Out of the Best Books
Arts
Amity Hulse and Laura Leon
“A Classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”--Italo Calvino. We are two moms that love the classics and we believe they are relevant and still have so much to still say to us today–perhaps even more than ever! We want to invite you to read along with us (or maybe just watch the movie) and hope that you will find our discussions fun and accessible and that you will find that there is so much to learn from and love about these transcendent books!
Book Talk with Mindy Brouse
Books mentioned in this episode:
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrews
The Firm by John Grisham
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkein
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
What's Next: A Backstage Pass to the West Wing by Melissa Fitzgerald
Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
Sandwich by Catherine Newman
All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Harry Potter by JK Rowling
Ordinary Bear by CB Bernard
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erique Maria Remarque
The Guns of August by Barbara W Tuchman
01:02:4801/11/2024
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier - Part 4 (Ch 22-27)
Books mentioned in this episode:
Middletide by Sarah Crouch
My Couisin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Mrs. deWinter by Susan Hill
Rebecca's Tale by Sally Beauman
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Birds: And Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The 100 Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
Up Next: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
58:1225/10/2024
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier - Part 3 (Ch 16-21)
Books mentioned in this episode:
Middletide by Sarah Crouch
01:23:5718/10/2024
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier - Part 2 (Ch 10-15)
Books mentioned in this episode:
Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
53:1811/10/2024
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier - Part 1 (Ch 1-9)
Books mentioned in this episode:
Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin
Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart
01:37:2604/10/2024
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway - Part 2
Books mentioned in this episode:
Life of Pi byYann Martel
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathanial Philbrick
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart
01:00:4027/09/2024
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway - Part 1
Books mentioned in this episode:
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Proximity Principle by Ken Coleman
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Garlic & Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl
James by Percival Everett
01:00:4420/09/2024
Book Talk with Carlina
Join Laura and Carlina as we talk all things books!
Note: This conversation was recorded in July of 2023. If some of our talk about new book releases, this is why!
Books mentioned in this episode:
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
The Lord the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien
Running for My Life by Lopez Lomong
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shellby Van Pelt
The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer
The Quiet Tenant by Clemence Michallon
Room by Emma Donoghue
The Island of Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
The Women by Kristin Hannah
Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
31:2213/09/2024
Persuasion by Jane Austen - Part 6 (Ch 22-24)
Books mentioned in this episode:
1001 Arabian Nights by Sir Richard Burton
The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh
Jane in Love by Rachel Givney
Where the Rhythm Takes You by Sarah Dass
The Yellow Wood by Minnie Darke
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
The Rule Book by Sarah Adams
Pride and Premeditation by Tirzah Price
Ladies Rewrite the Rules by Suzanne Allain
One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid
It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
Where We Belong by Emily Giffin
The Summer That Made Us by Robyn Carr
The Virgin River Series by Robyn Carr
My Mother's Secret by J.L. Witterick
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Septys
01:21:2506/09/2024
Persuasion by Jane Austen - Part 5 (Ch 20-21)
Books mentioned in this episode:
Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
The Hold We're In by Gabrielle Zevin
Weyward by Emilia Hart
01:05:4230/08/2024
Persuasion by Jane Austen - Part 4 (Ch 15-19)
Books mentioned in this episode:
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
Mr. Malcomn's List by Suzanne Allain
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
01:42:2823/08/2024
Persuasion by Jane Austen - Part 3 (Ch 10-14)
Books mentioned in this episode:
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
Seeking Persephone by Sarah Eden
The Reading List by Sarah Nisha Adams
The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart
01:24:5316/08/2024
Persuasion by Jane Austen - Part 2 (Ch 6-9)
Books mentioned in this episode:
Leading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nasifi
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Long Bright River by Liz Moore
The Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mystery Novels by Lynn Messina
The Quit List by Katie Bailey
When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
The Eddie Flynn Series by Steve Cavanagh
01:15:2909/08/2024
Persuasion by Jane Austen - Part 1 (Ch 1-5)
Books Mentioned in this Episode:
Pixels and Paint by Kristi Ann Hunter
The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen
The Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mystery Novels by Lynn Messina
Queen Charlotte by Julia Quinn
The Duke and I b \y Julia Quinn
01:22:1602/08/2024
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Part 4 (Ch 32-43)
Books mentioned in this episode:
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
James by Percival Everett
There Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
01:03:1726/07/2024
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Part 3 (Ch 22-31)
Books mentioned in this episode:
The Magic Treehouse Series by Mary Pope Osborne
Killing the Witches by Bill O'Reilly
Up Next (in 2 Weeks):
Persuasion by Jane Austen
01:02:5419/07/2024
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Part 2 (Ch 13-21)
Books mentioned in this episode:
I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time by Laura Vanderkam
The Little Village of Book Lovers by Nina George
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmin
01:09:0412/07/2024
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Part 1 (Ch 1-12)
Books mentioned in this episode:
The Lost Letter by Mimi Matthews
Killing the Witches by Bill O'Reilly
01:06:4705/07/2024
Jane Eyre - Part 6 (Ch 34-38)
Books mentioned in this episode:
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
John Eyre by Mimi Matthews
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Weyward by Emilia Hart
Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
The Heartwood Hotel Series by Kallie George
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
55:0731/05/2024
Jane Eyre - Part 5 (Ch 28-33)
Books mentioned in this episode:
Weyward by Emilia Hart
Real Americans by Rachel Khong
Forever and Ever, Amen by Randy Travis
59:2724/05/2024
Jane Eyre - Part 4 (Ch 22-27)
Books mentioned in this episode:
Transforming the Difficult Child by Jennfer Easley
Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline by Becky A. Bailey
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
The Millie Molly Mandy Storybook by Joyce Lankester Brisley
01:08:1817/05/2024
Jane Eyre - Part 3 (Ch 17-21)
Books mentioned in this episode:
The Women by Kristin Hannah
51:0010/05/2024
Jane Eyre - Part 2 (Ch 10-16)
Books mentioned in this episode:
The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Words on Fire by Jennifer A. Nielsen
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
01:18:3204/05/2024
Jane Eyre - Part 1 (Ch 1-9)
Books mentioned in this episode:
Hidden Potential by Adam Grant
Grit by Angela Duckworth
01:02:5826/04/2024
Much Ado About Nothing - Part 3
Books mentioned in this episode:
How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare by Ken Ludwig
The Shakespeare Stories by Andrew Matthews
Shakespeare Can Be Fun! Series by Lois Burdett
The Usborne Complete Shakespeare: Sotries From All The Plays by Anna Milbourne
A Stage Full of Shakespeare Stories by Angela McAllister
Shakespeare's Stories by Khoa Lee
The Frozen Riverby Airel Lawhon
The Lost Queen by Signe Pike
59:5519/04/2024
Much Ado About Nothing - Part 2
Books mentioned in this episode:
The Lost Queen by Signe Pike
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
54:3912/04/2024
Much Ado About Nothing - Part 1
Books mentioned in this episode:
William Shakespeare: Playwright and Poet by Pamela Hill Nettleton
The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
The Affair by Gill Paul
52:4905/04/2024
Anne of Green Gables - Part 4 (Ch 31-38)
Books mentioned in this episode:
Marilla of Green Gables by Sarah McCoy
The Grace of Wild Things of Heather Fawcett
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
The Landing of the Pilgrims by James Daugherty
The Millie Molly Mandy Storybook by Joyce Lankester
Brisley
Jane in Love by Rachel Givney
01:14:1722/03/2024
Anne of Green Gables - Part 3 (Ch 21-30)
Books mentioned in this episode:
The Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam by Quang Nhuong Huynh
The Lost Ticket by Freya Sampson
01:13:4715/03/2024
Anne of Green Gables - Part 2 (Ch 11-20)
Books mentioned in this episode:
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
01:13:5308/03/2024
Anne of Green Gables - Part 1 (Ch 1-10)
Books mentioned in this episode:
The Last Love Note by Emma Grey
01:25:1401/03/2024
To Kill a Mockingbird - Part 4 (Ch 22-31)
Books mentioned in this episode:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Mudbound by Hilary Jordan
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Book of Five Rings of Miyamoto Musashi
The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James
01:23:3323/02/2024
To Kill a Mockingbird Part 3 (Ch 15-21)
We had no books to share this week. Stay tuned next week to hear what we are reading!
01:02:3216/02/2024
To Kill a Mockingbird - Part 2 (Ch 9-14)
Books mentioned in this episode:
The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young
The Rent Collector by Camron Wright
The Orphan Keeper by Camron Wright
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01:06:4509/02/2024
To Kill a Mockingbird - Part 1 (Ch 1-8)
Books mentioned in this episode:
The Orphan Keeper by Camron Wright
Pocahontas by Joseph Bruchac
01:06:4302/02/2024
The Moffats - Part 3 (Ch 9-12)
Books Mentioned in this Episode:
All of a Kind Family of Sidney Taylor
The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place by Maryrose Wood
The Vanderbeeker's of 141st St of Karina Yan Glaser
Pippi Longstocking by Inger Nilsson
Amelia Bedelia Books by Peggy Parish
Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
Pinky Pye by Eleanor Estes
My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Mercy Watson by Kate DiCamillo
Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Grimoire Girl by Hilarie Burton Morgan
58:4426/01/2024
The Moffats - Part 2 (Ch 5-8)
Books mentioned in this episode:
The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
Killing the Witches by Bill O'Reilly
Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon
01:03:3319/01/2024
The Moffats - Part 1 (Ch 1-4)
Books mentioned in this episode:
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
Pinky Pye by Eleanor Estes
The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
Later on We'll Conspire by Kortney Keisel
Faking Christmas by Cindy Steel
01:13:3812/01/2024
Announcing Our 2024 Book List
Books mentioned in this episode:
The Moffats (January) by Elearnor Estes
All of a Kind Family by Sidney Taylor
To Kill a Mocking Bird (Feb) by Harper Lee
Ann of Green Gables (March) by L.M. Montgomery
Much Ado About Nothing (April) by William Shakespear
Jane Eyre (May) by Charlotte Bronte
Huckleberry Finn (July) by Mark Twain
Persuasion (Aug) by Jane Austen
The Old Man and the Sea (September) by Ernest Hemmingway
Rebecca (Oct) by aphne DuMaurier
The Hobbit (Nov) by J.R.R. Tolkien
A Christmas Carol (Dec) by Charles Dickens
The Star That Always Stays by Anna Rose Johnson
Leonardo DaVinci by Diane Stanley
37:5505/01/2024
Our top 10 Books of 2023
Books mentioned in this episode:
The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise by Colleen Oakley
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
Go As a River by Shelley Read
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepytys
The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepytys
Lighthouse Bay by Kimberley Freeman
Deamon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon
The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Quiet Tenant by Clemence Michallon
Room by Emma Donahue
The Postcard by Anne Berest
Unspeakable by Jessica Willis Fisher
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
Running For My Life by Lopez Lomong
The Many Lives of Mama Love by Lara Love Hardin
The Maid by Kimberly Cutter
Killing the Rising Sun by Bill O'Reilly
Blue Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews
Small Things Like These by Clarie Keegan
The Moffats by Eleanor Estes
59:4829/12/2023
Mere Christianity - Book 4
Books mentioned in this episode:
Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
Pedro's Journal by Pam Conrad
\The Many Lives of Mama Love by Lara Love Hardin
01:13:5422/12/2023
Mere Christianity - Book 3
Books mentioned in this episode:
Hello Stranger by Katherine Center
Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
The Red Pencil by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Red, White, and Whole by Rajani LaRocca
01:21:5715/12/2023
Mere Christianity - Book 2
Books mentioned in this episode:
Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn
Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
55:1008/12/2023
Mere Christianity Book 1
Books mentioned in this episode:
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Children of the Longhouse by Joseph Bruchac
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
Hello Stranger by Katherine Center
01:01:0901/12/2023
All of a Kind Family - Part 2 (Ch 8-15)
Books mentioned in this episode:
The Chosen by Chaim Potock
Little House on the Prarie Series by Laura ingalls Wilder
Cheaper By the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
The Moffits by Eleanor Estes
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
Little Britches by Ralph Moody
The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz
The Family Nobody Wanted by Helen Doss
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
01:10:1817/11/2023
All of a Kind Family - Part 1 (Ch 1-7)
Books mentioned in this episode:
The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz
Finders Keepers by Natalie Barelli
Tom Lake by Ann Patchet
The Dutch House by Ann Patchet
01:13:0110/11/2023
One Year Anniversary of the Podcast
"Some" of the books mentioned in this episode:
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
The Secret Garden by Fances Hodgson Burnett
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
A Quiet Little Woman by Louisa May Alcott
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Wheel on the School by Meindert Dejong
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
The Anatomy of Peace by The Arbinger Institute
46:3803/11/2023
Frankenstein - Part 4 (Ch 19-24)
Books mentioned in this episode:
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
It by Stephen King
11-22-63 by Stephen King
Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Marier
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
We Captured the Castle by Dodie Smith
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Lewis Stevenson
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Hour of the Witch by Chris Bojahlian
The Viking by Elizabeth Janeway
City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab
01:11:0427/10/2023
Frankenstein - Part 3 (Ch 11-18)
Book mentioned in this episode:
The Paris Daughter by Kristen Harmel
The Book of Lost Names by Kristen Harmel
The Sand Castle Girls by Chris Bojahlian
Hour of the Witch by Christ Bojahlian
01:00:0720/10/2023
Frankenstein - Part 2 (Ch 5-10)
Books mentioned in this episode:
The Sand Castle Girls by Chris Bojahlian
Hour of the Witch by Chris Bojahlian
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
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