Best Italo Calvino Podcasts (2024)

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Jane Eyre - Part 1 (Ch 1-9) 1:02:58

5h ago1:02:58

1:02:58

Books mentioned in this episode: Hidden Potential by Adam Grant Grit by Angela Duckworth

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Much Ado About Nothing - Part 3 59:55

7d ago59:55

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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 …

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Much Ado About Nothing - Part 2 54:39

14d ago54:39

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Books mentioned in this episode: The Lost Queen by Signe Pike The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

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Much Ado About Nothing - Part 1 52:49

22d ago52:49

52:49

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

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Anne of Green Gables - Part 4 (Ch 31-38) 1:14:17

1M ago1:14:17

1:14:17

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…

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Anne of Green Gables - Part 3 (Ch 21-30) 1:13:47

1M ago1:13:47

1:13:47

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

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Anne of Green Gables - Part 2 (Ch 11-20) 1:13:53

2M ago1:13:53

1:13:53

Books mentioned in this episode: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

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Anne of Green Gables - Part 1 (Ch 1-10) 1:25:14

2M ago1:25:14

1:25:14

Books mentioned in this episode: The Last Love Note by Emma Grey

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To Kill a Mockingbird - Part 4 (Ch 22-31) 1:23:33

2M ago1:23:33

1:23:33

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 Co…

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To Kill a Mockingbird Part 3 (Ch 15-21) 1:02:32

2M ago1:02:32

1:02:32

We had no books to share this week. Stay tuned next week to hear what we are reading!

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To Kill a Mockingbird - Part 2 (Ch 9-14) 1:06:45

3M ago1:06:45

1:06:45

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

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To Kill a Mockingbird - Part 1 (Ch 1-8) 1:06:43

3M ago1:06:43

1:06:43

Books mentioned in this episode: The Orphan Keeper by Camron Wright Pocahontas by Joseph Bruchac

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The Moffats - Part 3 (Ch 9-12) 58:44

3M ago58:44

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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'…

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The Moffats - Part 2 (Ch 5-8) 1:03:33

3M ago1:03:33

1:03:33

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

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The Moffats - Part 1 (Ch 1-4) 1:13:38

4M ago1:13:38

1:13:38

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

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Announcing Our 2024 Book List 37:55

4M ago37:55

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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 Ja…

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Our top 10 Books of 2023 59:48

4M ago59:48

59:48

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 Ru…

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Mere Christianity - Book 4 1:13:54

4M ago1:13:54

1:13:54

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

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Mere Christianity - Book 3 1:21:57

4M ago1:21:57

1:21:57

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

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Mere Christianity - Book 2 55:10

5M ago55:10

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Books mentioned in this episode: Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

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Mere Christianity Book 1 1:01:09

5M ago1:01:09

1:01:09

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

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All of a Kind Family - Part 2 (Ch 8-15) 1:10:18

5M ago1:10:18

1:10:18

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…

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Castiglione's Book of the Courtier / Urbino, Le Marche 45:07

6M ago45:07

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Baldassare Castiglione's Book of the Courtier raises questions such as "What are the qualities the perfect gentleman?", "What are the qualities of language that are suitable for writing?", and "What is the proper balance between artifice and sincerity?". Wake up, Yana!By Anne Schuchman and James Berrettini

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All of a Kind Family - Part 1 (Ch 1-7) 1:13:01

6M ago1:13:01

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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

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One Year Anniversary of the Podcast 46:38

6M ago46:38

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"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 …

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Frankenstein - Part 4 (Ch 19-24) 1:11:04

6M ago1:11:04

1:11:04

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 P…

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Frankenstein - Part 3 (Ch 11-18) 1:00:07

6M ago1:00:07

1:00:07

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

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Frankenstein - Part 2 (Ch 5-10) 51:21

7M ago51:21

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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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Frankenstein - Part 1 (Preface - Ch 4) 1:00:27

7M ago1:00:27

1:00:27

Books mentioned in this episode: Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar The Red Tent by Anita Diamant Next Week: Frankenstein Ch 5-10

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The Wheel on the School - Part 2 (Ch 9-15) 1:09:31

7M ago1:09:31

1:09:31

Books Mentioned in the Episode: The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert Dejong The Singing Hill by Meindert Dejong Journey from Peppermint Street by Meindert Dejong Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge Edenbrooke by Julianne Donaldson The Jewels of Hals…

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The Wheel on the School - Part 1 (Ch1-8) 1:13:09

7M ago1:13:09

1:13:09

Books mentioned in this episdoe: The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan Henry The Body Keeps the Score by Sean Pratt

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Pride and Prejudice - Part 6 (Ch 53-61) 1:39:07

8M ago1:39:07

1:39:07

Books mentioned in this episode: Longbourn by Jo Baker Lord of the Flies by William Golding Sylvester by Georgette Heyer North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Death Comes to Pemberley by Rosalyn Landor Austenland by Shannon Hale Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin The Murder of Mr. Whickham by Claudia Gray Miss Elizabeth …

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Pride and Prejudice - Part 5 (Ch 43-52) 1:37:26

8M ago1:37:26

1:37:26

Books mentioned in this episode: What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon Room by Emma Donoghue The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland Night by Elie Wiesel

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Pride and Prejudice - Part 4 (Ch 34-42) 1:11:35

8M ago1:11:35

1:11:35

Books Mentioned in this episode: Killing England by Bill O'Reilley Confidence Man by Maggie Haberman Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli The Second Ending by Michelle Hoffman

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Pride and Prejudice - Part 3 (Ch 24-33) 1:16:26

8M ago1:16:26

1:16:26

Books Mentioned in this Episode: Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise by Colleen Oakley Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

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Pride and Prejudice - Part 2 (Ch 13-23) 1:33:47

8M ago1:33:47

1:33:47

Books mentioned in this episode: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi The Things We Leave Unfinished by Rebecca Yarros The Bodyguard by Katherine Center The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins Rembarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt The One in a Million Boy by Monica Wood…

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Pride and Prejudice - Part 1 ( Ch 1-12) 1:29:53

9M ago1:29:53

1:29:53

Book Mentioned in this Episode: Longbourn by Jo Baker An American Beauty by Shana Abe Beecoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan Henry Once Upon a Wardrobe by Patti Callahan Henry The Rose Code by Kate Quinn The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn Own Your Past Change Your Future by Dr. John Deloney Love Comes Softly by Janette Oke…

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Ep. 62: Purgatorio, Canto I 44:30

9M ago44:30

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By Anne Schuchman and James Berrettini

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Jane Austen and Introduction to Pride and Prejudice 1:08:08

9M ago1:08:08

1:08:08

Books mentioned in this episode:Anne of Green Gables by L. M. MontgomeryA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Chronicles of Narnia Series by C.S. LewisLittle House Series by Laura Ingalls WilderTo Kill a Mcking Bird by Harper LeeThe Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinleyWhere the Red Fern Grows by Wilson RawlsSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenA…

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Island of the Blue Dolphins - Part 3 (Ch 19-29) 58:22

9M ago58:22

58:22

Books mentioned in this episode: My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George Hatchet by Gary Paulsen A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth Ge…

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Island of the Blue Dolphins - Part 2 (Ch 10-18) 58:16

9M ago58:16

58:16

Book mentioned in this episode: My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare Two Against the North by Farley Mowat Hatchet by Gary Paulsen Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver The Life We Bury by Allen Eskins What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon Where the Lost Wander by Amy HarmonUp next: Pride and P…

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Island of the Blue Dolphins - Part 1 (Ch 1-9) 1:01:34

10M ago1:01:34

1:01:34

Books mentioned in this episode: The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See A House Without Windows by Nadia Hashimi Maame by Jessica George Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano The Dutch House by Ann Patchet Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand…

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Our Summer 2023 Special Episode 54:56

10M ago54:56

54:56

Books mentioned in this episode: Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls The Boxcar Children Series by Gertrude Chandler Warner The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss Half Magic by Edward Eager Five Children and It by E Nesbit Sweep: The Story of A Girl…

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Ep. 61: Dante's Vita Nuova / Florence 38:00

10M ago38:00

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Can't get enough of your love, babe. Or of Dante. This episode we read Dante's New Life , a prelude to The Divine Comedy. Written in prosimetrum, a form that combines poetry and prose, we get to see a little more of Beatrice, and a lot more of young Dante in Florence. Catherine Project Frisardi's translation of Vita Nuova (online) Dante Gabriel Ros…

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Charlotte's Web - Part 2 (Ch 12-22) 1:07:57

11M ago1:07:57

1:07:57

Books mentioned in this episode: The Little House Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert O'Brien The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary The Borrowers by Mary Norton Divine Quietness by Emily Robison Adams The Perfect Marriage by Geneva Rose

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Charlotte's Web - Part 1 (Ch 1-11) 55:32

11M ago55:32

55:32

Books mentioned in this episode:A House Without Windows by Nadia HashimiHonor by Thrity UmrigarThe Girl in His Shadow by Audrey BlakeDomina by Barbara WoodThe Surgeon's Daughter by Audrey BlakeUp Next (in July):Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

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The Great Gatsby - Part 3 (Ch 7-9) 1:02:52

12M ago1:02:52

1:02:52

Book Mentioned in this Episode: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespear Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 1984 by George Orwell The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Rebecca by Daphne Du Marier The Awakening by Kate Chopin The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys I Must Betray You …

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The Great Gatsby - Part 2 (Ch 4-6) 47:56

12M ago47:56

47:56

Books mentioned in this episode: Code Name Edelweiss by Stephanie Landsem A Quiet Life by Ethan Joella Refugee by Alan Gratz Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan Our next book: Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

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The Great Gatsby - Part 1 (Ch 1-3) 1:07:28

1y ago1:07:28

1:07:28

Books mentioned in this episode: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee Our next book: Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

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Our Interview on the Seeking Light Podcast 58:40

1y ago58:40

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In the very beginning of our podcasting journey, we were asked to go on our friend Beth's podcast. This interview came out on the same day that our first four episodes were released. We thought it would be fun to revisit our very beginning! Enjoy!

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