Out of the Best Books
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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!
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Book Talk with Mindy Brouse
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)
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)
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)
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)
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
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
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
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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
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
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
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 https://therefinedschoolhouse.org/blog/f/out-of-the-best-books
01:06:4509/02/2024
To Kill a Mockingbird - Part 1 (Ch 1-8)
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)
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)
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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)
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
51:2113/10/2023