Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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I'm mixing the forms of biographical writing for #peopleapril this year with graphic memoirs, essays, a travel journal, a play and some poetry as well a nature memoir.

My co hosts are Elisabeth @bouquinsbooks and Brian @BookishTexan
Join the lively conversation on Discord discord.gg/QsTcSfpEMJ

Jack's video about reading for joy youtu.be/t5kKPHhihbA?si=ZuoVrNHNeUis8VMF

People April books mentioned:
Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton
NonNonBa by Shigeru Mizuki translated by Jocelyne Allen
Things I Don't Want to Know by Deborah Levy
Notes to Self by Emilie Pine
Ash Wednesday from Collected Poems by TS Eliot
Syria: The Desert and the Sown by Gertrude Bell
When Stars Are Scattered by Omar Mohamed and Victoria Jamieson
The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman
Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley

Non People April books also mentioned;
A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez translated by Megan McDowell
Loot by Tania James
Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
Nesting by Roisin O'Donnell

Reading The Globe is hosted by Katja @PageTurnersWithKatja with co hosts for some elements including myself and Jack @spreadbookjoy
Spring Into Adventure is hosted by Debs @RaynorReadsStuff and others
Angelia @readandre-read is leading Endless Drama