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.

(Shoutout to Elise Boratenski and everyone who is participating in our book bracket this year!)

Don’t forget to check out our episode on Kristin Lavransdatter Book 1: The Wreath AND the amazing essay by Jessica Risma called “Why Read Literature: Kristin Lavransdatter Edition”

Books/Things Mentioned:

O Pioneers! by Willa Cather

In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden

Episode 77: On The Role of Literature in Formation w/ Emily Stimpson Chapman

Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Kristin Lavransdatter Audiobook

The Divided Soul: Duty and Desire in Literature and Life by Heidi White

Paradise Lost by John Milton

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

What We’re Reading Next:

February-April

Kristen Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

Paid Subscriber Read-Along

Paradise Lost by John Milton

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.

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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.

Classical U

The Death of Christian Culture by John Senior

The Restoration of Christian Culture by John Senior

Teaching From Rest by Sarah Mackenzie

Norms and Nobility by David Hicks

Poetic Knowledge by James Taylor

Amanda’s Top 5:

Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Iliad by Homer

Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

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

What We’re Reading Next:

February-April

Kristen Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

Paid Subscriber Read-Along

Paradise Lost by John Milton

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.

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.

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:

February-April

Kristen Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

Paid Subscriber Read-Along

Paradise Lost by John Milton

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.

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.

Our Favorite “Memento Mori” Books

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

A Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul by George MacDonald

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

Our Town by Thornton Wilder

Rilla of Ingleside by Lucy Maud Montgomery

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

The Divine Comedy by Dante

A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken

Other Books/Things Mentioned

Check out Rhea Forney and The Reader and The Writer

Attende Domine (Lent Prose)

Word in the Wilderness by Malcom Guite

The Noonday Devil: Acedia, the Unnamed Evil of Our Times by Dom Jean-Charles Nault

Death on a Friday Afternoon by Fr. Richard John Neuhaus

The Power of the Cross: Good Friday Sermons from the Papal Preacher by Raniero Cantalamesa

These Beautiful Bones: An Everyday Theology of the Body by Emily Stimpson Chapman

Why Read Fiction - Kristin Lavransdatter Edition by Jessica Risma

The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

Richard II by William Shakespeare

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

Death Comes For the Archbishop by Willa Cather

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

The Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry

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

What We’re Reading Next:

February-April

Kristen Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

Paid Subscriber Read-Along

Paradise Lost by John Milton

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.

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.

Shoutout to Cindy Rollins for a great goodreads review of this book that gave us a very helpful image for opening up this book!

Dante’s Inferno

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

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

What We’re Reading Next:

February-April

Kristen Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

Paid Subscriber Read-Along

Paradise Lost by John Milton

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.

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.

Annotation Garden

In This House of Brede by Rumor Godden

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

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

What We’re Reading Next:

February-April

Kristen Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

Paid Subscriber Read-Along

Paradise Lost by John Milton

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.

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!

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

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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 are still running our Christmas Sale on Paid Subscriptions if you were hoping to read along with us for Paradise Lost! You have til Candlemas (February 2nd) to save money!

We have started our LONG BOOK for the year, Kristin Lavransdatter. Join us in being changed this Lent by a beautiful story!

Aaron’s Top 5

* Kristin Lavransdatter

* The Lord of the Rings

* Genesis (or Samuel or Matthew)

* Paradise Lost

* The Long Ships

Other Books and Things

Michael Lilienthal of Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch

Reading Revisited ep. 28: Revisiting Jayber Crow

Reading Revisited ep. 49: Revisiting That Hideous Strength

Les Miserables

Petrarch

Montaigne

Emily Wilson’s Illiad and Odyssey

Lattimore Illiad and Odyssey

Fitzgerald Illiad and Odyssey

The Diary of a Country Priest (old translation)

The Diary of a Country Priest (new translation)

Michael Katz’ The Brothers Karamazov

Grammar for a Full Life

Reading Revisited ep. Introduction to Paradise Lost

The Hobbit

Watership Down

Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose

The Scarlet Letter

Pride and Prejudice

Reading Revisited ep. 12: Revisiting Pride and Prejudice: in which Jess puts the Bennetts on a budget and pitches a new Austen Adaptation

Sarah Clarkson’s Substack

Book Girl by Sarah Clarkson

A Book of Strife in the Form of a Diary of an Old Soul by George MacDonald

Heretics

Orthodoxy

A Kindle

Wartime Wisdom: Ten Uncommon Insights from The Lord of the Rings About Evil….a talk by Peter Kreeft

Aaron’s Blurb on Kristin from Book Drop Day!

Read With Us

I deeply hope that you decide to read with us over the next three months. I am thoroughly convinced that if you give Kristin time, she will change your life. As you start reading please tell us what you are thinking and as always, we hope you enjoy your In Person or Virtual Book Clubs!

If you are looking for an in person group, message me and I can either help you find one or start your own. If you’d like to join a virtual option, message me as well. We now have two time zone options for those of you wanting to participate in Europe!

Feel free to share this Introduction with any reader you know who might want to read along with us during Lent! And let us know how your read of Kristin is going as well!

We are still running our Christmas Sale on Paid Subscriptions if you were hoping to read along with us for Paradise Lost! You have til Candlemas (February 2nd) to save money!

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

What We’re Reading Next:

January

Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

February-April

Kristen Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

Paid Subscriber Read-Along

Paradise Lost by John Milton

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.

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!

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit readingrevisited.substack.com/subscribe

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.

Hannah’s Reads

Mossy Trotter by Elizabeth Taylor

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion by Beth Brower

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Elise’s Reads

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

The Return of the Shadow by Christopher Tolkien

Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield (shoutout to Dominika for yet another home-run recommendation!)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

Jessica’s Reads

King John by William Shakespeare

The Dignity of Dependence by Leah Libresco Sargeant

This is Happiness by Niall Williams

Kelsie’s Reads

Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

Lethal White by Cormoran Strike

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Books/Things Mentioned:

P.G. Wodehouse

Jane Austen

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Redwall by Brian Jacques

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery

The Golden Key by George Macdonald

The 4:50 From Paddington by Agatha Christie

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Weapons of Mass Instruction by John Taylor Gatto

The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by G. Edward Griffin

What We’re Reading Next:

January

Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

February-April

Kristen Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

Paid Subscriber Read-Along

Paradise Lost by John Milton

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.

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.

Books/Things Mentioned

Under The Sun of Satan by Georges Bernanos

English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Excluding Drama) (The Clark Lectures) by C.S. Lewis

The Two Greatest Novels Ever Written by Peter Kreeft

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

ep. 67: Women of the Catholic Imagination w/ Haley Stewart

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion by Beth Brower

The History of Rain by Niall Williams

Malcolm Guite Podcast

A Preface to Paradise Lost by C.S. Lewis

A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver

ep. 89: Introduction to Paradise Lost w/ Aaron Hartley

What We’re Reading Next:

January

Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

February-April

Kristen Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

Paid Subscriber Read-Along

Paradise Lost by John Milton

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.

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!

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

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This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit readingrevisited.substack.com/subscribe

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.

Jessica’s Top 5 for 2025

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (audible audiobook read by David Horovitch)

The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis

The Man Born to Be King by Dorothy L. Sayers

Island of the World by Michael O’Brien

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Hannah’s Top 5 for 2025

Memento Mori by Muriel Spark

The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

Mrs. Palfrey At The Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor

An Unsuitable Attachment, Excellent Women, No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym

The Feast by Margaret Kennedy

Kelsie’s Top 5 for 2025

The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie

Helena by Evelyn Waugh

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

This is Happiness by Niall Williams

The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark

Other Books/Things Mentioned

The Top Ten Novels I Read in 2024 by Dominika

The Odyssey by Homer

Aiding and Abetting by Muriel Spark

4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie

Emma M. Lion by Beth Brower

Lord Peter Wimsey Books by Dorothy L. Sayers

Close Reads Podcast HQ Episodes on Bridge of San Luis Rey

Til We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh

Blaming by Elizabeth Taylor

“The writers who ruin all other writers for you” by Dominika

ep. 69: Book Swap #2 - The Secret History

Literary Life Podcast Episode 301: Alduous Huxley’s Brave New World

Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

“Is The Erstwhile Boss Babe Interested in Tradwifing It On A Budget” by Lane Scott

Shakespeare In A Year by Taylor D'Amico

Ballad of the White Horse

“Thetis and Achilles”

The Good Death of Kate Montclair by DANIEL McINERNY

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Norms and Nobility by David Hicks

How To Stay Married by Harrison Scott Key

Noted by Annelise Roberts

Attic Thoughts by Katie Marquette

The Moderate Midwife Ann Ledbetter

What We’re Reading Next:

January

Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

February-April

Kristen Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

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.

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!

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

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