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.

Elise’s Draft Picks:

#1: Vanity Fair by William Makepiece Thakeray

#2: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

#3: Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

#4: Shadows On the Rock by Willa Cather

Kelsie’ Draft Picks:

#1: China Court by Rumer Godden

#2: Viper’s Tangle by Francois Mauriac

#3: The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin

#4: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Hannah’s Draft Picks:

#1: Works of Mercy by Sally Thomas

#2: Absent in the Spring by Mary Westmacott (Agatha Christie)

#3: Theo of Golden by Allen Levi

#4: The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Jessica’s Draft Picks:

#1: A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller

#2: The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

#3: By What Authority by Robert Hugh Benson

#4: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Other Books/Things Mentioned:

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Withering Heights by Emily Brontë

In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden

Close Reads Podcast HQ episodes on Canticle for Leibowitz

Literary Life Podcast episodes on The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Close Reads Podcast HQ Episodes on Viper’s Tangle

Sally Thomas - Poems Ancient and Modern

Risking Enchantment Podcast

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell

Come Rack, Come Rope by Robert Hugh Benson

Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson

On Reading Well by Karen Swallow Prior

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

What We’re Reading Next:

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Kristen Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

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Paradise Lost by John Milton

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