Reading Revisited

Kelsie Hartley, Hannah Suire, and Jessica Risma
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A place to hear us have some old fashioned book chat! readingrevisited.substack.com

  1. 3D AGO

    ep. 102: What We're Reading (March 2026)

    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 Reads: The Bellbird Letters: Inside the Devil’s Plan for Your Motherhood by Samantha N Stephenson Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet by Willams Shakespeare Hannah’s Reads Works of Mercy by Sally Thomas Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald Matilda by Roald Dahl Kelsie’s Reads Time of the Child by Niall Williams A Benedictine Education by John Henry Newman Greenery Street by Dennis McKail Books/Things Mentioned: The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo Story of a Soul by St. Therese of Lisieux Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes The Scarlet Letter by Nathanael Hawthorne The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky The House of the Seven Gables by Nathanael Hawthorne The Road by Cormac McCarthy Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis Anne Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Close Reads Podcast HQ episodes on This is Happiness This is Happiness by Niall Williams Taylor D'Amico Shakespeare In A Year The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald Orbital by Samantha Harvey Learning In The Poetic Mode w/ Amanda Faus The Children’s Tradition The Idea of a University by John Henry Newman George’s Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl 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 May The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 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: • [Background Music] Into The Light - C... | Creative Commons - Attribution ND 4.0 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

    1h 20m

  2. MAR 23

    ep. 101: Sane Homeschooling w/ Dixie Dillon Lane

    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. Ivana Greco Nadya Williams Dixie’s Top 5: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith Shadows On The Rock by Willa Cather The Dean’s Watch by Elizabeth Goudge Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner Life Among The Savages by Shirley Jackson Books/Things Mentioned: Works of Mercy by Sally Thomas The Children’s Tradition Spring Conference w/ Amanda Faus In Schooling as in Life, More Than Enough is Too Much by Dixie Dillon Lane Free Range Kids and the Parental Compass by Dixie Dillon Lane When Teaching Children History, Embrace Imagination by Dixie Dillon Lane “Neighbor Rosicky” by Willa Cather Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain The Place of Tides by James Rebanks Hearth & Field 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 May The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 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: • [Background Music] Into The Light - C... | Creative Commons - Attribution ND 4.0 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

    1h 21m

  3. MAR 16

    ep. 100: Anna Karenina Book Chat

    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 Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset Middlemarch by George Eliot The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky O Pioneers! by Willa Cather Othello by William Shakespeare 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 May The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 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: • [Background Music] Into The Light - C... | Creative Commons - Attribution ND 4.0 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

    1h 43m

  4. MAR 9

    ep. 99: Kristin Lavransdatter Chat (Book 2 - The Wife)

    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. 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: • [Background Music] Into The Light - C... | Creative Commons - Attribution ND 4.0 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

    1h 37m

  5. MAR 2

    ep. 98: Learning In The Poetic Mode w/ Amanda Faus

    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! Song: Into The Light Music composed and recorded by Oak Studios. Link: • [Background Music] Into The Light - C... | Creative Commons - Attribution ND 4.0 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

    1h 30m

  6. FEB 23

    ep. 97: Reader's Choice Book Draft

    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! Song: Into The Light Music composed and recorded by Oak Studios. Link: • [Background Music] Into The Light - C... | Creative Commons - Attribution ND 4.0 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

    1h 10m

  7. FEB 16

    ep. 96: A Lenten Book Chat (feat. our favorite Memento Mori Books)

    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! Song: Into The Light Music composed and recorded by Oak Studios. Link: • [Background Music] Into The Light - C... | Creative Commons - Attribution ND 4.0 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

    1h 34m

  8. FEB 9

    ep. 95: Kristin Lavransdatter Chat (Book One-The Wreath)

    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! Song: Into The Light Music composed and recorded by Oak Studios. Link: • [Background Music] Into The Light - C... | Creative Commons - Attribution ND 4.0 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

    1h 38m
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A place to hear us have some old fashioned book chat! readingrevisited.substack.com

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  • Creator
    Kelsie Hartley, Hannah Suire, and Jessica Risma
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    101
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Kelsie Hartley
  • Show Website
    Reading Revisited

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