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. 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...

On today’s episode, our co-host Hannah Suire is sharing all about her reading life and favorite books! Top 5: Bleak HousePride and PrejudiceMiddlemarchThe Remains of the DayThe House of Mirth Other books mentioned: Holes by Louis Sachar Roald Dahl Collection Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Unseduced and Unshaken by Rosalie de Rosset Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh The Great Divorce by C.S....

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner ( RR 2024 ) The Inferno by Dante (translated by Anthony Esolen) The Purgatorio by Dante (translated by Anthony Esolen) The Paradiso by Dante (translated by Anthony Esolen) Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset ( RR 2020 ) The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis ( RR 2022 ) Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos The Remains of...

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 about a few books each of us has been reading at the beginning of the summer. We hope that you find a book or two to inspire your summer reading. We also chat about reading rhythms and seasonal reading...