Bouquins & Books | #PeopleApril Recommendations: memoirs and biographies that I love! @bouquinsbooks | Uploaded March 2023 | Updated October 2024, 8 hours ago.
I am cohosting People April, a readathon where you are invited to read nonfiction about people, with Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 .

Here is the announcement: youtube.com/watch?v=qU18gLrbKhU

Here are the prompts:
“Someone will remember us I say, even in another time.” Sappho
“Let them eat cake!” Marie-Antoinette
“Have patience. Go where you must go, and hope!” Martin Luther King
“Stupid is knowing the truth, seeing the truth, but still believing the lies” Morgan Freeman

0:00 Intro
2:30 Artists
7:47 Royals
12:25 Witnesses of history
16:59 Adventure
23:11 Truth and lies

Here are all the books that I mention:
Leonardo and the Last Supper; Ross King
Shakespeare; Bill Bryson
In my Father's Tribunal; Isaac Bashevis Singer
Cleopatra; Stacy Schiff
The Deadly Sisterhood; Leonie Frieda
The Romanov Sisters; Helen Rappaport
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas
If It Is a Man (or Survival in Auschwitz); Primo Levi
Born a Crime; Trevor Noah
The Lost City of Z; David Grann
A Death in the Rainforest; Don Kulick
(Tristes Tropiques; Claude Lévi-Strauss)
Into Thin Air; John Krakauer
The Forger's Spell; Edward Dolnick
The Adversary; Emmanuel Carrère
Happening; Annie Ernaux