People April: Tilly and Ros sharing our highlights
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- Опубликовано: 5 май 2024
- The most exciting thing that's happened to me this weekend is that Tilly @tillysshelf came to visit bringing our new cat little Loki. But of course we also found time to talk books.
This is a People April highlights conversation.
A huge thank you from me to Elisabeth @bouquinsbooks who had the idea of a readathon based on life writing of all kinds. She and I have been thrilled by how booktube has embraced this and we will definitely bring it back for a third round in 2025 so even more of us can be inspired to read biographies, memoirs, letters, diaries and more. The Discord conversations have been tremendous so thanks to everyone on there, including those who expanded my experience of the groupread I Am I Am I Am by MaggieO'Farrell. I have really enjoyed watching the responses to the This or That book tag and all the other great #peopleapril content I've seen. I wish I could link to everything!
Elisabeth has done a brilliant round up about both the groupread and the stats from the tag answers • People April: Tag Stat...
Tilly and I mention #picturethis hosted by @spreadbookjoy and @Shellyish and the multiple People April videos by @saintdonoghue
If you want to check out many recommendations use the link to the Discord server / discord
Books mentioned by Tilly or me:
Strong Female Character by Fern Brady
Welcome To St Hell by Lewis Hancox
The Dam by David Almond and Levi Pinfold
Camille and the Sunflowers by Laurence Anholt
A Flat Place by Noreen Masud
Feral by George Monbiot
Thunderclap by Laura Cummings
The Midwife's Tale by Nicky Leap and Billy Hunt
The Tale of Princess Fatima, Warrior Woman
Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener translated by Julia Sanches
Handle With Care by Rachael Hearson
Why She Wrote by Lauren Burke and Hannah Chapman
A Nurse in Time by Evelyn Prentis
Raising Boys Who Do Better by Uju Asiha
I Can Be A Brave Adventurer by Frances Lincoln
Letters of Note: Mothers by Shaun Usher
Missing Persons or My Grandmother's Secrets by Clair Wills
Ducks by Kate Beaton
Loved People April - thank you for running it again. I find whenever I am running anything, life throws things at me! I read lots of memoirs the past couple of months and am planning a kind of People April wrap up (now combined with the ‘This or That’ tag!). Glad you enjoyed Welcome to Hell and Strong female Character - both amazing! So very pleased you loved The Dam - it’s so special. I’ve heard so many good things about Thunderclap. Sounds like you both had an amazing month of reading! ❤
I'm glad People April is striking a chord. Like Picture This it is a reminder to read something different and rewarding.
Lovely to watch you both chat about the Readathon. I had a great people April. My favourite was probably desert dawn
Waris Dirie's memoir? Looks good!
@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 yes it was
It must be wonderful to have someone close to share your love of books.
I do feel lucky to have this Linda.
What an amazing month you've both had!! I'm really interested in the midwifery one that Tilly spoke of. I really liked Ducks a lot, and I also got the picture book from the library that you recommended.
One I'm reading at the moment that I'd really recommend is Might Be Our Powers by Leymah Gbowee - a fantastic memoir set in Liberia.
Ducks was great. Gbowee sounds like an extraordinary woman.
It’s nice to see the two of you in one video. I will look for Dam; Levi Pinfold’s Black Dog is good and I suspect Dam is even better because David Almond is a brilliant writer. I’ve also added Princess Fatima to my TBR. 😊
You would love The Dam if it is available over there. I must get to Princess Fatima soon now I have it back.
Very enjoyable discussion.
Thanks Susan.
Best wishes with what you choose to read. I hope you get some great reads. I'm currently at page 913 of the Count of Monte Cristo. Still got some way to go. Happy reading.
I finally read that last year. Long but fun!
Great ideas for future reads. I seem to be reading everything in the wrong order, so totally missed people April. I got immersed in a historical fiction family series, so only just started Willie Nelson's autobiography.
But it doesn't matter really after all. Just enjoy it now!
@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 I agree. I rather enjoyed reading the extra books, more than I thought I would. So far this year I've finished 12 books, including 2 I started last year.
Wow, you both had a great reading month! I read one of my favorite books this year for people April, Traces of Enayat by Iman Mersal which is her investigation into the life of Enanyat Al-Zayyat who wrote one novel and then committed suicide. It has elements of Mersal’s own life but isn’t memoir as such and is just a haunting, melancholy story of trying to find out more about this women who so little is known about. I also read Matilda by Tracy Borman the wife of William the Conqueror, which I enjoyed once it got to 1066 but I do struggle with medieval history as there is so little existing evidence that isn’t biased and continued to read Anthony Trollope’s letters which I’ll probably still be reading next year.
You make such interesting choices Jo. I ought to read about more historical Matildas as Tilly's name is actually Matilda.
I loved fishing as a child and nature books so maybe Feral is a book for me. Meadowland by John Lewis-Stempel is a lovely re-wilding book, a year in the life of a haymeadow. I've been terrible at this event despite how much I loved the idea of it, I did read a book on Athelstan and I have bought the Mitford sister letters book you recommended.
I read Meadowland too. There was something lovely about the slow pace of the book and cycling through the seasons. A book on Athelstan sounds interesting.
I didn’t do anything ‘official’ but I did read two memoirs which were both five star wonders in April - A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa and Knife by Salman Rushdie - and they were pretty different!
Well reading memoirs in April about as official as anything else. Was Knife good? I'm really tempted by it.
@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 I thought Knife was really excellent - and I have also read Joseph Anton that was fantastic too. I find Rushdie's essays and memoirs consistently brilliant whereas I have a more patchy response to his novels.
Too much fishing content? Never!
Of course not too much for you dear Brian.
Finally I made it to this video! So lovely to see you both wrapping up this wonderful readathon!
My biggest disappointment was actually Strong Female Character. I had already bailed on it last year, but because everyone and their mother was singing its praise, I picked it up again. And dnf'd it the second time. And wrote as harsh of a review on StoryGraph as the author was in her book. I respect that it is a memoir, but being neurodivergent myself, the way it was written made me really angry.
My highlight was a book that was a piece of classic feminist literature in the former GDR, about women of all ages and professions and their experiences. Absolute fantastic, but unfortunately not translated into English.
That's really interesting to hear about Strong Female Character from your perspective. I am neurodivergent but in quite a different way from Brady and with less impact on my emotional life and relationships. I appreciated the book. I'll look for your review. I suppose a memoir is quite a personal thing for the author and so will also be for readers.
@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 That's also very interesting to hear. Thanks for sharing!