018 Any Aspiring Authors Out There? There's Your Window!: Favorite Current Reads (Short)
books mentioned
*Jenni - Melissa Hill's Keep You Safe
*Sara - Beth Vrabel's Caleb and Kit
*Ashley - Patricia McCormick's Never Fall Down
*Jen - Robin Sloan's Sourdough
other books mentioned
*Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
*Robin Sloan's Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
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14min
March 28, 2018 Can We Just Please Read the Rest of That?: Dane Hucklebridge's CASTLE OF WATER (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: 0:00-0:44
*Main Discussion: 0:45-29:32
*Book Pairings: 29:38-39:21
*Classroom Connections: 39:22-45:03

book pairings
*Jen - F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
*Sara - Emily St. John Mendel's Station Eleven
*Ashley - Cormac McCarthy's The Road
*Jenni - Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies

books mentioned in classroom connections
*Sara - Lois Lowry's The Giver series
*Jenni - Louis Sachar's Holes

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46min
March 21, 2018 Well, You Can't Skim: Favorite Audiobooks (Short)
books mentioned
*Jen - As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes and Joe Layden, narrated by Cary Elwes
*Jenni - Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, narrated by Linda Stephens
*Ashley - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling, narrated by Jim Dale
*Sara - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman, narrated by George Newburn
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9min
March 14, 2018 I Can Suspend Disbelief Like Crazy: Julie Buxbaum's TELL ME THREE THINGS (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: 0:00-0:53
*Main Discussion: 0:54-21:24
*Spoilers: 4:49
*Book Pairings: 21:29-28:34
*Classroom Connections: 28:35-31:11
book pairings
*Jen - Gayle Forman's If I Stay
*Sara - Sharon Huss Roat's How to Disappear
*Ashley - Stephanie Perkins's Anna and the French Kiss
*Jenni - Susan Nielson's We Are All Made of Molecules
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32min
March 07, 2018 I'm Not Stalking Her or Anything: Lit Chat #1 (Short)
books mentioned
*Sara - Atticus Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird
*Jen - Anne Shirley from Anne of Green Gables
*Ashley - Jacqueline Woodson
*Jenni - Kwame Alexander
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8min
February 28, 2018 I Want Somebody to Like: Fiona Barton's THE WIDOW (Book Club)
timeline
*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00-0:50
*Main Discussion: 0:51-27:31 --> Spoilers: 6:40 / 9:50--for real!
*Book Pairings: 27:38-37:40
*Classroom Connections: 37:41-46:48
book pairings
*Ashley - Adam Ross's Mr. Peanut
*Jen - Stephen King's Full Dark, No Stars (the novella "A Good Marriage")
*Sara - Clare Mackintosh's I See You
*Jenni - S. J. Watson's Before I Go to Sleep
books mentioned in classroom connections
*Ashley - Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones
*Jen - Barry Lyga's I Hunt Killers
*Sara - Lisa McMann's Wake, Fade, and Gone
*Jenni - Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians (Now published as And Then There Were None)

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48min
February 21, 2018 Three Mountains Away: HOW WE BECAME READERS (Short)
books and authors mentioned
*Mary Downing Hahn's Daphne's Book
*Katherine Paterson's Jacob Have I Loved
*Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles
*Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
*Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind

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11min
February 15, 2018 It's Very Meta: John Green's TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN (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: 0:00-0:58
*Main Discussion: 0:59-37:50
*Book Pairings: 37:57-48:18
*Classroom Connections: 48:19-54:51

book pairings
*Jen - Jennifer Niven's All the Bright Places
*Sara - Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Project
*Ashley - Corey Ann Hadyu’s OCD Love Story and Neil Hilborn’s slam poem "OCD"
*Jenni - John Neufeld’s Lisa Bright and Dark

other works mentioned
Laurie Halse Anderson's
*The Impossible Knife of Memory
*Speak
*Wintergirls

books mentioned in classroom connections
*Ashley - author study of John Green works
*Jen - T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half

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55min

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