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.
On today’s episode we are joined by a very special guest,
. In her essay, Harry Potter, Read of Requirement, Rachel looks at the ways in which Rowling’s series speaks in a unique way to the current moment and offers our children (and us) heroes and heroines that pursue the good despite the cost.
Books/Things Mentioned
Check out more of
’s work at the Circe InstituteHarry Potter Adult Set (British edition)
Kristen Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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Reading Revisited ep. 11: The Harry Potter Series with Rachel Woodham