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2025 Reading Review

A list of (mostly) wonderful books to add to your 2026 reading lists

Dec 21, 2025 • Elise Boratenski

November 2025

Literary Liturgical Living (Part 2)

In Part 1 of this series, I offered books to read during Advent, Christmastide, Epiphany, Marian feasts, and Ordinary Time.

Nov 28, 2025 • Elise Boratenski

Literary Liturgical Living (Part 1)

Literary picks for your liturgical calendar

Nov 10, 2025 • Elise Boratenski

October 2025

Quickly Commonplacing #11

Unexpected Twilight rants, Jane Austen rankings, and the language of the machine

Oct 27, 2025 • Elise Boratenski

Or, G.K. Chesterton hates the algorithm

Oct 15, 2025 • Elise Boratenski

September 2025

Quickly Commonplacing #10

Anna Karenina, bookish pods, and the Scottish Cotton-Eye Joe

Sep 18, 2025 • Elise Boratenski

Commonplace Reviews #2: Ruth

Elizabeth Gaskell on abortion, the beauty of Sacramental confession, and the superior version of the Victorian "fallen woman" novel

Sep 6, 2025 • Elise Boratenski

August 2025

Northanger Abbey Ch 18-23 Revisited

In which we leave behind Bath, arrive at Northanger Abbey, and watch Catherine embrace her gothic girl persona

Published on Reading Revisited • Aug 4, 2025

Northanger Abbey Ch 11-17 Revisited

In which Catherine earns a pat on the back, Mr. Tilney defends novels, and an engagement makes us cringe

Published on Reading Revisited • Aug 1, 2025

July 2025

Northanger Abbey Ch 1-10 Revisited

Jane Austen's irony takes no prisoners

Published on Reading Revisited • Jul 30, 2025

Quickly Commonplacing #9

Dispatches from a wonderful family vacation

Jul 18, 2025 • Elise Boratenski

Northanger Abbey: Introduction

Background, schedule, and themes

Published on Reading Revisited • Jul 12, 2025

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