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.
Kelsie, I love your Wendell Berry collection! Jess, your quote from Chesterton about the "tyranny of women" within the sphere of education is fascinating to think about. Makes me think that the education of women should be a prominent priority for any society!
I love this conclusion from Chesterton’s quote. Too frequently, I hear women’s & men’s education discussed the opposite way. When someone will say, “I’m not even using my degree, what was the point?” Often implying a utilitarian mindset to education. One that suggests: If it doesn’t make money and I’m a way that is the direct outcome of that education’s focus, it’s wasted. Your conclusion is the better answer. If education is focused on the people that come after us (rather than only on the job I’m doing now), a different value-structure emerges.
I'm sorry, Kelsie; I can’t tell which of your posts was meant to clarify which. To make my question more clear, will the PDF booklets you have made for our last few group reads be behind the paywall?
Behind the paywall will be PDFs, bookmarks, and voice recordings.
The actual read along guide substack posts will remain free (along with all the podcasts, essays, and other random posts).
We are trying to figure out a way to put the PDFs up for sale if you didn’t want to subscribe but wanted access to just those, but don’t have all the kinks worked out yet!
My mom got a book by Wendell Berry for my dad for Christmas, and when he opened it we discovered that it was signed!
That is amazing! How cool!
Kelsie, I love your Wendell Berry collection! Jess, your quote from Chesterton about the "tyranny of women" within the sphere of education is fascinating to think about. Makes me think that the education of women should be a prominent priority for any society!
I love this conclusion from Chesterton’s quote. Too frequently, I hear women’s & men’s education discussed the opposite way. When someone will say, “I’m not even using my degree, what was the point?” Often implying a utilitarian mindset to education. One that suggests: If it doesn’t make money and I’m a way that is the direct outcome of that education’s focus, it’s wasted. Your conclusion is the better answer. If education is focused on the people that come after us (rather than only on the job I’m doing now), a different value-structure emerges.
I'm here for a good aesthetically pleasing book stack picture! Now I need to go reread Jess' quote and think about it!
So the Reading Guides will no longer be available for free subscribers?
The PDFs will also be behind the paywall, but the Substack posts will remain free.
I'm sorry, Kelsie; I can’t tell which of your posts was meant to clarify which. To make my question more clear, will the PDF booklets you have made for our last few group reads be behind the paywall?
Sorry to be confusing!
Behind the paywall will be PDFs, bookmarks, and voice recordings.
The actual read along guide substack posts will remain free (along with all the podcasts, essays, and other random posts).
We are trying to figure out a way to put the PDFs up for sale if you didn’t want to subscribe but wanted access to just those, but don’t have all the kinks worked out yet!
I should clarify that! The Reading Guides will never go behind the paywall, it is just the audio recording that will be behind the paywall.