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
A Giant Pile: Anticipated Books for 2019 (Short)
I Will Qualify Them All: Unabridged Awards (Highlight)
A Part of Our History: Justina Ireland's DREAD NATION (Book Club)
Not Guilty Enough: Confessing Our Literary Sins (Short)
Holiday Wrap-Up! (Short)
Our Confessions Being Made: Beat the Holiday Reading Slump (Highlight)
It Is Just So Precious: Our Kids' Current Reads (Short)
These Random People at Dinner: Gretchen Anthony's EVERGREEN TIDINGS FROM THE BAUMGARTNERS (Book Club)
I've Developed a Serious Mug Habit: Bookish Gift Ideas for the Holidays (Short)
Stay the Course and Go for It: Graphic Novels and Comic Collections (Highlight)
I'm Always Here for That: YA To-Be-Read Lists (Short)
Don't Get in That Car: Tara Westover's EDUCATED (Book Club)
The Longest Short Episode Ever: Book-to-Film Adaptation of Angie Thomas's THE HATE U GIVE (Short)
A Chill Up the Back of Your Neck: Spooky Reads (Short)
Part of My Personality: Anne Bogel Highlights - READING PEOPLE and I'D RATHER BE READING (Highlight)
Our Children Making Their Rounds: Bring Your Own Book Game #2 (Short)
Every Time I've Read It I've Found Something New to Love: Angie Thomas's THE HATE U GIVE (Book Club)
"Frantically Reading": Book-to-Film Adaptation of Kevin Kwan's CRAZY RICH ASIANS (Short)
Phenomenal in Scope: Global Read Aloud with LOVE, HATE & OTHER FILTERS, AMAL UNBOUND, and REFUGEE (Highlight)
I Love the Love Story: Lit Chat Game #4 (Short)
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