Episode Description
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.
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Today we have on a special guest: Haley Stewart! Haley is an award-winning author, the Editor of Word on Fire Votive, and host of the Votive Podcast. She is a single mom of four and lives in Florida. She sometimes leads pilgrimages and she always needs more bookshelves.
Women of the Catholic Imagination edited by Haley Stewart
Where Else to Find Haley
Old Fountains of Carrots Podcast
Other Books by Haley Stewart
The Pursuit of the Pilfered Cheese
Jane Austen’s Genius Guide to Life
Haley’s Top 5
* Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (RR Pick) OR The Labors of Hercules Beal by Gary D. Schmidt
* Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin
* Persuasion OR Emma by Jane Austen (RR Picks)
* Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset (RR Pick)
* Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (RR Pick)
Other Books and Things
Brambley Hedge by Jill Barklem
Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Greene
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset (RR Pick)
The Secret History by Donna Tartt (RR Book Swap)
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (RR Pick)
Flannery O’Connor’s Short Stories (RR Pick)
In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden (RR Pick)
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (RR Pick)
Purgatorio by Dante (the new Jason M Baxter translation is out!)
The Dry Wood by Caryll Houselander (RR Pick)
The Habit of Being by Flannery O’Connor (her letters)
Greta Gerwig Little Women (movie)
Claire the Catholic Feminist (recommended Hecules Beal to Haley)
The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
I Am, I Am, I Am Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O’Farrell
This Must Be The Place by Maggie O’Farrell
Until next time, keep revisiting the good books that enrich your life and nourish your soul.
What We’re Reading Now/Next:
August
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
September
Why Literature Still Matters by Jason Baxter
October
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
A Few Reminders:
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