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.

Joel’s Top “5”

The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa

(The Children of Men by P.D. James)

The Samurai by Shusako Endo

(Silence by Shusako Endo)

The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin

(Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin)

The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle

(The Day the Sun Died by Yan Lianke)

Til We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

(Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury)

Other Books/Things Mentioned:

First Blood by David Morrell

Where The Mountain Meets The Moon by Grace Linn

Portofino by Frank Schaeffer

Saving Grandma by Frank Schaeffer

Zermatt by Frank Schaeffer

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Passing by Nella Larson

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Library of America - Willa Cather Boxed Set

Virginia Posterell article about Cather

Willa Cather: Great American Novelist by Virginia Postrel

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Pilot Frixion Erasable Pens

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

In Case You Missed It:

On the Podcast:

* ep. 48: Our Favorite Spring Reads

* ep. 49: Revisiting That Hideous Strength

* ep. 50: What We’re Reading (March 2025)

* ep. 51: Intro to Death Comes for the Archbishop and Willa Cather

What We’re Reading Now/Next:

May

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

June

Trust by Hernan Diaz

July

Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri

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