Reading Revisited

Welcome to Reading Revisited, a place for friends to enjoy some good old-fashioned book chat while revisiting the truth, beauty, and goodness we’ve found in our favorite books. We have turned on paid subscriptions which will allow you to support the work we are doing here as well as receive Read Along Guide PDFs each month, voice recordings of the Read Along Guides and Essays, and we are working o...

Welcome to Reading Revisited, a place for friends to enjoy some good old-fashioned book chat while revisiting the truth, beauty, and goodness we’ve found in our favorite books. We currently have a Christmas Discount on Paid Subscriptions. This gets you $2-3 off each month (depending if you do a monthly or yearly subscription). That price will last as long as you keep subscribing (it will never ran...

Welcome to Reading Revisited, a place for friends to enjoy some good old-fashioned book chat while revisiting the truth, beauty, and goodness we’ve found in our favorite books. Advent Books and Things Devotional (ish) The Reed of God by Caryll Houselander Bright Evening Star by Madeleine L’Engle Waiting for Christ by St. John Henry Newman Advent and Christmas Wisdom From St. Alphonsus Liguori (the...

Welcome to Reading Revisited, a place for friends to enjoy some good old-fashioned book chat while revisiting the truth, beauty, and goodness we’ve found in our favorite books. How to Read Dickens by Shannon Hood Shannon’s Top 5: Jane EyrePride and PrejudiceAnne of Green GablesLittle Dorrit/David CopperfieldThe Woman in White Other Books and Things: Muppet Christmas Carol A Tale of Two Cities by C...

Jess: The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio by Dante Beauty and Imitation by Daniel McInerny The Catholic Table by Emily Stimpson Chapman Kelsie: The Iliad by Homer (translated by Robert Fitzgerald) Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike #3) by Robert Galbraith Hannah: A Letter Addressed to Rev. E.B. Pusey by John Henry New...

Welcome to Reading Revisited, a place for friends to enjoy some good old-fashioned book chat while revisiting the truth, beauty, and goodness we’ve found in our favorite books. Books and Things Mentioned The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien Princess and the Goblin by George Macdonald The Golden Key by George Macdonald The Princess and the Curdie by George Macdonald Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson Jane Eyre...

Welcome to Reading Revisited, a place for friends to enjoy some good old-fashioned book chat while revisiting the truth, beauty, and goodness we’ve found in our favorite books. Cayce’s Top 5: other books/things mentioned: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Before Austen...

Welcome to Reading Revisited, a place for friends to enjoy some good old-fashioned book chat while revisiting the truth, beauty, and goodness we’ve found in our favorite books. You Can Find… Elise Boratenski …on Substack at The Commonplace Catholic Andrew Boratenski…off the internet reading a book! Wendell Berry Works Mentioned Jayber Crow Hannah Coulter Memory of Old Jack Port William Short Stori...

Welcome to Reading Revisited, a place for friends to enjoy some good old-fashioned book chat while revisiting the truth, beauty, and goodness we’ve found in our favorite books. Join us today as we assign our next book swap picks! Will Hannah revenge assign Kelsie a book after Kelsie made her read Flannery O’Connor? Will Kelsie ever stop assigning people the weirdest book on her shelf? Is Jess the...

Welcome to Reading Revisited, a place for friends to enjoy some good old-fashioned book chat while revisiting the truth, beauty, and goodness we’ve found in our favorite books. Frankenstein by Mary ShelleyOur Town by Thornton WilderArcadia by Tom Stoppard The Turn of the Screw by Henry JamesThe Pale Horse by Agatha ChristieThe Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgome...

Welcome to Reading Revisited, a place for friends to enjoy some good old-fashioned book chat while revisiting the truth, beauty, and goodness we’ve found in our favorite books. Books and Things The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner Reading Revisited ep. 3: Crossing to Safety w/ Sarah Van Hecke R...

Welcome to Reading Revisited, a place for friends to enjoy some good old-fashioned book chat while revisiting the truth, beauty, and goodness we’ve found in our favorite books. Today we are joined by short story enthusiast, Sarah Van Hecke , to chat about the short stories we read here at the Reading Revisited Book Club in September. We dive into each short story and draw out some things we couldn...

Welcome to Reading Revisited, a place for friends to enjoy some good old-fashioned book chat while revisiting the truth, beauty, and goodness we’ve found in our favorite books. Today we are chatting Commonplacing, that oft thrown out word in literary and education circles. We have the lovely, Elise Boratenski , tell us a bit about the history, her experience with it, and some practical tips for th...

Welcome to Reading Revisited, a place for friends to enjoy some good old-fashioned book chat while revisiting the truth, beauty, and goodness we’ve found in our favorite books. Join us today as we chat with Eleanor Bourg Nicholson about Gothic novels, Jane Eyre, the Brontes, and the never ending laundry. This was an especially fun conversation and we learned and laughed a lot! Contact Eleanor Elea...

Welcome to Reading Revisited, a place for friends to enjoy some good old-fashioned book chat while revisiting the truth, beauty, and goodness we’ve found in our favorite books. In today’s episode we pause and reflect on our summer reading! We consider how our reading rhythms have shifted, shout out some standout reads, and look ahead to our fall reading plans. Books and Things The Haunted Man and...

Welcome to Reading Revisited, a place for friends to enjoy some good old-fashioned book chat while revisiting the truth, beauty, and goodness we’ve found in our favorite books. Join us today as we chat with Autumn Kern about one of the possible vices book lovers can face, Book Gluttony. What should we do when the intellectual life turns into a gluttonous experience instead of the joyous and virtuo...

Welcome to Reading Revisited, a place for friends to enjoy some good old-fashioned book chat while revisiting the truth, beauty, and goodness we’ve found in our favorite books. Today we are joined by Katie Marquette of Born of Wonder to discuss Madeleine L’Engle as we get further in to this month’s book club pick: Walking on Water . Katie tells us a bit about L’Engle’s life and legacy as an author...

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Welcome to Reading Revisited, a place for friends to enjoy some good old-fashioned book chat while revisiting the truth, beauty, and goodness we’ve found in our favorite books. On today’s episode we are joined by a very special guest, Rachel Woodham . In her essay, Harry Potter, Read of Requirement , Rachel looks at the ways in which Rowling’s series speaks in a unique way to the current moment an...

Welcome to Reading Revisited, a place for friends to enjoy some good old-fashioned book chat while revisiting the truth, beauty, and goodness we’ve found in our favorite books. Jessica’s List * How the Church Has Changed the World by Anthony Esolen * Loss and Gain by St. John Henry Newman * To Crown With Liberty by Karen Ullo Hannah’s List * The Life of Our Lord by Charles Dickens * This Side of P...

On today’s episode, Jessica Risma tells us all about her reading life and her favorite books! Below are links to the many books mentioned in this episode! Top 5: Honorable Mentions * Frankenstein by Mary Shelley * To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee * Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy * East of Eden by John Steinbeck * G.K. Chesterton * Wendell Berry * Peter Kreeft * Alexander Solzhenitsyn * Joseph Pea...

Welcome to Reading Revisited, a place for friends to enjoy some good old-fashioned book chat while revisiting the truth, beauty, and goodness we’ve found in our favorite books. Join us today as we chat about our July Reading Revisited Book, East of Eden. We hope you enjoy this conversation about storytelling, sin, and the choices we have to choose the good. Books and Things * East of Eden by John...

September: Walking on Water by Madeleine L’Engle… Book Drop Day post by Kelsie Hartley Short Stories… Book Drop Day post by Sarah Van Hecke October: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte… Book Drop Day post by Brittney Hawver November: Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry… Book Drop Day post by Elise Boratenski December: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens… Book Drop Day post by Hannah Suire January: Othello by...

Welcome to Reading Revisited, a place for friends to enjoy some good old-fashioned book chat while revisiting the truth, beauty, and goodness we’ve found in our favorite books. Join us as we chat about our favorite books to pick up in the summertime! We discuss our suspicion of the typical idea of a “beach read”, dig into what makes a book feel sufficiently “summery”, and attempt to grow your TBR...

Welcome to Reading Revisited, a place for friends to enjoy some good old-fashioned book chat while revisiting the truth, beauty, and goodness we’ve found in our favorite books. Today we are here to chat about The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (our Reading Revisited June book). We chatted memory, narrative devices, culture, comedy, and lots more. We hope you enjoy the conversation about this...