I’ve been part of the Literary Wives online book club for just over four years now. We recently decided to give the group a revamp, including a new name and feature image. The name was Becky’s idea and we all liked it for the literary reference. Part of our reasoning was to make things more inclusive, because future reads will cover same-sex marriages and we also want to think more broadly about love and roles in any long-term partnership. I’ve made a project page for it based on Kay’s.
Our current members are:
Becky of Aidanvale
Kate of Books Are My Favourite and Best
Kay of What? Me Read?
Marianne of Let’s Read!
Rebecca of Bookish Beck
Here’s our schedule for the next couple of years. Anyone is welcome to read along with us! We post reviews quarterly, on the first Monday of the month.
September 2026 – Family Family by Laurie Frankel
December 2026 – The Eden Test by Adam Sternbergh*
March 2027 – Wedded Wife by Rachael E. Lennon
June 2027 – Liars by Sarah Manguso
September 2027 – Brick Lane by Monica Ali
December 2027 – Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages by Phyllis Rose
March 2028 – The Course of Love by Alain de Botton
June 2028 – My Husband by Maud Ventura
(*I’m going to have to skip December’s read because I couldn’t find a way to acquire it affordably and I don’t think it will be to my taste anyway.)
Bookish Beck = Rebecca Foster. American transplant to England. Freelance proofreader and book reviewer.
Bookish Beck 
I’ve enjoyed Literary Wives but I think the update is a brilliant idea.
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Great names for a reading group, which obviously works for you. But I was recently – and briefly – a member of an online group, and it just didn’t work. Conversations just didn’t flow as too many, or two few ideas were introduced at once, and the online ‘conversation’ just didn’t flow. The group died the death.
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A great new name Rebecca! I read Liars and thought it was quite good
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An excellent update! Great new name, and great new image. I’ll follow along with interest.
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