Loving the denim shirt and I am literally GIDDY with excitement for the launch of your husband's cooking channel! Congratulations on getting the quote in the book. That really is an epic achievement! My copy of Miss Savidge has arrived. Thank you for the video!
I definitely want a detailed account of your history with book clubs. When I left England and moved back to the US the first book club I joined kicked me out 😂
Love the chat, get me, drinking a cider whilst listening! I'm half way through reading 'The Weekend ' and absolutely loving it (thanks for featuring it). Finally, the 'waffle' is what we're here for and that can never be too long!!!! Ps lovely to see you get out and about!
Re book clubs I have left so many book clubs I am not a book club lover. There is always someone who gets on my nerves. Teas become a big thing and often everything else other than the books are discussed. Long ago I belonged to a wonderful bookclub with the most interesting people but sadly it ended . A real visit to a Books shop is the best after these months of book deliveries. Just touching the books is a thrill so enjoy.
Yay for the uk re opening.. I’m going charity shopping with Gemma from read a book gem at the end of the month and we are vlogging it.. Look forward to seeing you get out and about 😊
Prickly pear and denim (good title). The cactus looks like a Tex. Several wrap ups is better than fewer, but take time to do whatever makes life better for you.
So happy to hear you’ll continue doing wrap-ups 😊 There were a lot of wonderful British books I only read because of your wrap-ups. ‘Mini’ or ‘big’ doesn’t matter... just happy to have them in any form 😊
Definitely voting for a video on your reactions to the Women’s Prize longlist BEFORE the shortlist comes out! Very excited for your new radio program and can’t wait to hear more! So glad you’re out and about and shielding is over! Hooray!
Very excited about the Sally Rooney. I have it pre-ordered already. I don’t mind how you wrap up, but I do like hearing the books you read. Looking forward to the Woman’s prize content. I have read 8 of the longlist (dnf’d 2) and hope to get to a couple more before it’s announced but will aim to read all the longlist before the winner. Cant wait for Crime Time, I have lots of thoughts about When noone is watching . Glad you’ve been able to go out and about. I definitely feel more hopefully about the future and I’m looking forward to a cracking summer spending time with all the people I’ve missed. Here’s to vaccination, herd immunity and summer!
I’m really excited for seeing some people again soon. I’ve seen a couple and it’s been lovely. Going out has been amazing. Think today I peaked with bookshops and charity shops being open. It was amazing.
You’re braver than I am! Shielding ended but I am still being extremely careful as I managed to catch a cold!? That’s with wearing a mask and social distancing... I don’t think I’m ready to stop being reclusive.
Well a cold isn’t covid. We have to remember that. Sorry to hear you’ve caught one. I don’t think it’s about being brave or not being brave. It’s about doing what’s right for you, no judgement to either party.
@@SavidgeReads I got called away before I could finish!! I was going to say that I catch things easily but was surprised by this head cold as I’d only been out and briefly into a shop!! When I was teaching September and Xmas were usually spent fighting colds and 🤒 You look great in this video. Keep it up! 💕🌸
I share your love of books and cacti/succulents! If you are ever in Bourne you need to make a trip to Cactus land - actually, make a trip there anyway! It is amazing!!!
I love these unedited videos... sitting down with you and listening to you waffle on.. :) Great to see you so happy and perky. IDK if it's Spring or freedom but it's lovely to watch..
Loving your outfit Simon - you're making me feel summery. Very intrigued by the new Sally Rooney. I imagine the pressure on her with all the hype is intense!
Happy with any wrap ups in any which way you want to do them! I like the suggested idea of doing shorter ones which don’t include the prizes and separate ones for the prizes, such as Women’s, Desmond Elliot, Booker etc. Love this channel and will watch regardless!
This was a lovely way to start my morning ☺️ I vote for Women's Prize reactions before the shortlist. Really enjoying working my way through them all so far, hope you are as well! Yay for shielding ending - things are looking up! 💛
*gulp* Thank you for mentioning hopefulness and pointing out that it can be difficult for some to see people going out and about right now. I'm still in a lockdown/curfew situation, but am hopeful as well. As for the rest, I'm just happy to hear you talk about books and am looking forward to what's coming up :)
I feel for everyone who is still in lockdown. I also understand how it feels to see everyone out and about when you aren’t as logs and lots and lots of people I know and love are in Australia.
@@SavidgeReads I'm in Canada. Some provinces have been affected more than others, I happen to live in the hardest hit, but my mum just got vaccinated yesterday and my age group should be getting it around June. I'm eager to do my part.
Like some others, I really want to hear your thoughts about books you have read - especially those on the lists for awards, though I enjoy all your vlogs. 'Standard Deviation' is great. I'm sure you will love it. Great news about the new Sally Rooney ❤️
Thank you Tricia. I like wrap ups too from other people so this mind block has been a weird one. Hopefully it’s passing. Let’s see if you get a wrap up this week. Ha.
Our first cacti were named Prickly Pete and Spiny Norman but then the cacti addiction grew alongside the plants and there were just too many to name from then onwards 🌵
Read How Much of these Hills is Gold this weekend on your recommendation. Oh my word! Not something I'd ever pick up for myself but loved it!! Thanks. Started Human Remains but had to stop because it got dark and I'm already freaked out 😅
I am sooooooooo pleased you liked How Much of These Hills is Hold. Human Remains is creepy yes. It’ll be interesting to see how Pip reacts to it. She’s quite tough though. Hahaha.
Hello Simon ! I like your book vlogs. I wouldn’t be good in a book club because I like to pick my own books that I like, I don’t have the same book taste that some have. I like to read at my own pace and on my own time. I don’t like to venture outside of romance because that is my favorite genre when it comes to books. I’m also a huge mood reader.
Hi Simon, you asked for opinions about your content. I absolutely love you and your mum together, doing Women's prize reviews and the chat with Maggie O'Farrell. Your book hauls are my least favourite, mainly because I like to hear what you think about a book. I also find it frustrating that you don't talk about the books you have read sometimes or even whether you have read them. I think regular short chats about what you have read would be great. Book club with Melanie Sykes is fabulous and I can't wait to hear the two of you talking about His Dark Vanessa. So for me more reviews, less hauls, more chats with mum and authors, keep on with the book club with Melanie. Cheers xx
Ha. Thank you. I only do two hauls a month. It’s not that many. Also there’s some books I am reading that I can’t talk about that I mentioned. I might do some other wrap ups though like of books pre this channel etc. It’s all about time and where my head is at too though. And recently wrap ups have been making me really anxious, I think due to shielding and how difficult that’s been and some associations, we will see.
@@SavidgeReads At the end of the day it is your channel and you need to just do what suits you best. I'll still be listening because I do like your chats.
Ooh a Women's Prize longlist reaction video before the shortlist is announced would be lovely. I'm making my way through the longlist though I don't think I'll get to all of them before the shortlist. I feel like a lot of booktubers show a lot of hauls but not enough reviews after they've actually read the books. Currently reading Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers.
I think it’ll be a very close thing for me too Janet which is why you may get my mum and my shortlist predictions before the list is announced but maybe not my full thoughts lol.
You’re a tease. Programme for BBC Sounds?? Here in N.Ireland we still don’t have a timetable for reopening of shops etc. We might know on Thursday 15th if Stormont can make a decision.
Did I count right, are you up to three book clubs?! Mad lad! I’ve always been jealous pre booktube of IRL book clubs, none of my friends are bookish or reliable enough to actually read the same book in a month 😂
Melanie and my book club and my old book club are my definites. Ha. Candid book club is an irregular joining if that makes sense. Aside from the one I started, I joined one when I moved to Manchester and one when I moved to Liverpool and it was a fab way to make mates with new bookish folk. There were some pitfalls/characters though.
The glasses, the green, the denim, LO-VING this for you. PLEASE vlog your bookstore joy for us. This sounds amazing. My Dark Vanessa was such a unique reading experience. I had a physical reaction to it. I just wanted to curl up into a ball and didn't want anyone to touch me for hours after reading it! It was so difficult to read but it definitely made me think about things I had never considered before. I LOVE Emezi!! I have only read The Death of Vivek Oji, but it was SO beautiful. It's another book that had my cis-gender straight mind thinking! I can't wait to pick up more from them! I think seeing the women's prize reaction BEFORE would be nice to see how your predictions workout once the shortlist is announced!
I’ve had a triple denim and fluorescents day today. I can’t be stopped hahaha. I filmed a tiny bit in the bookshop. It was a bit chaotic and I was slightly overwhelmed lol. I think Mum and I will do our shortlists before the shortlist. My full longlist thoughts might be on the day or just after. Or something.
I would like to know once you’ve read the long list which you think should be on the short list!! Either before or after the announcement of it I wouldn’t mind too much either way 😊 maybe you could show us your opinions of the Desmond Eliot books after the results have be announced?
Which longlist and shortlist fo you mean? The Desmond of the Women’s? The Women’s mum and I will discuss the longlist to shortlist. I won’t be able to share my thoughts on the Desmond Elliott books, I don’t think it’s fair on the books or authors. With the exception of any I’ve talked about and one which Melanie and I picked for book club before I knew it was longlisted. Hahaha.
Your Cactus!!! Have you read Woodswomen by Anne LeBastille? She was a pioneering woman who made her own log cabin in the New York woods in the 1960s. It's a really interesting read!
I wonder if I will be able to listen to your bbc program program here in Australia,hope so otherwise may have to move to the U.k.....Also my granddaughter is called May.Great vlogg as usual.Thank you very much.
Congratulations on the new show! How exciting! I got my vaccination on Friday. So, my brain is starting to think about when I can come back over the pond to London. I’m unsure at this point if the autumn will make sense. Perhaps winter, or spring, at the latest. Can’t wait! I just picked up the audiobook of Anne Glenconner’s Murder on Mustique. I think I need a break from Unsettled Ground. I like it, but I don’t love it. It’s just rather unbearably slow for me. I’m hoping it will pick up.I did not expect to have this problem given that so many people love this book. This is definitely slowing down my Women’s Prize reading. 😳
Hahaha. That I left as a little reward sneaky peak for those who made it to the end so well done. I think international travel is going to be a little while yet but fingers crossed not to far away. I’ve not read either of the books you’ve mentioned yet.
@@mradcaqbdb I haven’t but as I’m actually judging another prize it’s been on the back burner hahahah mortgage paying comes before fun reading with mum 🤣
If I have finished them all cover to cover by then yes. If not it’ll be the predictions video with me and my mum where we’ve almost always read almost all of them or some of all of them. Ha.
I'll never manage to not write down some titles. Always trying, but failing again. A new book by Akwaeke Emezi? Need this, of course. Edit: Just hopping back to report that I found the video on how to pronounce "Senthuran". Wow, if I had to write it, as a German I would have written "Senderen".
I got kettle confused for a minute 😂 also did you mention that your videos are recorded with your phone!? 😳 they look so profesional camera like! Could i ask what you use to edit? But what I wanted to say really and it’s perfect with the themes of this video is that tomorrow I am getting surgery and I am taking ‘Things in Jars’ which is my first Jess Kid, also a read out of my comfort zone and recommended by you ♥️🙏🏻 So excited!
Simon, your glasses, your top and the denim!🤩 looking fab-u-lous!! 💁🏼♂️🤩 can’t wait to see Chris get his channel started up!
Awwwww thank you! I do like the denim look if I say so myself. Chris channel will be up by May fingers crossed.
LOL I didn't see this before commenting and I think I basically plagiarized your comment! haha
😂😂 that’s ok! I think it’s A-maz-ing!! 🤣
Simon, I'm so happy for you and all the exciting things you have to look forward to. And congrats on the published book blurbs!
Thank you. Lovely of you to say so.
Loving the denim shirt and I am literally GIDDY with excitement for the launch of your husband's cooking channel!
Congratulations on getting the quote in the book. That really is an epic achievement!
My copy of Miss Savidge has arrived.
Thank you for the video!
You’ve a week or three to wait but it will happen Daniel I promise. Getting quoted on a book never gets old. Never.
I definitely want a detailed account of your history with book clubs. When I left England and moved back to the US the first book club I joined kicked me out 😂
I don’t know if I could for fear of offending some people and some book club practices. Hahaha.
Happy belated birthday! Can’t wait for Chris to start his channel! Have a lovely week!
Awwww thank you!
Love the chat, get me, drinking a cider whilst listening! I'm half way through reading 'The Weekend ' and absolutely loving it (thanks for featuring it). Finally, the 'waffle' is what we're here for and that can never be too long!!!! Ps lovely to see you get out and about!
Oooh a cheeky cider. What a wild Sunday Gillian. Hahaha. Brilliant. It’s soooooo nice to be out and about.
Re book clubs I have left so many book clubs I am not a book club lover. There is always someone who gets on my nerves. Teas become a big thing and often everything else other than the books are discussed. Long ago I belonged to a wonderful bookclub with the most interesting people but sadly it ended . A real visit to a Books shop is the best after these months of book deliveries. Just touching the books is a thrill so enjoy.
I went to a bookshop this morning. It was soooooo good to be back out.
Lol these vlogs are SO entertaining! I adore you ❤
Thank you very much. A lovely comment to get!
Yay for the uk re opening.. I’m going charity shopping with Gemma from read a book gem at the end of the month and we are vlogging it.. Look forward to seeing you get out and about 😊
Ooooh that’ll be lovely. I have done a fab charity shop trip, including a bookshop trip too of course, this morning. It was ace.
@@SavidgeReads I’m so happy for you 😊
Your videos are a highlight of my day. And I like the denim shirt + T-shirt combo
Awwww thank you so much Suzannah.
Simon you are such a highlight in my video feed-
Awww thank you so much! That’s lovely to hear.
Prickly pear and denim (good title). The cactus looks like a Tex. Several wrap ups is better than fewer, but take time to do whatever makes life better for you.
Title of my memoirs? Hahaha. Cacti’s names have to begin with C or it goes to chaos.
So happy to hear you’ll continue doing wrap-ups 😊 There were a lot of wonderful British books I only read because of your wrap-ups. ‘Mini’ or ‘big’ doesn’t matter... just happy to have them in any form 😊
I will be indeed. I just haven’t had the right mind set. I think taking time off making reading vlogs will help.
Definitely voting for a video on your reactions to the Women’s Prize longlist BEFORE the shortlist comes out! Very excited for your new radio program and can’t wait to hear more! So glad you’re out and about and shielding is over! Hooray!
Mum and I will probably do our shortlists before I might do my longlist thoughts the day of. Maybe. I need to look at my planner.
I love wrap ups!!!
Me too. On other people’s channels. I’ve just had a bit of a mind block with mine. It’ll come back.
Very excited about the Sally Rooney. I have it pre-ordered already. I don’t mind how you wrap up, but I do like hearing the books you read. Looking forward to the Woman’s prize content. I have read 8 of the longlist (dnf’d 2) and hope to get to a couple more before it’s announced but will aim to read all the longlist before the winner. Cant wait for Crime Time, I have lots of thoughts about When noone is watching .
Glad you’ve been able to go out and about. I definitely feel more hopefully about the future and I’m looking forward to a cracking summer spending time with all the people I’ve missed. Here’s to vaccination, herd immunity and summer!
I’m really excited for seeing some people again soon. I’ve seen a couple and it’s been lovely. Going out has been amazing. Think today I peaked with bookshops and charity shops being open. It was amazing.
You’re braver than I am! Shielding ended but I am still being extremely careful as I managed to catch a cold!? That’s with wearing a mask and social distancing... I don’t think I’m ready to stop being reclusive.
Well a cold isn’t covid. We have to remember that. Sorry to hear you’ve caught one. I don’t think it’s about being brave or not being brave. It’s about doing what’s right for you, no judgement to either party.
@@SavidgeReads I got called away before I could finish!! I was going to say that I catch things easily but was surprised by this head cold as I’d only been out and briefly into a shop!! When I was teaching September and Xmas were usually spent fighting colds and 🤒
You look great in this video. Keep it up! 💕🌸
I share your love of books and cacti/succulents! If you are ever in Bourne you need to make a trip to
Cactus land - actually, make a trip there anyway! It is amazing!!!
Cactus land sounds AMAZING.
Cyril for your cactus? Love the light in this video, great fun as always
Ha. Cyril. That’s a good one. I’ll mull it over. I didn’t love the light when I was filming but it is quite nice lol.
I love these unedited videos... sitting down with you and listening to you waffle on.. :) Great to see you so happy and perky. IDK if it's Spring or freedom but it's lovely to watch..
Ha. I think I’m just in a very good head space at the moment. That’s probably what it is!
Thank You Simon a great book chat, love your chats. Looking fab Denim, T-shirt & glasses are matching your cushions :).
Hahaha. That was an accidental match I promise.
You are looking great Simon I also love that cactus
Thank you Enid.
Loving your outfit Simon - you're making me feel summery. Very intrigued by the new Sally Rooney. I imagine the pressure on her with all the hype is intense!
I think there will be pressure and hype. I am just going to see how I get on with it and try and forget the noise.
Happy with any wrap ups in any which way you want to do them! I like the suggested idea of doing shorter ones which don’t include the prizes and separate ones for the prizes, such as Women’s, Desmond Elliot, Booker etc. Love this channel and will watch regardless!
Awwww thanks. I would like to do some wrap ups rather than no wrap ups is the way I’m feeling.
Oohhh bbc show is super exciting!! Our bookshops here in Scotland open on April 26th and I CANNOT WAIT! 😍
It’s so exciting. I have now been and bookshopped. Woohoo.
This was a lovely way to start my morning ☺️ I vote for Women's Prize reactions before the shortlist. Really enjoying working my way through them all so far, hope you are as well! Yay for shielding ending - things are looking up! 💛
I need to plan my videos. I think it’ll all depend on how close to the announcement I finish all that reading!
@@SavidgeReads haha yes, that’s totally fair! There’s a lot of books in that list!
*gulp* Thank you for mentioning hopefulness and pointing out that it can be difficult for some to see people going out and about right now. I'm still in a lockdown/curfew situation, but am hopeful as well. As for the rest, I'm just happy to hear you talk about books and am looking forward to what's coming up :)
I feel for everyone who is still in lockdown. I also understand how it feels to see everyone out and about when you aren’t as logs and lots and lots of people I know and love are in Australia.
@@SavidgeReads I'm in Canada. Some provinces have been affected more than others, I happen to live in the hardest hit, but my mum just got vaccinated yesterday and my age group should be getting it around June. I'm eager to do my part.
Idea for you wrap up sounds great
Thanks Donna.
Love your outfit!!! I'm having some spiced milk while watching and so happy to see another video.
Awww thank you Janice. Such a lovely comment.
So excited for the women's prize content, as I'm reading I keep wondering what you and your mum are thinking about them all!
Mum and I are thinking that too. Hahaha.
Like some others, I really want to hear your thoughts about books you have read - especially those on the lists for awards, though I enjoy all your vlogs.
'Standard Deviation' is great. I'm sure you will love it. Great news about the new Sally Rooney ❤️
Thank you Tricia. I like wrap ups too from other people so this mind block has been a weird one. Hopefully it’s passing. Let’s see if you get a wrap up this week. Ha.
Oooh Leena Norms. Love her! Looking forward to hearing it!
I love Leena too!
Wow! So much to look forward to! Can't wait!
Yes. Lots to be excited about.
Our first cacti were named Prickly Pete and Spiny Norman but then the cacti addiction grew alongside the plants and there were just too many to name from then onwards 🌵
Hahaha mine all have to begin with C because I’m that basic. Lol
Read How Much of these Hills is Gold this weekend on your recommendation. Oh my word! Not something I'd ever pick up for myself but loved it!! Thanks. Started Human Remains but had to stop because it got dark and I'm already freaked out 😅
I am sooooooooo pleased you liked How Much of These Hills is Hold. Human Remains is creepy yes. It’ll be interesting to see how Pip reacts to it. She’s quite tough though. Hahaha.
Hello Simon ! I like your book vlogs. I wouldn’t be good in a book club because I like to pick my own books that I like, I don’t have the same book taste that some have. I like to read at my own pace and on my own time. I don’t like to venture outside of romance because that is my favorite genre when it comes to books. I’m also a huge mood reader.
Well then I wouldn’t recommend joining a book club 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hi Simon, you asked for opinions about your content. I absolutely love you and your mum together, doing Women's prize reviews and the chat with Maggie O'Farrell. Your book hauls are my least favourite, mainly because I like to hear what you think about a book. I also find it frustrating that you don't talk about the books you have read sometimes or even whether you have read them. I think regular short chats about what you have read would be great. Book club with Melanie Sykes is fabulous and I can't wait to hear the two of you talking about His Dark Vanessa. So for me more reviews, less hauls, more chats with mum and authors, keep on with the book club with Melanie. Cheers xx
Ha. Thank you. I only do two hauls a month. It’s not that many. Also there’s some books I am reading that I can’t talk about that I mentioned. I might do some other wrap ups though like of books pre this channel etc. It’s all about time and where my head is at too though. And recently wrap ups have been making me really anxious, I think due to shielding and how difficult that’s been and some associations, we will see.
@@SavidgeReads At the end of the day it is your channel and you need to just do what suits you best. I'll still be listening because I do like your chats.
Ooh a Women's Prize longlist reaction video before the shortlist is announced would be lovely. I'm making my way through the longlist though I don't think I'll get to all of them before the shortlist. I feel like a lot of booktubers show a lot of hauls but not enough reviews after they've actually read the books. Currently reading Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers.
I think it’ll be a very close thing for me too Janet which is why you may get my mum and my shortlist predictions before the list is announced but maybe not my full thoughts lol.
I needed this on a drab Monday morn 🙌
Awww thanks love.
I love that color Simon! Yay to getting out and about.
It’s been soooooo lovely to be out and about again. Today’s been particularly lovely. Lots of charity shops and a book shop.
You’re a tease. Programme for BBC Sounds?? Here in N.Ireland we still don’t have a timetable for reopening of shops etc. We might know on Thursday 15th if Stormont can make a decision.
Haha. Less a tease and more not allowed to say very much. Hopefully soon. Fingers crossed soon is when you’ll be reopening. As soon as is safe.
Did I count right, are you up to three book clubs?! Mad lad! I’ve always been jealous pre booktube of IRL book clubs, none of my friends are bookish or reliable enough to actually read the same book in a month 😂
Melanie and my book club and my old book club are my definites. Ha. Candid book club is an irregular joining if that makes sense. Aside from the one I started, I joined one when I moved to Manchester and one when I moved to Liverpool and it was a fab way to make mates with new bookish folk. There were some pitfalls/characters though.
SO EXCITED FOR CHRIS CONTENT
I’ll let you all know when his channel is live.
The glasses, the green, the denim, LO-VING this for you. PLEASE vlog your bookstore joy for us. This sounds amazing. My Dark Vanessa was such a unique reading experience. I had a physical reaction to it. I just wanted to curl up into a ball and didn't want anyone to touch me for hours after reading it! It was so difficult to read but it definitely made me think about things I had never considered before. I LOVE Emezi!! I have only read The Death of Vivek Oji, but it was SO beautiful. It's another book that had my cis-gender straight mind thinking! I can't wait to pick up more from them! I think seeing the women's prize reaction BEFORE would be nice to see how your predictions workout once the shortlist is announced!
!!!!! A New show!!!! I can't wait to hear more!
Hopefully I’ll be able to share more soon.
I’ve had a triple denim and fluorescents day today. I can’t be stopped hahaha. I filmed a tiny bit in the bookshop. It was a bit chaotic and I was slightly overwhelmed lol. I think Mum and I will do our shortlists before the shortlist. My full longlist thoughts might be on the day or just after. Or something.
I would like to know once you’ve read the long list which you think should be on the short list!! Either before or after the announcement of it I wouldn’t mind too much either way 😊 maybe you could show us your opinions of the Desmond Eliot books after the results have be announced?
Which longlist and shortlist fo you mean? The Desmond of the Women’s? The Women’s mum and I will discuss the longlist to shortlist. I won’t be able to share my thoughts on the Desmond Elliott books, I don’t think it’s fair on the books or authors. With the exception of any I’ve talked about and one which Melanie and I picked for book club before I knew it was longlisted. Hahaha.
@@SavidgeReads the women’s prize x
Your Cactus!!! Have you read Woodswomen by Anne LeBastille? She was a pioneering woman who made her own log cabin in the New York woods in the 1960s. It's a really interesting read!
I haven’t. I shall look it up though. Thank you.
Btw Akwaeke Emezi has a video on their twitter on how to pronounce Dear Senthuran :) It was different to how I thought it was pronounced.
Oooh I’ll look it up. Thank you!
I wonder if I will be able to listen to your bbc program program here in Australia,hope so otherwise may have to move to the U.k.....Also my granddaughter is called May.Great vlogg as usual.Thank you very much.
It’ll be on BBC sounds which I think can be downloaded everywhere so I’m hoping the answers is yes.
Congratulations on the new show! How exciting!
I got my vaccination on Friday. So, my brain is starting to think about when I can come back over the pond to London. I’m unsure at this point if the autumn will make sense. Perhaps winter, or spring, at the latest. Can’t wait!
I just picked up the audiobook of Anne Glenconner’s Murder on Mustique. I think I need a break from Unsettled Ground. I like it, but I don’t love it. It’s just rather unbearably slow for me. I’m hoping it will pick up.I did not expect to have this problem given that so many people love this book. This is definitely slowing down my Women’s Prize reading. 😳
Hahaha. That I left as a little reward sneaky peak for those who made it to the end so well done. I think international travel is going to be a little while yet but fingers crossed not to far away. I’ve not read either of the books you’ve mentioned yet.
@@SavidgeReads well, now I know you haven’t gotten to ‘F’ yet in your Women’s Prize reading.
@@mradcaqbdb I haven’t but as I’m actually judging another prize it’s been on the back burner hahahah mortgage paying comes before fun reading with mum 🤣
It would be good to see your thoughts on the Longlist the day before it is released I think?
If I have finished them all cover to cover by then yes. If not it’ll be the predictions video with me and my mum where we’ve almost always read almost all of them or some of all of them. Ha.
I’m seven down and onto book eight; loving it, never read a longlist for a prize before and now got the bug! It’s exciting...
I paused the video and did just what you asked. Set the kettle on and made myself a cuppa tea. I took a pic and tagged you on instagram....lol
Hahahahaha. I don’t think I’ve seen it. I’ll double check.
Captioning seems to have improved significantly. I always keep them on. Just thought I'd mention for those who rely on them.
That’s all down to TH-cam. Not me. Glad they are better though.
A live with Leena??? Amazing x
Yes indeed. Friday 30th of April.
Where are your bookcases from? I'm starting to run out of room x
They are Billy’s from IKEA.
I'll never manage to not write down some titles. Always trying, but failing again. A new book by Akwaeke Emezi? Need this, of course.
Edit: Just hopping back to report that I found the video on how to pronounce "Senthuran". Wow, if I had to write it, as a German I would have written "Senderen".
Yes I spotted that video too.
I got kettle confused for a minute 😂 also did you mention that your videos are recorded with your phone!? 😳 they look so profesional camera like! Could i ask what you use to edit?
But what I wanted to say really and it’s perfect with the themes of this video is that tomorrow I am getting surgery and I am taking ‘Things in Jars’ which is my first Jess Kid, also a read out of my comfort zone and recommended by you ♥️🙏🏻 So excited!
All recorded on my iPhone and edited on iMovie. I’m very basic. lol. Good luck with the surgery tomorrow Mariam. I’ll be thinking of you.
@@SavidgeReads thank you so much Simon, that is so sweet ♥️
Like your classes.
Thank you.
It sounds like you have lots of interesting things planned. Is Chris really going to start his own channel?
Why would I tease you all if he wasn’t. That would be cruel.
@@SavidgeReads yay that's exciting. I would like to subscribe to his Channel as well
Ingrid the Cactus!
It has to be a name beginning with C. Lol. It’s just my way/thing. Lol.
@@SavidgeReads Cynthia or Claudia! You should've said!!
@@ametrinemoon I did ;)