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. 4D AGO

    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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. FEB 2

    ep. 94: Revisiting The Merchant of Venice

    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: • [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 23m

  7. JAN 26

    ep 93: Bookish Bio of Aaron Hartley

    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

    1h 47m

  8. JAN 19

    ep. 92: What We're Reading (January 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. 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! 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 19m
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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
    98
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Kelsie Hartley
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    Reading Revisited

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