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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Our “conversation” is in the form of commenting on each other’s reviews. It’s more of a readalong/buddy read situation, really. I’ve also done individual buddy reads with one other blogger, where we tend to exchange e-mails as we read.
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That sounds a more uccessful formula. Noted. Thanks.
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A great new name Rebecca! I read Liars and thought it was quite good
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I didn’t love Liars but was outvoted; no matter — I can skim back through it and it will give us lots to discuss!
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An excellent update! Great new name, and great new image. I’ll follow along with interest.
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Sounds great!
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Good thinking with the inclusion of all couples, I’ve been meaning to read Brick Lane for years so this could be my chance!
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I, too, have meant to read it for many years.
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I guess I should put something up about this, too.
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I didn’t mean to scoop you, Kay. I guess you’ll want to update your page before September, but any other coverage is up to you!
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Oh, no, you didn’t. I wasn’t sure if we had finished with everything, and then frankly, I forgot. Your post reminded me, so I updated my page, but I just realized that I had intended to update the Facebook page today, and I forgot! (I hope I can figure out how. I’ve never tried to manage the page before.) I think it might make sense if we all announce it, because we all have our own followers, but then again, if others don’t want to, that’s fine.
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Oh… and here I thought you were reviewing the book by that title!
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Nope, it’s a good one, though. I’d reread if my library had it.
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