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Unabridged Podcast
Welcome to Unabridged! Ashley Dickson-Ellison and Jen Moyers (shown left to right in the photo) talk books, share recommendations, and celebrate all things bookish. On our blog (see our posts below!) we share bookish faves, pub day shout-outs, show notes, and book reviews.
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Aug 28, 20192 min read
88: Autumn TBR Lists - Shopping in My Kindle Closet
We'll let you guess just which one of us went shopping in her Kindle closet . . . and then cheated to share an extra book (or two . . ....
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Aug 14, 20191 min read
86: Our Favorite Audiobooks - (Don't) Come to Me, Animal Friends
In this episode, we are revisiting our love for audiobooks! Some favorites include Fredrick Backman’s Beartown, Michelle Obama’s...
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Aug 7, 20191 min read
85: Global Read Aloud 2019 - I just have to read this quotation
For the second year, we are excited to explore three of the Global Read Aloud books. (You can find out more information about the Global...
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Jun 26, 20191 min read
79: 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 . . ....
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Jun 19, 20191 min read
78: Laurie Halse Anderson Highlight - It Is Okay to Fight
For our last Unabridged Highlight episode of season 2, we're discussing the influence of one of our favorite YA authors, Laurie Halse...
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Jun 12, 20191 min read
77: Our Summer TBR Lists - We All Know How I Like the Romance
We at Unabridged are SO. Excited. About summer! As unrepentant bookworms, we have been plotting and planning which books we can fit in...
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May 8, 20191 min read
72: Worth All the Tears - That Book Enriched My Life
In this #unabridgedshort episode, we recommend books that made us cry--we're talking ugly tears!--but are worth the sorrow that...
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May 1, 20191 min read
71: Graeme Simsion's THE ROSIE PROJECT - Immerse Yourself in the Way He Sees the World
Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Project is our Unabridged Book Club pick this month. In The Rosie Project, professor Don Tillman has...
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Mar 27, 20191 min read
66: YA TBR Update - I'm Over Here Having a Little Personal Celebration
In this podcast episode, we return to our TBR lists for YA Literature that we discussed in Episode 47. The YA Books We Read from Our TBR...
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Mar 6, 20191 min read
63: Julie Murphy's DUMPLIN' - Finding Your Own Way
In this Unabridged Book Club episode, we discuss Julie Murphy's YA lit novel, Dumplin'. When “self-proclaimed fat girl” Willowdean...
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Feb 20, 20191 min read
61: Ibi Zoboi's PRIDE and AMERICAN STREET - Cherishing Culture
In this Unabridged Podcast episode, we discuss Ibi Zoboi's YA Lit books, Pride: A Pride and Prejudice Remix and American Street. Pride...
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Feb 13, 20191 min read
60: Love Is in the Air - Romantic Books to Read in February
In this Unabridged Shorts podcast episode, we discuss our favorite love stories within novels. Some of our favorite authors who write...
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Feb 6, 20191 min read
59: The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer - Our Fascinating Discussion
In this Unabridged podcast episode, we're discussing our February Book Club book, The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer, which centers on...
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Jan 16, 20192 min read
56: Unabridged Awards - I Will Qualify Them All
-Alternate Titles- Address the nervousness OR Anticipating it is exciting OR Not a lot of table space for a drum roll OR I guess that was...
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Dec 12, 20181 min read
51: Our Kids' Current Reads - It Is Just So Precious
-Alternate Titles- Over and over and over and over OR We’re always making fun of him OR He has a ghost writer Works Mentioned in Episode...
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Nov 21, 20181 min read
48: Graphic Novels and Comic Collections - Stay the Course and Go for It
It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.” ― Marjane Satrapi, The Complete Persepolis Works...
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Nov 14, 20181 min read
47: I'm Always Here for That - YA To-Be-Read Lists
-Alternate Titles- I have a hard time remembering why they are there. OR He just writes really smart books for young adults. OR I've...
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Nov 7, 20181 min read
46: Tara Westover's EDUCATED - Don't Get in That Car
My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be...
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Oct 31, 20181 min read
45 - The Longest Short Episode Ever: Book-to-Film Adaptation of Angie Thomas's THE HATE U GIVE
"For me, my art is my activism and storytelling is my activism, so that’s what I’m going to continue to do, and also encourage people...
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Sep 26, 20181 min read
40 - "Frantically Reading": Book-to-Film Adaptation of Kevin Kwan's CRAZY RICH ASIANS
Twenty Ways You Can Tell You Have Asian Parents." Number one on the list: Your parents never, ever call you “just to say hello.” ― Kevin...
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