Hello Reading Friends,
This is a long awaited Miscellany post and I hope it finds you well! We’ve had quite the few months at Reading Revisited! It has been a lovely summer, but wow it gets busy fast. We’ve been visiting other YouTube channels, Podcasts, and hosting the most successful Book Drop Day to date! Along with our normal In Person and Virtual Book Clubs and our special Reading Revisited Society Podcasts and Book Clubs.
At the Hartley House we have been renovating a kitchen most of the summer and it is finally done (and beautiful)! We are so excited to finally be done. I posted some pictures a few weeks ago if you missed them.
Other than that, Hartley Baby #7 is doing great and finally letting me live a fairly normal life with lots of extra naps and a much more normal amount of reading.
I hope everyone else’s summers are going great and you are all getting the exact ratio of rest to fun that is included in your ideal summer!
Alright….onto the Reading Revisited Announcements…..
I’m not sure you possibly could have missed it, but in case you did….Book Drop Day was a HUGE success and so much fun! If you happen to have had all your notifications off and slept through the whole day, make sure to check out our new list for the 2026-2027 Reading Year! In that post you can click through and see all of the Book Drop Day Posts with all of our amazing guest writers!
If you see the list and immediately want to join an in person book club, please message me and I will get you in contact with your local leader (OR put on the bookish peer pressure to start your own group). We are growing a TON and there are new Reading Revisited Groups popping up all over the country (with a few international groups thrown in as well)!
This Week- ep. 118: What We’re Reading (July 2026)
because I’m sure your book stack isn’t falling over yet, we offer a few more books for your consideration….
Last Year- ep. 66: Where to Start in the Reading Life
just a few more books to read!
Coming Up- This Monday we will be releasing an interview with THE Joseph Pearce! Get yourselves excited because it is a lovely conversation!
GUYS! It is Jane Austen month! Not only that, but it is THE LAST Jane Austen month (until we start rereading her whole cannon before we missed her so much)! We are reading Mansfield Park as our last finished Jane Austen novel. If this is a novel you haven’t read yet, tried and put down, or don’t revisit as often….give it a try! You will not be disappointed, especially once you hear from the lovely Eleanor Bourg Nicholson on the topic! Read the Resource Roundup, read Eleanor’s article in the St. Austin Review, read (or listen to) the novel, and then listen to the podcasts coming up at RR in the next few weeks. I think you’re going to LOVE Mansfield Park!
And don’t forget to attend your local book club or hop onto our Virtual Meeting after you read!
Book Club
Mansfield Park Resource Roundup
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Jul 23
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.
Reread- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
American Classic- The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
If you aren’t a member of The Reading Revisited Society yet, I have to be honest, you are missing out on an AMAZING read through of Paradise Lost. But, it is not too late to join! We released our Book 6 (with a heavy dose of Frog and Toad) conversation this week and Book 7 will be out soon as well!
We will have our next Society Only Virtual Book Club mid-late September on Books 6-8 so keep an eye out for that date soon!
Introduction to Paradise Lost (free for everyone)
Book One (for Reading Revisited Society Members)
Book Two (for Reading Revisited Society Members)
Book Three (for Reading Revisited Society Members)
Book Four (for Reading Revisited Society Members)
Book Five (for Reading Revisited Society Members)
Book Six (for Reading Revisited Society Members)
My talk from The Children’s Tradition Spring Conference is finally available for EVERYONE up on YouTube. I gave this talk when I was 7 weeks pregnant with my 7th baby and it was the homeschool talk I needed to give myself in the trenches of real life. It might be what you need help yourself plan a beautiful, but realistic homeschool year!
The latest YouTube video from Autumn Kern about why Charlotte Mason Habit Training might not be working for your kids in your household….hint: it’s because you’re not a Victorian (and what you can do about it)
Hannah Elizabeth’s Live Tweeting (Substacking/not live I guess) of her first read of the Harry Potter books! It is amazing to see a well read adult pick up what J.K. Rowling is putting down. Things that took me years and multiple reads to see (because I read them when I wasn’t a well read reader yet) Hannah is seeing and predicting so well. Also, she is hilarious….probably because she reads so much Wodehouse. And a last “also,” we are going to have her on the RR podcast when she finishes the series to talk ALL about it! So watch out for that!
Rachel Woodham’s new book Let There Be Play: A Classical Guide to Joy and Discovery has been lovely! I bought it on a whim and am so glad I did! Autumn Kern also interviewed her about it and I haven’t gotten to listen to it yet, but I can’t wait to get a chance soon. And if you enjoy hearing from Rachel, we had her on the podcast over two years ago now to talk about her FIRST read of Harry Potter as well!
Speaking of books by RR friends, did you see that Dixie Dillon Lane’s new book, Skipping School got reviewed by the Wall Street Journal? So go grab yourself a copy and see what it is all about! Also mentioned on our latest podcast episode (as Jessica Risma is currently reading it) and we interviewed Dixie earlier this year as well!
And I cannot forget Meredith Hinds latest thoughts on why some people’s houses are cleaner than yours….or mine is what I think she meant!
And with that I will let you go get back to your (rainy, if you live near me) Saturday with many cups of coffee and tea and lots of books!
Till next time,
Kelsie Hartley
Until next time, keep revisiting the good books that enrich your life and nourish your soul.
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Paradise Lost by John Milton
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