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* Michael and Ethan in a Room with Scotch

* Wrapping up Persuasion by Jane Austen

* Next Up: Glorious Exploits and Nobber?

* Intermission

* Pokemon Rollout!

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Books and Things

Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry

I Like Me by Nancy Carlson

Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry

Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry

Window Poems by Wendell Berry

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

A Place on Earth by Wendell Berry

Sarah Clarkson’s old blog (she is now on Substack)

Book Girl by Sarah Clarkson

Read for the Heart by Sarah Clarkson

Remembering by Wendell Berry

The Art of the Commonplace by Wendell Berry

Think Little by Wendell Berry (PDF of an essay)

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Dante’s Divine Comedy (we think he was using the Sayers translation, but Jess and Kelsie are mostly reading Esolen)-Hell-Purgatory-Heaven

The Summa on the Summa by Peter Kreeft

Howard’s End by E.M. Forester

Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan

Walking on Water by Madeleine L’Engle

The Definition of Love by Andrew Marvell

“The way out of modernity is through it.”- Jason M Baxter on the Literary Life Podcast

Why Pastor’s Should Read Literature

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Anne of Green Gables movies (please, please, I beg you, don’t watch the third one)

“it was a dark and stormy night” contest

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Michael’s Top 5

I Am a Cat by Soseki Natsume

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Odyssey by Homer

Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

Honorable Mentions

Don Quixote by Cervantes

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Hamlet by William Shakespeare (and video link to Michael playing Hamlet)

Enders Game by Orson Scott Card

Peace by Gene Wolf

The Orchardist by Amanda Copland

Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (message Michael Lilienthal first!)

Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

Seven and a Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

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

In Case You Missed It:

* A Christmas Carol Stave 3 Revisited

* Reading Revisited ep. 27: Favorite Advent Reads

* A Christmas Carol Stave 2 Revisited

* A Christmas Carol Stave 1 Revisited

What We’re Reading Now:

December

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

January

Othello by William Shakespeare

February

Out of the Silent Planet AND Perelandra by C.S. Lewis

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