ep. 63: Bookish Bio of Meredith Hinds

Reading Revisited is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Meredith Hinds is a Catholic wife and mom who moonlights as a freelance writer and editor. Her first project for children was A Saint A Day, a devotional published by Tommy Nelson. She also wrote Eucharistic Saints, a collection of stories about 25 Saints' love for the Eucharist, published by TAN, and is currently writing another round of Saint bios for teens with YDisciple. Meredith is having her sixth baby in September and runs a Substack newsletter called Still Today, which is essentially a mom blog, but Kelsie Hartley thinks that it's one of the funniest things on Substack, and you should definitely subscribe to it. For the purpose of our discussion today she loves our current Book Club Pick, Everything Sad is Untrue.Meredith’s Top 5* Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis* The Baronet’s Song by George MacDonald* Heidi by Joanna Spyri* Pinocchio by Carlo * Johnny Tremain by Esther ForbesOther Books and ThingsDreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin DreyerOliver Twist by Charles DickensDr. Dolittle SeriesEverything Sad is Untrue by Daniel NayeriThe Narnia Series by C.S. LewisWinnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne (and House at Pooh Corner)…actually just buy the whole set! Or here are the picture books!Cancer Ward by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynFlannery O’Connor Short StoriesAnne of Green Gables Series by L.M. MontgomeryAn example of Meredith’s hilarious acronyms (NFP article)Haley Baumeister’s Substack…Life ConsideredThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Arabian NightsPaul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther ForbesUntil next time, keep revisiting the good books that enrich your life and nourish your soul.What We’re Reading Now/Next:JulyEverything Sad is Untrue by Daniel NayeriAugustNorthanger Abbey by Jane AustenSeptember Why Literature Still Matters by Jason BaxterA Few Reminders:If you are wanting to get in on the in person or virtual community please contact us!We have turned on paid subscriptions which will allow you to support the work we are doing here as well as receive Read Along Guide PDFs each month and voice recordings of the Read Along Guides.If you would like to make a small contribution to the work we’re doing here at Reading Revisited, we invite you to do so with the Buy (Us) a Coffee button below. We so appreciate your support!*As always, some of the links are affiliate links. If you don’t have the books yet and are planning to buy them, we appreciate you using the links. The few cents earned with each purchase you make after clicking links (at no extra cost to you) goes toward the time and effort it takes to keep Reading Revisited running, and we appreciate it! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit readingrevisited.substack.com/subscribe