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 Stories

A Place on Earth

Andy Catlett

Remembering

The Mad Farmer’s Liberation Front (poem found online)

A World Lost

The Unsettling of America

What Are People For?

Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer

Feminism, the Body, and the Machine (free PDF of the essay)…also featured in The Art of the Commonplace

Nathan Coulter

Books and Things

Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson (and the sequel, Raising Demons)

Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth

Cheaper by the Dozen movie

Close Reads Podcast HQ

The Letters of Magdalen Montague by Eleanor Bourg Nicholson (coupon code: REVISITED15)

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

An Experiment in Criticism by C.S. Lewis

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded Edition

Flannery O’Connor’s letters (The Habit of Being)

Uprooted by Grace Olmstead

What’s Wrong with the World by G.K. Chesterton

O Pioneers by Willa Cather

My Antonia by Willa Cather

The Professor’s House by Willa Cather

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

Zorrie by Laird Hunt

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford

Peace Like a River by Leif Enger

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling

Andrew’s Top 5

Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey

The Red Rising Series by Pierce Brown

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Until next time, keep revisiting the good books that enrich your life and nourish your soul.

In Case You Missed It:

* Reading in Community

* Reading Revisited ep. 21: Book Swap #2 Announcement

* Jane Eyre Discussion Questions (and printable PDF)

* Reading Revisited ep. 20: Our Favorite Autumn Reads

* Reading Revisited ep. 19: Walking on Water

What We’re Reading Now

October

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

November

Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry

December

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

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