Hi Simon - I've recently watched all your Hay Festival interviews for Sky Arts. I really enjoyed them. I thought you were excellent. You came across as so relaxed, genuine and friendly. I'm imagine in reality it was very nerve wracking. I really hope to see you doing something similar in future. Great work. Thanks for all your continued booktube dedication 😃
Awwww thank you so much. I really, really enjoyed filming the show. Totally nerve inducing BUT all the guests were lovely and I am in a very good place with my nervous energy, harnessing it and taking it as a positive. Lol. So lovely to get this comment.
🦊thank you! I have got back into reading this year and you've helped a lot with that. I've been a BK fan since The Bean Trees and I loved loved loved Demon Copperfield. I have read some great books from your recommendations. thanks again.
@@SavidgeReadsstill trying to get to the Sleeper Porter and trying to finish the Fraud , I started off really enthusiastically 🎉 just realised that I am answering and posting in your May , June and July wrap up 🎉 🎉 instead of September’s / time for bed said Zebedee 😂
The tangents and waffle is my favourite part though 😅👑 It only highlights your passion for books which is fabulously contagious btw. And vlogs to come sounds brill! Thanks for all you do. - I like that you include dnf’s. It’s not permanent so we can come back later if we want. But it also just shows that we know what we like and want our time reading spent well. Searching for the high of it and all that 😎 - Always here till the end 📚🦊
Awwww thank you. As always a lovely comment from you Cecilia. There will always be waffle. I can’t help it. I think some of my DNF’s will be permanent, well one definitely will. Hahaha. 🦊
Great to have another video from you Simon, I'm also very excited for autumn and can't wait to see what you read next. Meandering wrap ups and favourite moments sound great to me 📚🦊
I've missed your wonderful wrap ups! I'm definitely going to get hold of a copy of that Kate Atkinson book - it sounds amazing. 🦊 I'm looking forward to watching your DNF video because it's something I struggle to do. I will read a book to the bitter end and then feel cross that I wasted my reading time. 🙄
Ooh you have had a big bumper one with this video and I think my next one 'drops' on Sunday. They're like buses it seems none for ages and then two turn up in quick succession.
May: 1. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery 2. Sophie’s Pack by Dakiara 3. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien 4. The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell 5. The Kingdom by Jess Rothenberg 6. Nona by Stephen King 7. For Owen by Stephen King 8. A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas 9. Time and Again by Jack Finney 10. Survivor Type by: Stephen King 11. Uncle Otto’s Truck by: Stephen King 12. Morning Deliveries (Milkman # 1) by: Stephen King 13. Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game (Milkman #2) 14. Gramma by Stephen King 15. The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet by Stephen King 16. The Reach by Stephen King 17. Ashes, Ashes by Jessica Goeken June; 24. End of the Watch by J.S. Dawes 25. Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome by Anthony Everitt 26. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare 27. TSFG&E The Camelot Years: The One True King by Soman Chainani 28. The Bladed Faith by David Dalglish July: 1. Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish 2. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 3. Merchants of Virtue (The Huguenot Connection Book One) by Paul C.R. Monk 4. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe 5. Jane Austen in Real Life: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne 6. Charlotte by Helen Moffett🦊
📚I loved the Poisonwood Bible, liked Tomorrow x 3 and loooooooved Shrines of Gaiety! I very rarely DNF, particularly if I’ve bought it, I’m more likely to with a library copy. I DNFed Demon Copperhead last November and sent it back to the library only to take it back out in May when I saw it was up for the Women’s Prize……..and loved it! A case of right book wrong time? Or ‘it’s not you its me’ literary edition!🦊
It’s such a good book and I do feel I need to go digging for more gems and not always being a magpie and looking at the shiny new or hyped. I’ll definitely be heading to more Mootoo too.
I must try Kingsolver’s , The Poison Wood Bible again as I had problems getting in to it, twice. However her Demon Copperhead was one of my favorite books this year. The Bee Sting by the way was another favorite 🎉 my latest DNF was The Other Eden such a shame. Thank you, Simon. 🦊
Pleasure Jane. Will see if The Bee Sting is shortlisted for the Booker and then maybe I shall read it, if I read the shortlist that is. Undecided. Do give the Poisonwood Bible another whirl if you fancy it, it may just not be a book for you, we can't all love the same things.
📖🦊What an epic wrap up! I would love a DNF video. I just DNF’d a book earlier this week and it felt liberating! I often shift to skimming instead of DNF’ing and I don’t know why. You’ve made me want to reread Poisonwood Bible, which is an undertaking! Cannot wait for autumn officially to arrive. Best time of the year!
Autumn is the best of all the seasons and those who agree are my favourite of all the people. Ha. I used to hate DNFing. Now I love it. Liberating is the world, there is the mild worry of FOMO, yet very rarely am I wrong when I DNF… if I’ve skimmed to check. Hahaha.
📖🦊 loved this wrap up, meant loads of chat about books which is always a good thing! I have ordered the Kate Atkinson and hoping it will be delivered this week, i also have cereus blooms at night on your recommendation so looking forward to getting to those soon. 😊
Hope you enjoy the Kate Atkinson when it gets to you and you get to it. And of course Cereus Blooms, I may have to read another Mootoo book imminently. I loved that book so much.
After highlighting the Kate Atkinson short story collection l had to buy. It arrived today and the cover and feel is gorgeous! This will be a Christmas present to someone who will love it. Thanks again for showing it to us!
Loved this video thank you. I am looking forward to Autumn so much, it is a lovely season and I am currently reading Kate Atkinson’s Normal Rules Don’t Apply. Her writing always enchants me and this book is a complete joy📚🦊
Autumns the season I feel most myself. It’s also when I get planning and plotting the most which has started kicking in over the last few days. It’s also book festival season which means travelling about a bit for work which I also love.
Death of a Bookseller looks great. Must have a look at that. Golly my mum used to talk about a film about Nellie Bly and she remembered it for years and years. Can't remember what it was called, but hearing about the book reminded me of that. Hmm I looked at tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow and didn't buy it. Perhaps I should have another look. I have a real problem with DNFing anything I need to be tougher, I reckon. I'm envious that you still have Shrines of Gaeity to read - I loved it altogether. Must get the Kate Atkinson short stories. I don't normally buy short story collections but you made that sound really tempting. 🦊📘🦊
If you’re not usually a fan of short stories maybe wait for the paperback or see if your library has it in. Same with Tomorrow x3, though that is out in paperback. It seems 2023 could be my year of short stories as I’ve now got three in my top five of the year so far.
It's not that I'm not a fan of short stories, I help to run a short story website and spend a huge amount of time every day reading them and then setting them up. Mind you a short story by the wonderful Kate Atkinson has got to be a cut above I would have thought. it was short story writing that got me started trying to have things published so really I should be the world's biggest fan! Nowt as funny as folk is there. LOL@@SavidgeReads
Well my TBR's just grown substantially! I used to consider DNFing a book as a personal failure, but as soon as I got over that my reading life became a lot happier 🦊
The Franchise Affair was published in 1948 when attitudes about how women should behave were not what they are today ... especially in certain groups / classes ... it was inspired about a 'real life' case that had been in the papers.
🦊 📚…Simon you make me chuckle….and buy even more books 😳 Thank you for your thoughts and your banter. Currently reading Essex Boys by Dan Jones, cannot put it down… I’ve got a while medieval thing going on atm..god knows why!! 🤗Have a great bank holiday xx
Great wrap up vid, as always. I was pleased to see you got on well with I Have Some Questions for You. Do you have any spooky reads planned for autumn? Might I suggest some of Vernon Lee’s psychological supernatural tales? I’m currently bewitched by her writing, and I think more readers should know about her work.
Ooh thanks for the recommend. I haven’t decided about spooky or autumnal books yet, even though I am DESPERATE for Autumn to be here. Ha. I’ve noted the author though in case. I need to get through more of the books I already have on my shelves really. Lol.
I dont think Ive been interested in a makkai book until this video 👀 also the fact that at the end of life, someone has regretted all the books they hadnt DNF-ed is the most terrifying and sobering thing😂
I would recommend Woman 99 by Greer McAllister as a better alternative to Madwoman! I gave it 4/5stars as I recall! Just had to pop that in the comments while I temblor… only 7 minutes in but I’m sure I’ll be back before rhe end😂
I'm thinking about DNF, but it is very difficult for me, especially since I paid for it and it might get better (or maybe not ha). Will we see the Persephone room one day?🦊📚
Shame about Madwoman. I read the first chapter as part of a try a chapter thing and thought it was excellent. I haven’t gotten back to it yet, so I don’t know if I’ll have the same reaction as you. Has Louise read it? I’ve never read Kate Atkinson, but the cover on her new one with the 🐕 and the 🦊 is stunning. It’s a possibility. Just had a new #1 book for the year with A Little Luck by Claudia Pineiro. It’s fabulous. Clytemnestra was #1 for a long long time, but it has been pushed down to #2. 📚
Yes Mum has read it. Think she talked about it recently and had similar thoughts… though she finished it. Ha. I recently read one of Claudia Pinerio’s backlist books and thought it was brilliant.
I have difficulty dnf-ing (still can't quite get my head around the verb structure 🤔) books, and I'm not sure why. I think it's because I'm always hopeful they'll get better. But yes, life is too short. 📖🦊
🦊I recently listened to the audiobook of the 'Nasty Women' essay collection, which I recommend to anyone interested, but specifically you might enjoy the essay by Kaite Welsh about fashion as a butch lesbian! It was really interesting and one of my favourites in the collection. I think you can also access as a Telegraph article - Kaite does/did a column for them - but I don't know if they're the exact same. Also joining in the love for Tomorrowx3 - it was maybe my third read of the year back in the heady long-ago days of January but it's still one of my faves and it gives me the fuzzies when I think about it
Tomorrow X3 wants corker and also a surprise hit for me. I really wasn’t sure if I was going to love it… a slightly risky move when you agree to host an event with the author. Hahaha.
Erm, it depends what you mean by unknown, which I’m trying to decipher. There’s a wild array of exciting ingredients from all over the world. Some which maybe trickier to get but when that may be the case, for anyone not lucky enough to have an international supermarket near by though they’re delightfully much more commonplace, Andi offers other more readily available alternatives.
Thank you for that video. I read The summer without men years ago and I don't remember much. I just found it boring. The other women where far more interesting than the main caracther. I'm currently reading Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. It's fantastic !
I dunno. It might just not be to everyone’s taste and that’s ok. We can’t all love the same books or writing styles. I think if it didn’t hook you in straight away it may not have done.
@@SavidgeReads , agreed. I just included this in my latest Reading update...not posted yet...and I do feel there's too little time & so many books I want to read. I'm an early DNFer...but I try not to DNF too too early.
Oooooh that’s interesting. There’s a few of us. And yet it won the Women’s Prize. I am going to have another crack at it. Third times the charm, hopefully.
📚📚📚 Regarding DNFing a book, I think it should be seen not as a failure on the reader's part or the writer's part. For whatever reason, it just wasn't the right fit or the right time. Since I read books I own as well as some borrowed from the library, sometimes I'll set aside one of my own books if I've got due dates coming up for library books. Also, not to be too pedantic, but I think that buying, borrowing, or being gifted a book isn't akin to entering into a contract to read it. Full stop. Obviously, there are times when there are professional or academic commitments to read something, but this pertains to everything else in one's reading universe. I wonder if those of us who read physical books feel more pressure or guilt when we DNF, that we might not feel if the item wasn't tangible?
i also enjoyed Open Throat, but you're so right! it's not GAY ENOUGH!!! i feel like a bit of queer baiting was involved here. with the length, some more queer bits could've been written in, easily.
Exactly. I mean don’t get me wrong STUNNING writing. But it’s like an editor said ‘you know a narrator mountain lion isn’t enough. We need an extra hook… make it gay.’ And the marketing team went wild 🦁
I’ve loved all Barbara Kingsolver s books. Have you tried Lacuna on audio? There’s been an increase of racial hate attacks here. A mosque was vandalised 2 days ago & business’ owned by immigrants attacked. In the political vacuum here, the far right is gaining ground. My copy of The Sleeping Car Porter, remains unread. I’ve just finished All The Little Bird Hearts 🤩 I’m still listening to The Bee Sting My e copy of Prophets Song has just arrived. Looking forward to your DNF video. I’ve given up on books for all sorts of reasons. One book I picked up again this month and made myself finish. Pachinko However I still wonder if it was worth the effort & time. 🍀👋☘️📖📕☕️📚🇮🇪
I don’t really fare very well with fiction on audio, I feel like I say this a lot. Hahaha. It just doesn’t work for me. Hope you enjoy The Sleeping Car Porter when you get to it. Just a tiny thing on sharing some of the not so great news that’s going on around you. I think we need to be wary of doing that in a space that’s really just about escaping with books. The world is going mad and sometimes we just need spaces away from that.
I watched this 3 different times on 3 different walks & realized I never commented. I highly look forward to these and am content to wait for them! I kinda like getting more at once ! Blahdiggityblah 📖🪱💚
It's ok, you don't have to comment on every video. It is lovely when people do but as someone who is a bit of a lurker on other channels, I understand. Also life gets in the way.
Oh this is going to be amazing; your wrap ups are legendary to me🎉lovely to see you again, Simon! 😊
Hope you enjoy it Fiona!
YAY!!! A wrap up!!! I bloody love your wrap ups! What a treat.
Hope you enjoyed it Charlotte. There’ll be another one in the not too distant future. They’re like buses. None for ages… then whoosh.
Hope you're recovering well, Simon! What a joy this bumper wrap-up was 🧡💛🦊📚
I’m doing good, a video has actually dropped with a mini update on that… and a big update on lots of other things.
Reading Wrap-up funk/slump.... I have been there! Yep. I'm sure I will again.😌
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I think it’s something all book lovers go through now and again.
Totally agree - Kate Atkinson was superb.
She’s just suuuuuuuch a good writer.
All the best from Germany. Love your videos.❤ Have a good reading time.😊
Thank you! You too!
Hi Simon - I've recently watched all your Hay Festival interviews for Sky Arts. I really enjoyed them. I thought you were excellent. You came across as so relaxed, genuine and friendly. I'm imagine in reality it was very nerve wracking. I really hope to see you doing something similar in future. Great work. Thanks for all your continued booktube dedication 😃
Awwww thank you so much. I really, really enjoyed filming the show. Totally nerve inducing BUT all the guests were lovely and I am in a very good place with my nervous energy, harnessing it and taking it as a positive. Lol. So lovely to get this comment.
🦊thank you! I have got back into reading this year and you've helped a lot with that. I've been a BK fan since The Bean Trees and I loved loved loved Demon Copperfield. I have read some great books from your recommendations. thanks again.
Awww I’m thrilled to hear I’ve helped in your heading back to reading. That’s sooooo lovely to hear, thank you.
Thank you Simon! I have noted down three let’s see if I can find the time to read them. 🎉
Ooh which three?
@@SavidgeReadsstill trying to get to the Sleeper Porter and trying to finish the Fraud , I started off really enthusiastically 🎉 just realised that I am answering and posting in your May , June and July wrap up 🎉 🎉 instead of September’s / time for bed said Zebedee 😂
Excellent!
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The tangents and waffle is my favourite part though 😅👑 It only highlights your passion for books which is fabulously contagious btw. And vlogs to come sounds brill! Thanks for all you do.
- I like that you include dnf’s. It’s not permanent so we can come back later if we want. But it also just shows that we know what we like and want our time reading spent well. Searching for the high of it and all that 😎
- Always here till the end 📚🦊
Awwww thank you. As always a lovely comment from you Cecilia. There will always be waffle. I can’t help it. I think some of my DNF’s will be permanent, well one definitely will. Hahaha. 🦊
@@SavidgeReads 😍 Oh for sure, some dnf’s are just that, lol
Great to have another video from you Simon, I'm also very excited for autumn and can't wait to see what you read next. Meandering wrap ups and favourite moments sound great to me 📚🦊
Awww thanks Lauren. I cannot wait for autumn it’s all the good vibes 🍂 Here’s to lots of fabulous books in my favourite season.
I've missed your wonderful wrap ups! I'm definitely going to get hold of a copy of that Kate Atkinson book - it sounds amazing. 🦊 I'm looking forward to watching your DNF video because it's something I struggle to do. I will read a book to the bitter end and then feel cross that I wasted my reading time. 🙄
Ooh you have had a big bumper one with this video and I think my next one 'drops' on Sunday. They're like buses it seems none for ages and then two turn up in quick succession.
May:
1. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
2. Sophie’s Pack by Dakiara
3. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
4. The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell
5. The Kingdom by Jess Rothenberg
6. Nona by Stephen King
7. For Owen by Stephen King
8. A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
9. Time and Again by Jack Finney
10. Survivor Type by: Stephen King
11. Uncle Otto’s Truck by: Stephen King
12. Morning Deliveries (Milkman # 1) by: Stephen King
13. Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game (Milkman #2)
14. Gramma by Stephen King
15. The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet by Stephen King
16. The Reach by Stephen King
17. Ashes, Ashes by Jessica Goeken
June;
24. End of the Watch by J.S. Dawes
25. Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome by Anthony Everitt
26. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
27. TSFG&E The Camelot Years: The One True King by Soman Chainani
28. The Bladed Faith by David Dalglish
July:
1. Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
2. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
3. Merchants of Virtue (The Huguenot Connection Book One) by Paul C.R. Monk
4. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
5. Jane Austen in Real Life: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne
6. Charlotte by Helen Moffett🦊
Wow. That’s quite the list.
📚I loved the Poisonwood Bible, liked Tomorrow x 3 and loooooooved Shrines of Gaiety! I very rarely DNF, particularly if I’ve bought it, I’m more likely to with a library copy. I DNFed Demon Copperhead last November and sent it back to the library only to take it back out in May when I saw it was up for the Women’s Prize……..and loved it! A case of right book wrong time? Or ‘it’s not you its me’ literary edition!🦊
Definitely can be a case of right book wrong time, which I always think of as ‘dnfing for now, not forever’ books.
🦊Loving the length of this one, Simon!
I really want to read Cereus Blooms at Night! I love it when you find a gem in a somewhat less hyped book!
It’s such a good book and I do feel I need to go digging for more gems and not always being a magpie and looking at the shiny new or hyped. I’ll definitely be heading to more Mootoo too.
🦊 I'm so enthralled by your voice. 😊 I hope to check out some of these based on how you've described them - thank you!
Awww thank you very much. You’re very kind.
I enjoyed tomorrow etc a lot, going to pass it on to all my friends x
It’s that kind of book!
The longer the better Simon! Fabulous wrap up as always!
I shall prepare my bank balance accordingly! 🤣📚
Hahaha. Ooh it’s a mixed bag… I was going to say this month but this quarter. Ha.
Normal rules don’t apply is already waiting for collection from Waterstones this weekend! Can’t wait! 🦊📚
I must try Kingsolver’s , The Poison Wood Bible again as I had problems getting in to it, twice. However her Demon Copperhead was one of my favorite books this year. The Bee Sting by the way was another favorite 🎉 my latest DNF was The Other Eden such a shame.
Thank you, Simon. 🦊
Pleasure Jane. Will see if The Bee Sting is shortlisted for the Booker and then maybe I shall read it, if I read the shortlist that is. Undecided. Do give the Poisonwood Bible another whirl if you fancy it, it may just not be a book for you, we can't all love the same things.
Looking forward to the Kate Atkinson short stories. Never use to DNF but I do now… too many books too little time! 🦊📖
Hope you enjoy the Atkinson stories when you get to them. I’m becoming more of a fan of DNFing a book the older I get.
Ooo Normal Rules Don’t Apply sounds (and looks) amazing 🦊 thank you for putting that on my radar!
It’s sooooo good, Kate Atkinson’s writing is just my sort of writing.
📖🦊What an epic wrap up! I would love a DNF video. I just DNF’d a book earlier this week and it felt liberating! I often shift to skimming instead of DNF’ing and I don’t know why. You’ve made me want to reread Poisonwood Bible, which is an undertaking! Cannot wait for autumn officially to arrive. Best time of the year!
Autumn is the best of all the seasons and those who agree are my favourite of all the people. Ha. I used to hate DNFing. Now I love it. Liberating is the world, there is the mild worry of FOMO, yet very rarely am I wrong when I DNF… if I’ve skimmed to check. Hahaha.
🦊 loved this
Awww thanks Mia 🦊
📖🦊 loved this wrap up, meant loads of chat about books which is always a good thing! I have ordered the Kate Atkinson and hoping it will be delivered this week, i also have cereus blooms at night on your recommendation so looking forward to getting to those soon. 😊
Hope you enjoy the Kate Atkinson when it gets to you and you get to it. And of course Cereus Blooms, I may have to read another Mootoo book imminently. I loved that book so much.
Great video as always I’ve been having a hard time with the booker books so decided to mood read for abit
I’ve seen a few people going through the same. Seems a bit of a bleak selection. I’ll be intrigued to see what makes the shortlist.
After highlighting the Kate Atkinson short story collection l had to buy. It arrived today and the cover and feel is gorgeous! This will be a Christmas present to someone who will love it. Thanks again for showing it to us!
Ooooh I would say give it to yourself as an early Christmas present to be honest Kirsty. Ha.
🦊🦊🦊great video Simon. I've added some more books to my never-ending TBR.
Hooray! Hope you enjoy them when you get to them 🦊
Love these epic videos! 🦊🦊🦊
Awww thank you 🦊
Loved this video thank you. I am looking forward to Autumn so much, it is a lovely season and I am currently reading Kate Atkinson’s Normal Rules Don’t Apply. Her writing always enchants me and this book is a complete joy📚🦊
Autumns the season I feel most myself. It’s also when I get planning and plotting the most which has started kicking in over the last few days. It’s also book festival season which means travelling about a bit for work which I also love.
Agree on the DNF-ing. Reading isn’t a chore for me so if I’m not feeling it, I’m out .
Same for me… apart from books for work. Hahaha.
📖🦊 Yay🎉 Love a good wrap up.
Aww thank you. Hope you didn’t mind this one was pretty epic. 🦊📚
@@SavidgeReads it was fab 👌
This was fantastic! Have just read Shrines of Gaiety and loved it, really want to read the story collection 🦊
I am reading Shrines of Gaiety at the moment and I am SMITTEN! Definitely recommend the short stories.
🦊📚 that is all the motivation I need to buy the Bee Sting thanks 😂 I love a big old family saga
Hope you enjoy it if you get to it. I haven’t read it or even bought it yet. Ha. Maybe if it’s shortlisted.
Carry on waffling - love it 📕🦊
I don’t think I could stop waffling if I tried. It’s in my DNA or something. 🦊📚
Great video some more books for my tbr 🦊📚📖
Aww thanks Stace, chuffed you enjoyed it.
So many books, so little time. Life’s too short NOT to DNF when needed! 🦊
Hahaha yes. I’ll be talking more about DNF’s soon.
Hi Simon, another great video. I’m glad you want to read more Canadian books. Canada has fabulous authors. Bye MaryAnn
It does. I’ve got some great ‘Canada Reads’ ahead this autumn. 😉
Ooh what a treat of a video. I’ve broken my DNF run of bad luck with Tomorrow x3.
Yeah, it’s a fun and propulsive book that. One I have noted for if I ever do a ‘books to read if you want to get out of a funk’ video.
Death of a Bookseller looks great. Must have a look at that. Golly my mum used to talk about a film about Nellie Bly and she remembered it for years and years. Can't remember what it was called, but hearing about the book reminded me of that. Hmm I looked at tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow and didn't buy it. Perhaps I should have another look. I have a real problem with DNFing anything I need to be tougher, I reckon. I'm envious that you still have Shrines of Gaeity to read - I loved it altogether. Must get the Kate Atkinson short stories. I don't normally buy short story collections but you made that sound really tempting. 🦊📘🦊
If you’re not usually a fan of short stories maybe wait for the paperback or see if your library has it in. Same with Tomorrow x3, though that is out in paperback. It seems 2023 could be my year of short stories as I’ve now got three in my top five of the year so far.
It's not that I'm not a fan of short stories, I help to run a short story website and spend a huge amount of time every day reading them and then setting them up. Mind you a short story by the wonderful Kate Atkinson has got to be a cut above I would have thought. it was short story writing that got me started trying to have things published so really I should be the world's biggest fan! Nowt as funny as folk is there. LOL@@SavidgeReads
Glad you loved Tomorrow x3. I can see Scoff behind you, it’s a great read 🦊 (worryingly searched for a fox emoji and got this fella👨🦳)
Hahahaha. Well maybe he’s a fox in the eyes of some beholders. Or whatever the expression is 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Well my TBR's just grown substantially! I used to consider DNFing a book as a personal failure, but as soon as I got over that my reading life became a lot happier 🦊
I used to have similar thoughts. I’ve let them go now. Well I let them go a while ago!
🦊📓 on another note loving the pictures on instagram of the fox that visits your garden 💜
He’s a treat 🦊
The Franchise Affair was published in 1948 when attitudes about how women should behave were not what they are today ... especially in certain groups / classes ... it was inspired about a 'real life' case that had been in the papers.
I know it’s of it’s time, that doesn’t mean I can condone it though. A problem I have with a few of the classics.
🦊 📚…Simon you make me chuckle….and buy even more books 😳 Thank you for your thoughts and your banter. Currently reading Essex Boys by Dan Jones, cannot put it down… I’ve got a while medieval thing going on atm..god knows why!! 🤗Have a great bank holiday xx
Hooray for chuckling and book buying!!!
Ooh that’s it. I’m off to buy mrs S and tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.
Hahaha. I initially thought you were about to be a copy of Mrs S every day for the next three days. It’s very early here, I blame that. 🤣
Love the long videos (like, it’s really not a big deal for the people who say they hate them? TH-cam holds your spot in your watched history)! 🦊 📚
I think everyone has different preferences on different lengths of videos and that is all good.
Great wrap up vid, as always. I was pleased to see you got on well with I Have Some Questions for You. Do you have any spooky reads planned for autumn? Might I suggest some of Vernon Lee’s psychological supernatural tales? I’m currently bewitched by her writing, and I think more readers should know about her work.
Ooh thanks for the recommend. I haven’t decided about spooky or autumnal books yet, even though I am DESPERATE for Autumn to be here. Ha. I’ve noted the author though in case. I need to get through more of the books I already have on my shelves really. Lol.
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I dont think Ive been interested in a makkai book until this video 👀 also the fact that at the end of life, someone has regretted all the books they hadnt DNF-ed is the most terrifying and sobering thing😂
Hahaha I promise he was in a very good mind about it, he had no other regrets so that was just a small one.
Normal Rules Don't Apply by Kate Atkinson sounds really interesting. 🦊
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Oh you may just be in luck. One is scheduled for Sunday 😉 🦊
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I would recommend Woman 99 by Greer McAllister as a better alternative to Madwoman! I gave it 4/5stars as I recall! Just had to pop that in the comments while I temblor… only 7 minutes in but I’m sure I’ll be back before rhe end😂
Oooh I’ll look that one up, is it about Nellie Bly too? Actually no need to answer that as I’m literally about to look it up now!
I'm thinking about DNF, but it is very difficult for me, especially since I paid for it and it might get better (or maybe not ha). Will we see the Persephone room one day?🦊📚
You may well see the Persephone room in due course maybe when I read some more of the books. Or once I get blogging again next month.
Shame about Madwoman. I read the first chapter as part of a try a chapter thing and thought it was excellent. I haven’t gotten back to it yet, so I don’t know if I’ll have the same reaction as you. Has Louise read it?
I’ve never read Kate Atkinson, but the cover on her new one with the 🐕 and the 🦊 is stunning. It’s a possibility.
Just had a new #1 book for the year with A Little Luck by Claudia Pineiro. It’s fabulous. Clytemnestra was #1 for a long long time, but it has been pushed down to #2.
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Yes Mum has read it. Think she talked about it recently and had similar thoughts… though she finished it. Ha. I recently read one of Claudia Pinerio’s backlist books and thought it was brilliant.
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I have difficulty dnf-ing (still can't quite get my head around the verb structure 🤔) books, and I'm not sure why. I think it's because I'm always hopeful they'll get better. But yes, life is too short. 📖🦊
Ha. Maybe the video I have scheduled on DNFing will help 😉
Thank you! Poisonwood Bible is the only Kingsolver I've liked. Can't understand it!
Can't understand why you liked it or why you didn't like the others?
@@SavidgeReads yes. The writing and plots of her other books seemed mediocre. Poisonwood was so good...well done and provocative.
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🦊I recently listened to the audiobook of the 'Nasty Women' essay collection, which I recommend to anyone interested, but specifically you might enjoy the essay by Kaite Welsh about fashion as a butch lesbian! It was really interesting and one of my favourites in the collection. I think you can also access as a Telegraph article - Kaite does/did a column for them - but I don't know if they're the exact same.
Also joining in the love for Tomorrowx3 - it was maybe my third read of the year back in the heady long-ago days of January but it's still one of my faves and it gives me the fuzzies when I think about it
Tomorrow X3 wants corker and also a surprise hit for me. I really wasn’t sure if I was going to love it… a slightly risky move when you agree to host an event with the author. Hahaha.
I’d love The Pepperpot Diaries but do we need to buy lots of unknown ingredients. I have a great selection of spices but I just wondered x
Erm, it depends what you mean by unknown, which I’m trying to decipher. There’s a wild array of exciting ingredients from all over the world. Some which maybe trickier to get but when that may be the case, for anyone not lucky enough to have an international supermarket near by though they’re delightfully much more commonplace, Andi offers other more readily available alternatives.
@@SavidgeReads thank you simon, I will just have to buy it coz I want it 😂. I’m sure I’d find spices somewhere x
Thank you for that video.
I read The summer without men years ago and I don't remember much. I just found it boring. The other women where far more interesting than the main caracther.
I'm currently reading Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. It's fantastic !
Abigail, I was all about Abigail. If Hustvedt ever writes a whole novel about her I will be first in line. I loved her so much.
I've hardly read anything this year. I only read three books in July, two nonfiction and one novel.
Nothing wrong with that at all. We all read at different paces and in different genres and moods.
*adds cereus blooms at night to TBR
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I stopped reading Mrs S because of that staccato writing. I should have stuck with it. 😊
I dunno. It might just not be to everyone’s taste and that’s ok. We can’t all love the same books or writing styles. I think if it didn’t hook you in straight away it may not have done.
@@SavidgeReads , agreed. I just included this in my latest Reading update...not posted yet...and I do feel there's too little time & so many books I want to read. I'm an early DNFer...but I try not to DNF too too early.
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Please look at “waltz sing Matilda” for an Australian read!!!”
Ooh I went to look it up but there’s a lot of books with that name. Who is the author?
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📖🦊 I’m a Big Barbara Kingsolver fan and I didn’t like The Lacuna either.
Oooooh that’s interesting. There’s a few of us. And yet it won the Women’s Prize. I am going to have another crack at it. Third times the charm, hopefully.
📚📚📚 Regarding DNFing a book, I think it should be seen not as a failure on the reader's part or the writer's part. For whatever reason, it just wasn't the right fit or the right time. Since I read books I own as well as some borrowed from the library, sometimes I'll set aside one of my own books if I've got due dates coming up for library books. Also, not to be too pedantic, but I think that buying, borrowing, or being gifted a book isn't akin to entering into a contract to read it. Full stop. Obviously, there are times when there are professional or academic commitments to read something, but this pertains to everything else in one's reading universe. I wonder if those of us who read physical books feel more pressure or guilt when we DNF, that we might not feel if the item wasn't tangible?
Oooh interesting thoughts here. Lots I agree with. Some of these and more will be up for discussion in another video very, very soon.
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i also enjoyed Open Throat, but you're so right! it's not GAY ENOUGH!!! i feel like a bit of queer baiting was involved here. with the length, some more queer bits could've been written in, easily.
Exactly. I mean don’t get me wrong STUNNING writing. But it’s like an editor said ‘you know a narrator mountain lion isn’t enough. We need an extra hook… make it gay.’ And the marketing team went wild 🦁
I’ve loved all Barbara Kingsolver s books. Have you tried Lacuna on audio?
There’s been an increase of racial hate attacks here. A mosque was vandalised 2 days ago & business’ owned by immigrants attacked. In the political vacuum here, the far right is gaining ground.
My copy of The Sleeping Car Porter, remains unread.
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Looking forward to your DNF video. I’ve given up on books for all sorts of reasons. One book I picked up again this month and made myself finish.
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However I still wonder if it was worth the effort & time.
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I don’t really fare very well with fiction on audio, I feel like I say this a lot. Hahaha. It just doesn’t work for me. Hope you enjoy The Sleeping Car Porter when you get to it.
Just a tiny thing on sharing some of the not so great news that’s going on around you. I think we need to be wary of doing that in a space that’s really just about escaping with books. The world is going mad and sometimes we just need spaces away from that.
Oh I do live a good waffle wang with Simon Savidge :)
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When you say toy are wanging on lol
I watched this 3 different times on 3 different walks & realized I never commented. I highly look forward to these and am content to wait for them! I kinda like getting more at once ! Blahdiggityblah 📖🪱💚
It's ok, you don't have to comment on every video. It is lovely when people do but as someone who is a bit of a lurker on other channels, I understand. Also life gets in the way.
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