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.
You Can Find…
…on Substack at Andrew Boratenski…off the internet reading a book!
Wendell Berry Works Mentioned
The Mad Farmer’s Liberation Front (poem found online)
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
Feminism, the Body, and the Machine (free PDF of the essay)…also featured in The Art of the Commonplace
Books and Things
Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson (and the sequel, Raising Demons)
Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth
The Letters of Magdalen Montague by Eleanor Bourg Nicholson (coupon code: REVISITED15)
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
An Experiment in Criticism by C.S. Lewis
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded Edition
Flannery O’Connor’s letters (The Habit of Being)
Uprooted by Grace Olmstead
What’s Wrong with the World by G.K. Chesterton
O Pioneers by Willa Cather
My Antonia by Willa Cather
The Professor’s House by Willa Cather
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Zorrie by Laird Hunt
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
Andrew’s Top 5
Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey
The Red Rising Series by Pierce Brown
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Until next time, keep revisiting the good books that enrich your life and nourish your soul.
In Case You Missed It:
What We’re Reading Now
October
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
November
Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
December
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Few Reminders:
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Reading Revisited ep. 22: Introducing Jayber Crow w/ the Boratenskis