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.
Trust by Hernan Diaz
Where to Find Sean
Close Reads Podcast
The Daily Poem Podcast
Look for Sean Johnson at his future 1,000 Good Books Project
Sean’s Top 5
* The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
* The Divine Comedy by Dante OR The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (RR 2022)
* Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy OR The Sword of Honor Trilogy by Evelyn Waugh
* A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
* As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Honorable Mentions (Poetry Edition)
Complete Works of Gerard Manly Hopkins
Slow Pilgrim by Scott Cairns
Collected Poems by John Robert Lee
Other Books and Things
Everything Sad is Untrue by Khosrou Daniel Nayeri (RR 2025)
Close Reads Series on Trust (with David Kern, Heidi White, Tim McIntosh, and Sean Johnson)
David Kern and Bethany Kern’s Book Store- Goldberry Books
In the Distance by Hernan Diaz
Trust by Domenico Starnone
On the Incarnation by Athanasius (Introduction essay by C.S. Lewis…On the Reading of Old Books)
New York Review of Books
The Rector of Justin by Louis Auchincloss
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (RR Book Swap Podcast 2024)
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Pevear translation)
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Katz translation)
The Divine Comedy (John Ciardi translation)
The Divine Comedy (Dorothy Sayers translation)
The Divine Comedy (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow translation)
Jason M Baxter’s translation of The Divine Comedy
The Power and the Glory by Graham Grene (RR 2021)
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Helena by Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (RR 2020)
ep. 53: Beauty and Imitation w/ DANIEL McINERNY
Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
Close Reads 2024 Year in Reading
Lacunae by Scott Cairns
Waiting on the Word by Malcolm Guite
The Eagle and the Hart by Helen Castor
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (RR ????)
The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
Hymns on Paradise by St. Ephrem the Syrian
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Coifer
The Death of Christian Culture by John Senior
The Children’s Tradition Curriculum by Amanda Faus
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. 51: Intro to Death Comes for the Archbishop and Willa Cather
* ep. 52: Bookish Bio of Joel J. Miller
* ep. 53: Beauty and Imitation w/
DANIEL McINERNY
* ep. 54: Revisiting the Moonstone
What We’re Reading Now/Next:
June
Trust by Hernan Diaz
July
Everything Sad is Untrue by
Khosrou Daniel Nayeri
August
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
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