Our Christmas Book Haul
in which we get too many books for Christmas and love it
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 have a Christmas Discount on Paid Subscriptions. This gets you $2-3 off each month (depending if you do a monthly or yearly subscription). That price will last as long as you keep subscribing (it will never randomly go up, I promise)! So if you've been on the fence, between now and January 6th might be the best time to subscribe!
Hello Readers,
Merry Tenth Day of Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all! We hope you are having a lovely Christmas Break and spending lots of time with loved ones and loved books.
In lieu of a regularly scheduled essay or read along guide we are here to share some of the books we each got for Christmas. We hope you find some that are of interest to you or ones that you’ve already read and want to share with us about.
We would love to hear from you in the comments as well. What are some books you got for Christmas or are reading over this break?
Kelsie
The Novel, Who Needs It? by Joseph Epstein
Helena by Evelyn Waugh
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Need to be Whole by Wendell Berry
Blaming by Elizabeth Taylor (not pictured)
Book Press (so people know who to give the books back to when you recommend/lend too many out)
Ember Mug (for long reading stretches without reheating your hot drink!)
Hannah
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold by Evelyn Waugh
Home Education by Charlotte Mason
What Are People For? by Wendell Berry
Jessica
Why Literature Still Matters by Jason Baxter
Ordinary Work, Extraordinary Grace by Scott Hahn
Women of the Catholic Imagination by Haley Stewart
A Preface to Paradise Lost by C.S. Lewis
Island of the World by Michael O’Brien
American Catholic Daily Reader by Brian Burch and Emily Stimpson Chapman
Every Moment Holy by Ross McKelvey
The Liberation of Jerusalem by Torquato Tasso
The Pilgrim’s Regress by C.S. Lewis
Every Sacred Sunday Mass Journal by Every Sacred Sunday
Come, Creator Spirit by Raniero Cantalamessa
Divine Intimacy by Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen
Doors in the Walls of the World by Peter Kreeft
Until next time, keep revisiting the good books that enrich your life and nourish your soul.
In Case You Missed It:
On the Podcast:
Read Along Guides for Othello (from the lovely @Jessica Risma):
What We’re Reading Next:
February
Out of the Silent Planet AND Perelandra by C.S. Lewis
March
That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
April
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
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 as well as receive Read Along Guide PDFs each month, voice recordings of the Read Along Guides and Essays, and we are working on (printable) bookmarks for each book.
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!Reading Revisited is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
So excited for each of you. Lots of wonderful books!
Kelsie: Helena is amazing and I can’t wait to hear your thoughts. One of my top 20 last year. Also love the book press-Andrew got me my first when we were dating and a second one post marriage. I always press my books after reading and commonplacing and it adds a lovely bit of ritual to my literary life.
Hannah: that is the prettiest edition of Wuthering Heights I’ve ever seen. I’m due for a reread-last time I tried I was pregnant and it was just not what I was in the mood for (this was the same pregnancy where I had a crying fit after rereading Where the Red Fern Grows so I was super emotional that go around haha). And Andrew’s favorite nonfiction of Wendell Berry is probably that collection!
Jess: I LOVE the Every Sacred Sunday journal. I’ve been on a break from it because with where my kiddos are at right now it hasn’t felt possible, but I plan to go back to it when they’re older/better regulated during mass.
This is a serious book haul ladies! Well done! Love all the Wendell Berry :)