Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
People April 2026 is nearly upon us. Join me and my cohosts Brian @BookishTexan and Hannah @HannahsBooks in enjoying reading about real people (biography, memoir, letters, diaries and more). You'll find a lively discussion on Discord discord.gg/zsTMKYZpA
StoryGraph challenge app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/0ccdc5fa-8aa5-4a86-8f41-5c0cb05f8005
The group read this year is by Bluestockings Susannah Gibson. Our schedule:
Week one - Prologue to end of chapter 3 (p49) by Sunday 5th April
Week two - chapters 4, 5, 6 (p139) by Sunday 12th
Week three - chapters 7 & 8 (p221) by Sunday 19th
Week four - chapters 9, 10, 11 (p294) by Sunday 26th
This year's prompts are once again quotations from real people and we invite you to interpret them as creatively as you like.
"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles." Sun Tzu
"Drawing myself for others, I have drawn myself with purer and better colours." Michel de Montaigne
"It had been startling and disappointing to me to learn that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they came from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them." Eudora Welty
My planned reading:
Seychelles Global Citizen James Mancham
The Story of a Heart Rachel Clarke
A Woman of Firsts Edna Adan Ismail
Selected Essays Virginia Woolf
Lady Sings the Blues Billie Holliday and William Dufty
Bluestockings Susannah Gibson
Buried Alice Roberts
Pointed Roofs Dorothy Richardson
The Vibrator Play Sarah Ruhl
People April 2026 is nearly upon us. Join me and my cohosts Brian @BookishTexan and Hannah @HannahsBooks in enjoying reading about real people (biography, memoir, letters, diaries and more). You'll find a lively discussion on Discord discord.gg/zsTMKYZpA
StoryGraph challenge app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/0ccdc5fa-8aa5-4a86-8f41-5c0cb05f8005
The group read this year is by Bluestockings Susannah Gibson. Our schedule:
Week one - Prologue to end of chapter 3 (p49) by Sunday 5th April
Week two - chapters 4, 5, 6 (p139) by Sunday 12th
Week three - chapters 7 & 8 (p221) by Sunday 19th
Week four - chapters 9, 10, 11 (p294) by Sunday 26th
This year's prompts are once again quotations from real people and we invite you to interpret them as creatively as you like.
"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles." Sun Tzu
"Drawing myself for others, I have drawn myself with purer and better colours." Michel de Montaigne
"It had been startling and disappointing to me to learn that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they came from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them." Eudora Welty
My planned reading:
Seychelles Global Citizen James Mancham
The Story of a Heart Rachel Clarke
A Woman of Firsts Edna Adan Ismail
Selected Essays Virginia Woolf
Lady Sings the Blues Billie Holliday and William Dufty
Bluestockings Susannah Gibson
Buried Alice Roberts
Pointed Roofs Dorothy Richardson
The Vibrator Play Sarah Ruhl
