Reading Revisited

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.

We have turned on paid subscriptions which will allow you to support the work we are doing here as well as receive Read Along Guide PDFs each month, voice recordings of the Read Along Guides and Essays, and we are working on (printable) bookmarks for each book.

We have a Christmas Discount on Paid Subscriptions. This gets you $2-3 off each month(depending if you do a monthly or yearly subscription). That price will last as long as you keep subscribing (it will never randomly go up, I promise)! So if you've been on the fence, between now and January 6th might be the best time to subscribe!

Hello, Readers!

In today’s episode we are joined by special guest Fr. Tom Pressley. We hope you enjoy this conversation on Shakespeare and the reading life and makes you even more excited to pick up The Bard this month!

Fr. Tom’s Top 5:

Harry Potter

Lord of the Rings

Neverwhere

Gates of Fire

Ender's Game

Honorable Mentions:

The Confessions by St. Augustine

Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales

The Story of a Soul by St. Therese of Lisieux

The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

Books and Things Mentioned

The Curious Christmas Trail by Haley Stewart

Henry V

Julius Caesar

Romeo and Juliet

Othello

The Tempest

Hamlet

Macbeth

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Literary Life Podcast: Why Pastors Should Read Fiction

A Tolkien Miscellany

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

In Case You Missed It:

* Othello Introduction and Reading Schedule

* A Christmas Carol Stave 5 Revisited & Discussion Questions

* Reading Revisited ep.29: Bookish Bio of Colleen Adams (aka Jess’ Mom!)

* Leisure: Antidote to the Busy Murder of Christmas

What We’re Reading Now:

January

Othello by William Shakespeare

February

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

March

That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis

A Few Reminders:

If you are wanting to get in on the in person or virtual community please contact us!

We have turned on paid subscriptions which will allow you to support the work we are doing here as well as receive Read Along Guide PDFs each month, voice recordings of the Read Along Guides and Essays, and we are working on (printable) bookmarks for each book.

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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.

We have turned on paid subscriptions which will allow you to support the work we are doing here as well as receive Read Along Guide PDFs each month, voice recordings of the Read Along Guides and Essays, and we are working on (printable) bookmarks for each book.

We have a Christmas Discount on Paid Subscriptions. This gets you $2-3 off each month (depending if you do a monthly or yearly subscription). That price will last as long as you keep subscribing (it will never randomly go up, I promise)! So if you've been on the fence, between now and January 6th might be the best time to subscribe!

Happy Monday,

We have been waiting to share this conversation with you all since this summer. We got to chat with Colleen Adams (Jess' mom!) about all things literary, mothering, homeschooling, Catholic, and more. Enjoy!

“The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.”-St. Edith Stein

Top 5 Fiction

* Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

* Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

* The Chronicles of Narnia (esp. The Silver Chair) by C.S. Lewis

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

* The Song at the Scaffold by Gertrude Von Le Fort

Top 10 Non-Fiction

* Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum by Laura Bequirst

* All Saint Books (Vision series)

* Letters of Spiritual Direction by St. Francis de Sales and St. Jane de Chantel

* Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila

* Joan of Arc by Mark Twain

* The True Face of Padre Pio by Maria Winowska

* Life of Christ by Fulton Sheen

* Holiness for Housewives and Other Working Women

* True Devotion to Mary by St. Louis de Montfort

Other Books and Things

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Once and Future King by T.H. White

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Echos by Maeve Binchy

Rome Sweet Home by Scott Hahn

Tom Playfair by Franis J. Finn?

Brave Buffalo Fighter by John D. Fitzgerald

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Charlotte Mason (here are her volumes)

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

Mother of Divine Grace Curriculum

Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb

School Toys (Pattern Blocks and Building Toys (aka Forbidden Fruit Blocks)

The Reed of God by Caryll Houselander

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink

The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

Endurance by Alfred Lansing

Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken

Loss and Gain by St. John Henry Newman

The Tears of Christ by St. John Henry Newman

The Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Shining by Stephen King

Dante’s Divine Comedy (The Inferno)

Essays on Women by Edith Stein

The Privilege of Being a Woman by Alice Von Hildebrand

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

In Case You Missed It:

* Leisure: Antidote to the Busy Murder of Christmas

* A Christmas Carol Stave 4 Revisited

* A Christmas Carol Stave 3 Revisited

* A Reading Revisited Bookish Gift Guide

* Reading Revisited ep. 27: Favorite Advent Reads

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

A Few Reminders:

If you are wanting to get in on the in person or virtual community please contact us! If you have started a group and we don’t know about it, please let us know so we can get you some resources to help you out!

We have turned on paid subscriptions which will allow you to support the work we are doing here as well as receive Read Along Guide PDFs each month, voice recordings of the Read Along Guides and Essays, and we are working on (printable) bookmarks for each book.

If you would like to make a small contribution to the work we’re doing here at Reading Revisited, we invite you to do so with the Buy (Us) a Coffee button below. We so appreciate your support!

*As always, some of the links are affiliate links. If you don’t have the books yet and are planning to buy them, we appreciate you using the links. The few cents earned with each purchase you make after clicking links (at no extra cost to you) goes toward the time and effort it takes to keep Reading Revisited running and we appreciate it!

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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.

We currently have a Christmas Discount on Paid Subscriptions. This gets you $2-3 off each month (depending if you do a monthly or yearly subscription). That price will last as long as you keep subscribing (it will never randomly go up, I promise)! So if you've been on the fence, between now and January 6th might be the best time to subscribe!

Where to find Michael on the Internet

Michael Lilienthal on Substack

The Tapestry Radio Network

* 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

A Few Reminders:

If you are wanting to get in on the in person or virtual community please contact us! If you have started a group and we don’t know about it, please let us know so we can get you some resources to help you out!

We have turned on paid subscriptions which will allow you to support the work we are doing here as well as receive Read Along Guide PDFs each month, voice recordings of the Read Along Guides and Essays, and we are working on (printable) bookmarks for each book.

If you would like to make a small contribution to the work we’re doing here at Reading Revisited, we invite you to do so with the Buy (Us) a Coffee button below. We so appreciate your support!

*As always, some of the links are affiliate links. If you don’t have the books yet and are planning to buy them, we appreciate you using the links. The few cents earned with each purchase you make after clicking links (at no extra cost to you) goes toward the time and effort it takes to keep Reading Revisited running and we appreciate it!

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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.

Advent Books and Things

Devotional (ish)

The Reed of God by Caryll Houselander

Bright Evening Star by Madeleine L’Engle

Waiting for Christ by St. John Henry Newman

Advent and Christmas Wisdom From St. Alphonsus Liguori (there is a whole series)

Shadow and Light by Tsh Oxenreider

O Come, Emmanuel by Kendra Tierney

Waiting on the Word by Malcolm Guite (also his Lent one is great too!)

Novels

The Dean’s Watch by Elizabeth Goudge

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Dickens at Christmas (The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain)

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The 450 From Paddington by Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie

Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Arthur Conan Doyle

Things for the Whole Family

Rejoice! Advent Prayer Card Set

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson(Kelsie here: I must admit that I have been informed by my children that we have never actually finished this one..apparently we have read more each year, so maybe this will be our year!)

Letters from Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore

The Curious Christmas Trail by Haley Stewart (Sister Seraphina Mystery)

The Legend of Saint Nicholas by Demi

Mortimer’s Christmas Manger by Karma Wilson

Jan Brett’s Christmas Treasury

Holly & Ivy by Rumer Godden (Illustrated by Barbara Cooney)

Merry Beggars Christmas Carol (podcast episodes)

Little Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (slightly adapted)

Other Books and Things

Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry

The Divine Comedy by Dante

Reading Revisited ep. 22: Introduction to Jayber Crow with the Boratenskis (podcast)

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Lane Scott’s Opening Ceremonies in the Mom Olympics (and now the next installment is out) (essay)

Revisiting Lazy Murder (essay)

Why it MATTERS What You DO For Christmas with Your Kids (video) from Autumn Kern

Book Darts

Foster by Claire Keegan

Any Eleanor Bourg Nicholson books (code:REVISITED15)

Introduction to Dickens w/ Shannon Hood

The Intellectual Life by OP A.G. Sertillanges

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 2 Revisited

* A Christmas Carol Stave 1 Revisited

* Reading Revisited ep. 26: Intro to Dickens and A Chrismas Carol with

Shannon Hood

* Jayber Crow Part III

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

A Few Reminders:

If you are wanting to get in on the in person or virtual community please contact us!

We have turned on paid subscriptions which will allow you to support the work we are doing here as well as receive Read Along Guide PDFs each month, voice recordings of the Read Along Guides and Essays, and we are working on (printable) bookmarks for each book.

If you would like to make a small contribution to the work we’re doing here at Reading Revisited, we invite you to do so with the Buy (Us) a Coffee button below. We so appreciate your support!

*As always, some of the links are affiliate links. If you don’t have the books yet and are planning to buy them, we appreciate you using the links. The few cents earned with each purchase you make after clicking links (at no extra cost to you) goes toward the time and effort it takes to keep Reading Revisited running and we appreciate it!

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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.

How to Read Dickens by Shannon Hood

Shannon’s Top 5:

Jane EyrePride and PrejudiceAnne of Green GablesLittle Dorrit/David CopperfieldThe Woman in White

Other Books and Things:

Muppet Christmas Carol

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Kristen Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

Neil Gaiman Christmas Carol Reading

The History of the Ancient World by Susan Weiss Bauer

Book Stand

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Intellectual Life by O.P. A. G. Sertillanges

Schole Sisters Podcast

Griffin Gooch - substack writer mentioned by Shannon Hood

Leisure: The Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper

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

In Case You Missed It:

* Jayber Crow Part III

* Reading Revisited ep. 25: What are we reading?

* Wendell Berry Commonplace

* Jayber Crow Part II

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

A Few Reminders:

If you are wanting to get in on the in person or virtual community please contact us!

We have turned on paid subscriptions which will allow you to support the work we are doing here as well as receive Read Along Guide PDFs each month, voice recordings of the Read Along Guides and Essays, and we are working on (printable) bookmarks for each book.

If you would like to make a small contribution to the work we’re doing here at Reading Revisited, we invite you to do so with the Buy (Us) a Coffee button below. We so appreciate your support!

*As always, some of the links are affiliate links. If you don’t have the books yet and are planning to buy them, we appreciate you using the links. The few cents earned with each purchase you make after clicking links (at no extra cost to you) goes toward the time and effort it takes to keep Reading Revisited running and we appreciate it!

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Jess:

The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio by Dante Beauty and Imitation by Daniel McInernyThe Catholic Tableby Emily Stimpson Chapman

Kelsie:

The Iliad by Homer (translated by Robert Fitzgerald) Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth TaylorStation Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike #3) by Robert Galbraith

Hannah:

A Letter Addressed to Rev. E.B. Pusey by John Henry Newman Dumb Witness by Agatha ChristieThe Good Death of Kate Montclair by Daniel McInerny

Gareth Hinds Graphic Novels Iliad and Odyssey

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

The Pursuit of the Pilfered Cheese by

Haley Stewart

Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection by Robert Farrar Capon

Cosy: The British Art of Comfort by Laura Weir

Our Town by Thornton Wilder

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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.

Books and Things Mentioned

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

Princess and the Goblin by George Macdonald

The Golden Key by George Macdonald

The Princess and the Curdie by George Macdonald

Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson

Jane Eyre and Theology of the Body by Jessica Risma

Close Reads Podcast HQ episodes on Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre Talks Back by Elise Boratenski

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

In Case You Missed It:

* Jayber Crow Part 1

* Reading Revisited ep. 23: Cayce Bernhardt’s Bookish Bio

* Theology of the Body & Jane Eyre

What We’re Reading Now:

November

Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry

December

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

January

Othello by William Shakespeare

A Few Reminders:

If you are wanting to get in on the in person or virtual community please contact us!

If you would like to make a small contribution to the work we’re doing here at Reading Revisited, we invite you to do so with the Buy (Us) a Coffee button below. We so appreciate your support!

*As always, some of the links are affiliate links. If you don’t have the books yet and are planning to buy them, we appreciate you using the links. The few cents earned with each purchase you make after clicking links (at no extra cost to you) goes toward the time and effort it takes to keep Reading Revisited running and we appreciate it!

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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.

Cayce’s Top 5:

other books/things mentioned:

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Before Austen Comes Aesop by Cheri Blomquist

Little Men by Louisa May Alcott

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

The Power of Silence by Robert Cardinal Sarah

Consoling the Heart of Jesus by Fr. Michael Gaitley

The Apostolate of Holy Motherhood

Tending the Heart of Virtue by Vigen Guroian

Divine Intimacy

The Seven Sorrows of Mary by Joseph Hollcraft and Ruth Berghorst

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

In Case You Missed It:

* Theology of the Body & Jane Eyre

* Jayber Crow Introduction and Schedule

* Reading Revisited ep. 22: Introducing Jayber Crow w/ the Boratenskis

* Reading in Community

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

What We’re Reading Now:

November

Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry

December

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

January

Othello by William Shakespeare

A Few Reminders:

If you are wanting to get in on the in person or virtual community please contact us!

If you would like to make a small contribution to the work we’re doing here at Reading Revisited, we invite you to do so with the Buy (Us) a Coffee button below. We so appreciate your support!

*As always, some of the links are affiliate links. If you don’t have the books yet and are planning to buy them, we appreciate you using the links. The few cents earned with each purchase you make after clicking links (at no extra cost to you) goes toward the time and effort it takes to keep Reading Revisited running and we appreciate it!

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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

A Few Reminders:

If you are wanting to get in on the in person or virtual community please contact us!

If you would like to make a small contribution to the work we’re doing here at Reading Revisited, we invite you to do so with the Buy (Us) a Coffee button below. We so appreciate your support!

*As always, some of the links are affiliate links. If you don’t have the books yet and are planning to buy them, we appreciate you using the links. The few cents earned with each purchase you make after clicking links (at no extra cost to you) goes toward the time and effort it takes to keep Reading Revisited running and we appreciate it!

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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.

Join us today as we assign our next book swap picks! Will Hannah revenge assign Kelsie a book after Kelsie made her read Flannery O’Connor? Will Kelsie ever stop assigning people the weirdest book on her shelf? Is Jess the kindest person we’ve met even in her literature assignments? Find out in this episode…

Book Swap Picks

Kelsie to Jess….The Secret History

Jess to Hannah…Ivanhoe

Hannah to Kelsie…My Cousin Rachel

Books and Things

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Charlotte Mason’s Volumes

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Sin and the Gothic Novel

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

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

In Case You Missed It:

* Jane Eyre Discussion Questions (and printable PDF)

* Reading Revisited ep. 20: Our Favorite Autumn Reads

* Reading Revisited ep. 19: Walking on Water

* Jane Eyre Volume 3 Revisited

* Reading Revisited ep. 18: Short Stories w/ Sarah Van Hecke

A Few Reminders:

If you are wanting to get in on the in person or virtual community please contact us!

If you would like to make a small contribution to the work we’re doing here at Reading Revisited, we invite you to do so with the Buy (Us) a Coffee button below. We so appreciate your support!

*As always, some of the links are affiliate links. If you don’t have the books yet and are planning to buy them, we appreciate you using the links. The few cents earned with each purchase you make after clicking links (at no extra cost to you) goes toward the time and effort it takes to keep Reading Revisited running and we appreciate it!

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