Literary Wives is a virtual book club–a group of bloggers who are wives. Every other month we read a book about wives and incorporate the answers to a question into our reviews, following by a discussion:
What does this book say about wives or about the experience of being a wife?
You can participate by reading along with us and posting your comments or links to your reviews on any of our blogs or our new Facebook page.
The Books
June 2017: The Awakening by Kate Chopin
August 2017: On Beauty by Zadie Smith
October 2017: Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
December 2017: A Lady and Her Husband by Amber Reeves
February 2018: The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
April 2018: The Headmaster’s Wife by Thomas Christopher Green
June 2018: Stay With Me by Ayobami Adobayi
August 2018: First Love by Gwendolyn Riley
October 2018: An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
December 2018: The Stars Are Fire by Anita Shreve
February 2019: They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple
April 2019: Wait for Me, Jack by Addison Jones
June 2019: A Separation by Katie Kitamura
August 2019: Ties by Domenic Starnone
October 2019: Happenstance by Carol Shields
December 2019: The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
February 2020: War of the Wives by Tamar Cohen
June 2020: The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
September 2020: Alternate Side by Anna Quindlen
December 2020: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
March 2021: Every Note Played by Lisa Genova
June 2021: Greenwood by Michael Christie
September 2021: The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler
December 2021: The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams
March 2022: I’m Fine and Neither Are You by Camille Pagan
The Wives
Cynthia @ I Love Days
Cynthia
Cynthia is a former technical writer, business analyst, Peace Corps Volunteer, and teacher from Texas who traded that life in for two suitcases and a string of foreign addresses. Her husband calls this slow travel, and they’re starting it off with a year in Mexico. Cynthia loves sightseeing, but she’s secretly thrilled the slow schedule allows breaks from 12,000-step days for her favorite activity, reading.
Kay @ Whatmeread
Kay
Kay is a long-time professional technical writer (now retired—yippee!) who has taught composition and technical-writing courses at the college level. She loves reading all kinds of books. When she recently got an iPad and spent some hours playing games, her husband thought she’d undergone a personality change. But soon she was back to reading. She is the secret author of three (sadly unpublished) trashy romance novels.
Lynn @ Smoke & Mirrors
Lynn
Lynn is an avid reader, former Borders bookseller, and now blogger of books and reviews! She is mother to 3 sons, grandmother of 11 grandchildren, companion to one beautiful and “purr”fect gray kitty, Smokie, as well as 4 other sweet felines… Most importantly, she can count one of the kindest, most caring, and complex men she’s ever known as her full-time partner and husband.
Naomi @ Consumed By Ink
Naomi
Once upon a time, Naomi worked as a biologist, math tutor, and early childhood educator. Since then, she has been happily reading bedtime stories to three eager listeners, and hopes this will never change. She loves traveling around the Canadian Maritimes with her family, visiting the used book stores and bakeries.
And me,
Eva @ The Paperback Princess
Eva spent a lifetime talking to people who weren’t listening about books and reading until she realized that she could blog about them with people who did care. She lives on the West Coast of Canada where she continues to learn to love Canadian literature and talk about the weather. She’s most happy curled up in her reading chair, a cup of tea balanced on the armrest and her German shepherd lying at her feet. Eva has no patience for heroines who fit their lives around men.
The Paperback Princess 
