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.

Frankenstein by Mary ShelleyOur Town by Thornton WilderArcadia by Tom Stoppard

The Turn of the Screw by Henry JamesThe Pale Horse by Agatha ChristieThe Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry

Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkeinRebecca by Daphne du Muarier

Honorable Mentions:

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

A Bloody Habit and Wake of Malice by Eleanor Bourg Nicholson (discount code REVISITED15)

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling

Hallowe’en Party by Agatha Christie

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Muarier

Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

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

In Case You Missed It:

* Reading Revisited ep. 19: Walking on Water w/ Sarah Van Hecke

* Jane Eyre Volume 3 Revisited

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

* October Commonplace

A Few Reminders:

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

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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

The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

Reading Revisited ep. 3: Crossing to Safety w/ Sarah Van Hecke

Reading Revisited ep. 14: How to Kill Book Gluttony w/ Autumn Kern

The Crosswicks Journals (A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great Grandmother, The Irrational Season, Two-Part Invention) by Madeleine L’Engle

Beauty and Imitation by Daniel McInerny

An Experiment in Criticism by C.S. Lewis

God is Beauty by St. Pope John Paul II

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis

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

In Case You Missed It:

* Jane Eyre Volume 3 Revisited

* Reading Revisited Re-Reading Bracket: Round Three (last day to vote!)

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

* October Commonplace

A Few Reminders:

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

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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.

Today we are joined by short story enthusiast, Sarah Van Hecke, to chat about the short stories we read here at the Reading Revisited Book Club in September. We dive into each short story and draw out some things we couldn’t help but notice (a la George Saunders). We also talk about the short story form in general and why it is an important addition to any reading life. I hope you enjoy!

“In a short story there’s no escaping it, it’s right there. You will be forced to confront it.”- Sarah Van Hecke

Short Stories

The Hint of an Explanation by Graham Greene

The Father by Caryll Houselander

First Confession by Frank O’Connor

Books and Things

* How To Fight Book Gluttony w/ Autumn Kern

* Christendom College (Prof. Sharon Hickson)

* The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton

* A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders

* God Made Sunday by Walter Macken

* The Best American Short Stories (Yearly Anthologies)

* The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

* The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

* The Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos

* Megamind Movie

* A Bloody Habit by Eleanor Bourg Nicholson (discount code: REVISITED15)

* Wake of Malice by Eleanor Bourg Nicholson (discount code: REVISITED15)

* Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith

* Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

* Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

* Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

* My Oedipus Complex by Frank O’Connor (free on the internet)

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

In Case You Missed It:

* October Commonplace

* Jane Eyre Volume 2 Revisited

* Reading Revisited ep. 17: Commonplacing w/ Elise Boratenski

* Revisiting Lazy Murder

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.

Today we are chatting Commonplacing, that oft thrown out word in literary and education circles. We have the lovely, Elise Boratenski, tell us a bit about the history, her experience with it, and some practical tips for those wanting to get started! Enjoy!

(Also I hope you enjoy funny stories about poultry ownership! If you don’t feel free to fast forward twenty minutes…)

Where to Find Elise

The Commonplace Catholic on Substack

Books and Things

Kelsie’s Bullet Journal

Mystery and Manners by Flannery O’Connor (RR 2021)

Kelsie’s Perfect Pencil (or Pen!)

Book Darts

Sticky Flags (very aesthetically pleasing)

Middlemarch by George Eliot (RR 2024)

Sticky Tab Dividers

Disc Notebooks

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (RR 2024)

The Rocket Book

The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot

Elise’s Substack Post on Elizabeth Gaskell

Hannah’s Post on Reading Against Her Ruins

Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling

Top 5

* Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather (RR 2025)

* Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

* Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

* Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (RR 2024)

* Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (or this paperback set)

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

In Case You Missed It:

* Revisiting Lazy Murder

* Jane Eyre Volume 1 Revisited

* Reading Revisited ep. 16: Intro to Jane Eyre and Gothic Novels w/ Eleanor Bourg Nicholson

* A (very brief) Prelude to Jane Eyre

A Few Reminders:

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

Message Kelsie Hartley

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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 chat with Eleanor Bourg Nicholson about Gothic novels, Jane Eyre, the Brontes, and the never ending laundry. This was an especially fun conversation and we learned and laughed a lot!

Contact Eleanor

Eleanor’s Website

* Buy from her website to more directly support her

* Get a discount (Code: REVISITED15)

* Sign up for her newsletter

* Send her an email, she loves to chat with readers!

Eleanor’s Books

* Magdalen Montague

* A Bloody Habit

* Brother Wolf

* Wake of Malice

* The Hound of the Lord (The Story of Saint Dominic)

* Ignatius Critical Editions

* Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

* Dracula by Bram Stoker (RR 2022)

* Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (RR 2020)

Other Books and Things

Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset (RR 2020

Master of Hestivaken (The Axe) by Sigrid Undset (yes this is the same book in the better translation, trust me!)

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Dracula by Bram Stoker (RR 2022)

Desiring the Kingdom by James K.A. Smith

You Are What You Love by James K.A. Smith

Perelandra (RR 2025)

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens (or this version)

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

My Brother’s Keeper by Tim Powers

Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome

Top 5

The Collected Works of Jane Austen

David Copperfield (or all of Dickens….this link is not actually all, but some)

Barchester Towers Series (The Warden, Barchester Towers, and Framley Parsonage) by Anthony Trollope

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers

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

In Case You Missed It:

* A (very brief) Prelude to Jane Eyre

* Jane Eyre Introduction

* Reading Revisited ep. 15: Revisiting Our Summer Book Stacks

* Jane Eyre Reading Schedule

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.

In today’s episode we pause and reflect on our summer reading! We consider how our reading rhythms have shifted, shout out some standout reads, and look ahead to our fall reading plans.

Books and Things

The Haunted Man and the Ghosts Bargain by Charles Dickens

Searching For and Maintaining Peace by Fr. Jacques Philippe

Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

The Literary Life Podcast - Agnes Grey

Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth by Catherine Pakaluk

The Woman Who Was Poor by Leon Bloy

Dante’s Inferno - Translated by Anthony Esolen

Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know by Joseph Pearce

I Cheerfully Refuse - Leif Enger

Loss and Gain by St. John Henry Newman

The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Great Stone Face by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Birth Mark by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Bloody Habit by Eleanor Bourg Nicholson

The Letters of Magdalen Montague by Eleanor Bourg Nicholson

Tolkein: Man and Myth by Joseph Pearce

Jane Eyre (Ignatius Critical Edition) by Charlotte Brontë

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor

Raising Demons - Shirley Jackson

Beauty and Imitation by Daniel McInerny

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

In Case You Missed It:

* Jane Eyre Reading Schedule

* WoW (3/3) and First Confession Reading Guide

* RR ep. 14: How to Fight Against Book Gluttony w/ Autumn Kern

* On Reading Against My Ruins

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 chat with Autumn Kern about one of the possible vices book lovers can face, Book Gluttony. What should we do when the intellectual life turns into a gluttonous experience instead of the joyous and virtuous experience it should be?

We had a very fun conversation and I hope you find camaraderie and some good advice.

Where to Find Autumn

The Commonplace Podcast

Common Mom on Youtube

Common House (mighty network for paid subscribers with so many resources for anyone looking for more help in educating in the Charlotte Mason and Classical Tradition)

Books and Things

* Unwelcoming Gluttony from the Table of Sophia (article that Autumn got Book Gluttony from)

* The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs

* Risen Motherhood

* Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

* Eustace Scrubb (from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis)

* The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

* Grimm’s Fairy Tales

* Anne of Green Gables

* Anne of Avonlea

* Anne of the Island

* A Mother’s Rule of Life

* Parents Review Article on Mother Culture

* Tsh Oxenreider’s Rule of Life Resource

* The Power of Silence

* The Divine Comedy (or the Esolen Translation)

* Introduction to the Divine Comedy

* The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

* The Children’s Tradition Curriculum (based on John Senior, a Catholic Professor who helped start the Great Books curriculum) by Amanda Faus

* Little Men

* Pride and Prejudice

* Little Women

Autumn’s Top 5

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

The Awakening of Miss Prim by Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera

Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry

Kristin Lavransdatter (The Wreath) by Sigrid Undset

Leave it to Psmith by P.G. Wodehouse

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

In Case You Missed It:

* On Reading Against My Ruins

* WoW and The Father Reading Guide

* Reading Revisited ep. 13: Intro to Madeleine L'Engle with Katie Marquette

* Revisiting Our Summer Bookshelf

A Few Reminders:

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

*As always, some of the links are affiliate links. If you don’t have the books yet and are planning to buy them, I 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 I 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.

Today we are joined by Katie Marquette of Born of Wonder to discuss Madeleine L’Engle as we get further in to this month’s book club pick: Walking on Water. Katie tells us a bit about L’Engle’s life and legacy as an author, as well as her own experience with both her fiction and nonfiction works. She also addresses concerns that some readers have about L’Engle’s theological perspectives and offers us a great way to approach this month’s book!

Where to Find Katie Marquette :

* Audio Consulting

* Go to Ireland with Katie!

Books and Things Mentioned:

* The Wrinkle in Time Quintet by Madeleine L’Engle

* The Crosswicks Journals by Madeleine L’Engle

* The O’Keefe Family Books by Madeleine L’Engle

* Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art by Madeleine L’Engle

* Poem: After Anunciation by Madeleine L’Engle

* The Giver by Lois Lowry

* Kristen Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

* Til We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

* Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

* And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

* Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery

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

In Case You Missed It:

* Revisiting Our Summer Bookshelf

* WoW and The Hint of An Explanation Reading Guide

* Reading Revisited ep. 12- Pride and Prejudice Revisited

* Laurels and Liberty by Jessica Risma

A Few Reminders:

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

*As always, some of the links are affiliate links. If you don’t have the books yet and are planning to buy them, I 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 I appreciate it!

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Pride and Prejudice

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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.

On today’s episode we are joined by a very special guest, Rachel Woodham. In her essay, Harry Potter, Read of Requirement, Rachel looks at the ways in which Rowling’s series speaks in a unique way to the current moment and offers our children (and us) heroes and heroines that pursue the good despite the cost.

Books/Things Mentioned

* Check out more of Rachel Woodham’s work at the Circe Institute

* Harry Potter Adult Set (British edition)

* Kristen Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

* Middlemarch by George Eliot

* Heidi by Johanna Spyri

* Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

* Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri

* A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

* Jane Austen

* East of Eden by John Steinbeck

* Literary Life Podcast Episode 232: Harry Potter Series

In Case You Missed It:

* Walking on Water and Short Stories Reading Schedule

* Pride and Prejudice Discussion Questions and Reading Guide PDF

* Reading Revisited ep. 10: What We’re Reading (August)

* Monthly Commonplace - August

A Few Reminders:

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

* Here is the whole list of this years book selections

* Book lists from previous years can be found here.

* Instagram

*As always, some of the links are affiliate links. If you don’t have the books yet and are planning to buy them, I 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 I appreciate it!

Song: Into The Light Music composed and recorded by Oak Studios. Link:   

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