BookChat with Kate and Theresa

Welcome Back to Episode Three of our Fairy Tale Retellings. This week we are discussing Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley. In this episode we explore the differences between the original Fairy Tale of Beauty and the Beast and McKinley's Rose Daughter, which also happens to be her second time to retell this tale. In two weeks we will be joined by a special guest to talk about the Cinderella retelling...

Book Chat is a podcast featuring sisters-in-law and best friends Kate and Theresa. Please join us as we discuss books. This season we are reading fairy tale retellings! This week on Book Chat we are discussing the book Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen. This young adult novel is a retelling of The Little Mermaid and combines the original fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen with African folklore....

Book Chat is a podcast featuring sisters-in-law and best friends Kate and Theresa. Please join us as we discuss books. This season we are reading fairy tale retellings! This week on Book Chat we are discussing the book "Fairest" by Gail Carson Levine. This middle grade novel is a retelling of snow white by the author of "Ellen Enchanted" and takes the basic story of snow white and transforms it in...

Book Chat is a podcast featuring sisters-in-law and best friends Kate and Theresa. Please join us as we discuss books. This season we are focusing on plagues and pandemics. Both real and not! This week on Book Chat we are discussing the book A Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brook. This novel is a fictionalized events of a real historical event. Follow along as we explore Anna's tragic story in deali...

Book Chat is a podcast featuring sisters-in-law and best friends Kate and Theresa. Please join us as we discuss books. This season we are focusing on plagues and pandemics. Both real and not! This week on Book Chat we are discussing the book Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson. This middle grade historical fiction focuses on what it may have taken to survive the yellow fever when it swept through...

Book Chat is a podcast featuring sisters-in-law Kate and Theresa. Please join us as we discuss books. This season we are focusing on strong women in books. Both real and not! This week on Book Chat we are discussing the book Earth Abides by George R. Stewart. We take a look at what we would prioritize in a post-apocalyptic world that has been wiped out by a pandemic, and discuss if Earth even need...

Book Chat is a podcast featuring sisters-in-law Kate and Theresa. Please join us as we discuss books. This season we are focusing on strong women in books. Both real and not! This week on Book Chat we are discussing the book Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton. In this book Crichton explores what may happen if a plague were to come to Earth from outer space. How would humans handle it? Would we a...

Book Chat is a podcast featuring sisters-in-law Kate and Theresa. Please join us as we discuss books. This season we are focusing on strong women in books. Both real and not! This week on Book Chat we are discussing the book Get Well Soon by Jennifer Wright. We explore multiple plagues, the impact on their communities, and the lessons that can be learned from the different plagues in this intrigui...

Book Chat is a podcast featuring sisters-in-law Kate and Theresa. Please join us as we discuss books. This season we are focusing on strong women in books. Both real and not! This week on Book Chat we are discussing the book Eleanor Roosevelt's Autobiography. No one is born a strong woman. Throughout Eleanor's book we find out what she went through and how she became a strong woman. This wraps up...

Book Chat is a podcast featuring sisters-in-law Kate and Theresa. Please join us as we discuss books. This season we are focusing on strong women in books. Both real and not! This week on Book Chat we are discussing the book A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan.  In two weeks we will be reviewing The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt. Learn about a First Lady who saw the world during som...

Here is our second surprise mini episode! This week we talked about things we have learned about each other and ourselves as we have spent almost half the year working on this book club podcast. We hope you tune in and let us know what lessons you have learned about yourselves through your reading! Thank you for watching and we hope to see you on May 24th to hear about The Natural History of Drago...

Book Chat is a podcast featuring sisters-in-law Kate and Theresa. Please join us as we discuss books. This season we are focusing on strong women in books. Both real and not! This week on Book Chat we are discussing the book A Body in the Library by Agatha Christie. How can a busybody spinster be a strong woman that solves a crime? Listen in and find out! In two weeks we will be reviewing The Natu...

Book Chat is a podcast featuring sisters-in-law Kate and Theresa. Please join us as we discuss books. This season we are focusing on strong women in books. Both real and not! This week on Book Chat we are discussing the book The Steerswoman by Rosemary Kirstein. This book delves into a world that may be fantasy, but it could be science fiction. Through it we see the power of the truth and how that...

Book Chat is a podcast featuring sisters-in-law Kate and Theresa. Please join us as we discuss books. This season we are focusing on strong woman in books. Both real and not! This week on Book Chat we are discussing the book A Rome of One's Own by Emma Southon. Women from Ancient Rome are not well known, and should absolutely be discussed. Some of them are strong, some of them are not. Dive in wit...

This week on Book Chat we are discussing the book Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith. We chatted about the history of the Civil War, Kansas, and what being in a battle must have felt like for a 16 year old during the 1860s. In two weeks we will be reviewing A Rome of One’s Own by Emma Southon. A Rome of One’s Own is a non-fiction introduction to women living throughout Roman history. Listed below ar...

Who made the best book into a movie? Who decided to make a book into series instead? These are our top 8 favorite book adaptations! Surprise mini episode! We hope everyone is having a wonderful week and remember to tune in next Sunday, March 29th, for our episode Rifles for Watie featuring guest and Mother/Mother-in-Law Laurie!

This week on Book Chat we are discussing the book Sister's of Sword and Song by Rebecca Ross. We chat about magic, siblings, romance, and mythology as they are discussed in this unique fantasy book. In two weeks we will be reviewing Rifles Watie by Harold Keith. This book is a historical fiction children's lit about set during America's Civil War. it can be found on Amazon, at Barnes and Nobles or...

Come explore the suspense/mystery novel, Such a Quiet Place by Megan Miranda with Kate and Theresa on this week's episode of Book Chat with Kate and Theresa. This week we explore dynamics of group mentality, and how misconceptions can lead to big problems. In two weeks we will be reviewing Sister's of Sword and Song by Rebecca Ross. This book is a fantasy/adventure, it can be found on Amazon, at B...

Dive into a Children's Literature with Kate and Theresa as they explore Anastasia the Last Grand Duchess by Carolyn Meyer and When Christmas Comes Again: The World War I Diary of Simone Spencer by Beth Seidel Levine. This week we revisit childhood favorites, discuss World War I and the impact it had on people living in different areas, and the tragedy of the Romanov family. This is a family friend...

This week we are explore Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. First published in 1811 this classic has been a favorite on bookshelves for over 200 years. Kate is new to Jane Austen, and Theresa experienced the world of Jane Austen for her entire life. Come enjoy this brand new podcast where we talk plots, characters, and fun moments from the books. In two weeks we will be covering Children Litera...