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.
Dr. Baxter’s Top 5:
Plato’s Phaedrus (also Plato’s Republic and Symposium)
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Laurus by Eugene Vodalazkin
The Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis
Books by Dr. Jason Baxter:
A Beginner’s Guide to Dante’s Divine Comedy
The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind
Why Literature Still Matters on Audible
Dr. Baxter’s Website - https://www.jasonmbaxter.com
Books and Things Mentioned
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
“Two Secrets for Reading Poetry Like C.S. Lewis”
Mini-Class: How to Read a Poem like C.S. Lewis (And Fall in Love with Poetry)
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin
“Ithika”
“Prayer”
“Insomnia”
“A Vision of Hell and a Taste of Paradise”
Appletopia by Brett T. Robinson
A Story of Anti-Christ by Vladimir Sergaevitch Soloviev
Until next time, keep revisiting the good books that enrich your life and nourish your soul.
What We’re Reading Now/Next:
September
Why Literature Still Matters by Jason Baxter
October
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
November
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
A Few Reminders:
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