Great video, lovely conversation: I really enjoy these videos with the two of you. Also, can we just appreciate how great Louise looks in this? Comfortable, stylish, and relaxed. I'm living for it.
I love listening to you both chatting. In fact I’m working from home today and I can’t get back to work until I’ve watched until the end. I’ve just joined storygraph. As I’ve said before a big YES to the Booker shortlist read would be great. The Savidges take over the Booker!! Love it! I didn’t read the whole womens prize shortlist other than Great Circle and Elifs wonderful book. Will be buying the winners book. As for Savidge prompts will look it up on storygraph.
Hahaha. I am delighted that we were a work distraction. Apologies to your boss and your workload. I think Savidge’s Take On The Booker will probably be happening.
Louise’s comment on Ozeki’s speech is spot on. I totally agree. Her speech was brilliant and makes me want my daughter to go to Smith College or consider a university that is all women. I’ve never thought about that before but Ozeki made such a great pitch for it. And yes to Savage Take on Booker!
I consistently love your videos and even more so with your Mum! I always trust your instinct! Thank you for the time and effort you put in to your work Simon. It genuinely makes me happy when I see a new video of yours pop up. ☺️
Bless your voice sound so gravelly, fingers crossed it’s not a harbinger of a sore throat 💕 I’m having a reasonable reading month, loved ‘The Golden Door’ and I’m so pleased I did because sometimes if you love the first book in a series’ The Wolf Den’ if the next is mega anticipated I dread being disappointed and I wasn’t 😊. Love the two of you having a relaxing chat it’s a bit like eavesdropping on someone’s conversation when you’re having a coffee 💕
A combo of too much talking the night before and horrific hayfever. Ugh. It’s back to normal almost now. I need to get mum and myself a copy of The Golden Door. I’m slightly surprised it’s not turned up… without sounding demanding or diva like. Hahaha. Eavesdropping is just what we want it to feel like.
Always a treat to see the two of you together and I was eager for your thoughts and reflections on the Women’s Prize. I thought the Ozeki win was a big surprise but I loved her speech. I have turned my attention to the Booker since I was a bit let down by this year’s Women’s Prize in general and would love for the two of you to take that on as well and do the Savidge Take! My reading year has definitely been mixed but I have the new Benjamin Myers novel for this weekend and I am optimistic.
Ruth’s speech was amazing. She deserved the win for that alone. I think this just wasn’t quite my Women’s Prize year but that’s fine and no bad thing. You have to have a not so good one to appreciate the really good ones. Hope you enjoy the new Myers. I’m saving it for a rainy day, which we could really do with here. Ha.
I'm still doing the Savidge prompts! I've got 4 left on Simon's list and 6 on Louise's but I gave myself permission to bounce around & not go in order/by month so it could be a little more by whim😁
Simon, I’m with you, I get grumpy at the book too and life for getting in the way of my reading! I’ve only managed to read 3 books in the last 2 months and I don’t feel right!
Always a treat to see you two together ❤️ I am doing well with my Savidge Prompts and should be up to date by the end of the month. I enjoy having a couple of prompts a month, so you should do it next year for us mere mortals. Savidge takes on the Booker sounds fab but leave that up to you & the books that are on there .I was grumpy with the list last year and didn't read much of it . What Louise said about reading books in the 80's vibed with me. I had a similar experience reading 'Robber Bride' although that is early 90's and found the reflection of society interesting. I was in my 20's then too.
Yes to Savidge Take on the Booker. Not to brag (well, maybe a little) I'm doing pretty well on the Savidge Prompts. I have 1 left in each. ☺ It made me realize that prompts feel like the "recommended reading" from school, so it makes it feel like a task. So I will probably not do that again next year.
Brag all you like. Mum and I are thrilled so many of you are joining in, we just feel slightly shambolic for not doing so ourselves. But we will catch up. I like a prompt. I just had too many prompts on the go. So that’s gonna change.
Please take on the Booker. It has been so lovely doing the Women’s Prize with you and I do love joining you in reading. It makes me so happy to see you two
I am delighted Ruth Ozeki won it was the one that spoke to me the most. But am surprised Great Circle didn't take it as it was a really accomplished piece of work. But frankly they all deserve a prize. Might try reading the Booker shortlist myself this year
As someone who has judged prizes I know only too well a) how hard it is b) that you’ll never please everyone. Reading tastes are so differing. But highlighting fabulous books is brilliant fun.
The Book of Form and Emptiness was my favourite from the shortlist and the one I wanted to win, so I am so happy it did! As you say, I am going to tackle her back list now. And yes please to Savidges taking on Bookers!
Still doing the prompts and really liking it! But I gave it my own spin because I've become chronically ill: I'm not reading in order and I'm only picking the prompts I'm interested in. Keeping track of everything using the lists on Storygraph. 😄
Not read the book that won but reading several of the others. currently reading sorrow and bliss. I have to admit my favourite has been The island of missing trees..
Oh, I had forgotten about the prompts :) Thank you both for the video. I am reading “The Library Book” by Susan Orlean. It is wonderful. Beautifully written. Definitely up for vintage fiction, crave for the older fiction library books of my youth ;). Booker ? Yes please.
If you do the Booker shortlist I will too 😂 I’m working through a 50 book prompt list with a friend…I’ve 26 books to go. I managed to get some of the women’s prize list to fit the prompts so that helped 😉
Oh my. First your mom talks about wanting to read Ecuadorian books because she's going there on holiday which makes me realise I want to do the same with the country I am going to on holiday. And just a bit later you ask for recommendations for Slovenia WHICH IS THAT COUNTRY. Love it when things come together. Delightful chat you two had thanks for having us listen in :)
Hi guys! I am coming from Slovenia🙋♀️ It is so hard to recommend Slovene books, first of wall they usually translate into English high literary fiction with heavy themes such as WWII, but saying that… one of the bestsellers which was also adapted to TV series is Lake by Tadej Golob, it is a crime novel set in one of the most cinematic areas in Slovenia, lake Bohinj. Other book that depicts very good the transition from Yugoslavia to Slovenia, and it is also funny, is Southern Scum Go Home by Goran Vojnovic and we also have some American authors who live in Slovenia and are writing about Slovene stereotypes, such as Forbidden Bread by Erica Johnson Debeljak and Slovenology by Noah Charney.
I was surprised at Ruth Ozeki winning the Womens' Prize, but I wasn't unhappy. I'm going to give The Book of Form and Emptiness another read to see what I get out of it a second time. I'm otherwise reading some of the Miles Franklin longlist (loving some of them!) and I will probably work my way through the Booker longlist as well. Those are my three prize lists I try to read.
Like you, surprised not unhappy. It was my fourth favourite which people seem to think is a diss but honestly isn’t. I finished it and enjoyed it unlike two of the others.
Ecuador: I very much recommend Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda, translated by Sarah Booker, although it's currently only out in the US (Coffee House Press). I think a UK edition is coming in the autumn. Also Poso Wells by Gabriela Alemán and Cockfight by Maria Fernanda Ampuero, but big content warnings for the latter, which is a very violent collection of short stories.
I'm trying to read the world and, therefore, have tracked down a book by an Ecuadorian author. Although I have not read it yet, I thought I should tell you about it because books from Ecuador can be hard to come by. The book is This World Does Not Belong to Us by Natalia García Freire. It was published in English last month. Good luck.
For Slovenian books, I'd rec anything by Goran Vojnović, especially The Fig Tree. And if you find the summary interesting, Mojca Kumerdej's The Harvest of Kronos. I read these in Slovene though, so I can't really vouch for the translations.
See, I see chunksters and immediately think where was the editor. I just don’t have the patience or attention span that I used to have. And I (personal opinion) find a 200 page, multi-generational book like Red At The Bone much more impressive than a 700 page odyssey. We’re all different. Just bought Nightcrawling today, which is the book by Ruth Ozeki’s student that she called out in her speech yesterday.
I saw Nightcrawling in Foyles and was tempted but held off. Maybe the paperback. We shall see. I can see your point on books like Red at the Bone but also can see the joys of getting lost in something huge. I’m open to all sizes I guess. Hahaha.
A recommendation for a book set in Slovenia: I Saw Her That Night by Drago Jancar, trans by Michael Biggins. I read it a few years ago after meeting someone from Slovenia & asking her for book recs. I really enjoyed it. It’s fiction but based on a true story.
Currently I am being a secret savidge on storygraph as I have to read things for secret project and I’m such a public reader everywhere else but possibly in 2023.
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Can we talk about how COOL Louise looks here! As always Simon, phenomenal jumper on your part 🙌🏼🙌🏼
Thank you from both me and mum. Ha. Double compliment delight.
A million times YES to the Savidge Take on the Booker. I'd definitely read along with you both!
Hahahaha wow a million times, how could we refuse!?!
Great video, lovely conversation: I really enjoy these videos with the two of you. Also, can we just appreciate how great Louise looks in this? Comfortable, stylish, and relaxed. I'm living for it.
I chose that outfit for her. I thought she looked fab. She wasn’t sure at first.
@@SavidgeReads She looked great! Nice choice on your part.
I love listening to you both chatting. In fact I’m working from home today and I can’t get back to work until I’ve watched until the end. I’ve just joined storygraph. As I’ve said before a big YES to the Booker shortlist read would be great. The Savidges take over the Booker!! Love it! I didn’t read the whole womens prize shortlist other than Great Circle and Elifs wonderful book. Will be buying the winners book. As for Savidge prompts will look it up on storygraph.
Hahaha. I am delighted that we were a work distraction. Apologies to your boss and your workload. I think Savidge’s Take On The Booker will probably be happening.
I love when you do joint videos, it's very chilled and relaxing. Just got my copy of the island of missing trees and very excited.
Oooh I hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
Louise’s comment on Ozeki’s speech is spot on. I totally agree. Her speech was brilliant and makes me want my daughter to go to Smith College or consider a university that is all women. I’ve never thought about that before but Ozeki made such a great pitch for it. And yes to Savage Take on Booker!
Hahaha. You mean Savidge Take on the Booker. Lol. Ruth’s speech was amazing. Really powerful stuff.
I consistently love your videos and even more so with your Mum! I always trust your instinct! Thank you for the time and effort you put in to your work Simon. It genuinely makes me happy when I see a new video of yours pop up. ☺️
Awwww thank you so much Hope, that so kind of you to say and lovely to hear.
Yes please ! Booker shortlist love it 😊
It could well happen.
Oooh I'm here for the Savidge Summer of Stonkers! I think I might tackle the Cazalets this summer.
What was the Chocolate family saga Simon mentioned? 😍
@@janeharpur535 Think it was Eighth Life by Nino Haratischwili
@@thebritishbookworm Thanks Rachel, have read that one. Certainly a stonker, but we'll worth it.
I think I’ll just do the first one and see how I go. Ha.
Bless your voice sound so gravelly, fingers crossed it’s not a harbinger of a sore throat 💕 I’m having a reasonable reading month, loved ‘The Golden Door’ and I’m so pleased I did because sometimes if you love the first book in a series’ The Wolf Den’ if the next is mega anticipated I dread being disappointed and I wasn’t 😊. Love the two of you having a relaxing chat it’s a bit like eavesdropping on someone’s conversation when you’re having a coffee 💕
A combo of too much talking the night before and horrific hayfever. Ugh. It’s back to normal almost now. I need to get mum and myself a copy of The Golden Door. I’m slightly surprised it’s not turned up… without sounding demanding or diva like. Hahaha. Eavesdropping is just what we want it to feel like.
Yes to reading the Booker Prize shortlist!!!🎉
Fingers crossed.
Yes to the Booker Shortlist! Always love videos with you & your mum.
They seem to be quite popular with lots of you. So maybe this could be the autumn fix. Hahaha.
Always a treat to see the two of you together and I was eager for your thoughts and reflections on the Women’s Prize. I thought the Ozeki win was a big surprise but I loved her speech. I have turned my attention to the Booker since I was a bit let down by this year’s Women’s Prize in general and would love for the two of you to take that on as well and do the Savidge Take! My reading year has definitely been mixed but I have the new Benjamin Myers novel for this weekend and I am optimistic.
Ruth’s speech was amazing. She deserved the win for that alone. I think this just wasn’t quite my Women’s Prize year but that’s fine and no bad thing. You have to have a not so good one to appreciate the really good ones. Hope you enjoy the new Myers. I’m saving it for a rainy day, which we could really do with here. Ha.
Always lovely to listen to you both having a chat about bookish things.
Thank you!
yes to you guys reading the booker shortlist!! i had a great time doing it last year
I think it could be on the cards. Intrigued to see the longlist next month.
Thanks for the heads up on StoryGraph. I had no idea. Love you two together!
It’s such a great website. Hope you enjoy it!
I'm still doing the Savidge prompts! I've got 4 left on Simon's list and 6 on Louise's but I gave myself permission to bounce around & not go in order/by month so it could be a little more by whim😁
Whim is so the way forward so totally here for the bouncing around Kara.
Whim is so the way forward so totally here for the bouncing around Kara.
Yes, those were some loud pants. Savidge take on the Booker, sounds a winner. Enjoyed it very much.
Glad you like the idea of Savidge Take On The Booker. Loud pants? Who? Where?
The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina takes place partially in Ecuador. I'm really enjoying it, it has a bit of magical realism and a dual timeline...
Ooooh thanks Amanda. I shall let mum know.
yes, please take on the Booker short list!!! I will be 😃
I think it’s *probably* going to happen.
The general in hid labyrinth by Marquez is set in Ecuador as is The amnesia clinic by James Scudamore.
I’ll pass this onto Mum. Thank you Enid.
Simon, I’m with you, I get grumpy at the book too and life for getting in the way of my reading! I’ve only managed to read 3 books in the last 2 months and I don’t feel right!
Mum and I have talked about this a lot since. I think it was a breakthrough for her. Ha.
Always a treat to see you two together ❤️ I am doing well with my Savidge Prompts and should be up to date by the end of the month. I enjoy having a couple of prompts a month, so you should do it next year for us mere mortals.
Savidge takes on the Booker sounds fab but leave that up to you & the books that are on there .I was grumpy with the list last year and didn't read much of it .
What Louise said about reading books in the 80's vibed with me. I had a similar experience reading 'Robber Bride' although that is early 90's and found the reflection of society interesting. I was in my 20's then too.
yes, would love to read the Booker short list with you two.
May well be doable this autumn.
Great idea to do the Booker prize. The fifth child is so emotional ans beautifully written. 👶
I think I may have to read it too at some point.
Yes to Savidge Take on the Booker.
Not to brag (well, maybe a little) I'm doing pretty well on the Savidge Prompts. I have 1 left in each. ☺
It made me realize that prompts feel like the "recommended reading" from school, so it makes it feel like a task. So I will probably not do that again next year.
Brag all you like. Mum and I are thrilled so many of you are joining in, we just feel slightly shambolic for not doing so ourselves. But we will catch up. I like a prompt. I just had too many prompts on the go. So that’s gonna change.
I’d love to watch, “ The Savidge take on the Booker”. Great video.
Hahaha. Your wish may well come true.
Please take on the Booker. It has been so lovely doing the Women’s Prize with you and I do love joining you in reading. It makes me so happy to see you two
Awwwww how could we refuse a lovely request like this?
I am delighted Ruth Ozeki won it was the one that spoke to me the most. But am surprised Great Circle didn't take it as it was a really accomplished piece of work. But frankly they all deserve a prize. Might try reading the Booker shortlist myself this year
As someone who has judged prizes I know only too well a) how hard it is b) that you’ll never please everyone. Reading tastes are so differing. But highlighting fabulous books is brilliant fun.
yes please read the booker shortlist together!
It’s looking like we might!
The Book of Form and Emptiness was my favourite from the shortlist and the one I wanted to win, so I am so happy it did! As you say, I am going to tackle her back list now. And yes please to Savidges taking on Bookers!
I am very happy you’re happy with the winner.
Still doing the prompts and really liking it! But I gave it my own spin because I've become chronically ill: I'm not reading in order and I'm only picking the prompts I'm interested in. Keeping track of everything using the lists on Storygraph. 😄
That sounds perfect to me. It’s meant to be fun and bring joy. So I’m hear for it. Also sending empathy from one chronically ill person to another.
Not read the book that won but reading several of the others. currently reading sorrow and bliss. I have to admit my favourite has been The island of missing trees..
The Shafak had my heard I can’t lie.
Booker sounds very Good! I would love to see and hear you talk about another book prize. 👍🏻👍🏻
Hahaha only the shortlist though. Couldn’t do the longlist.
I would love to see you two take on the Booker!
You could well do! Well, the shortlist anyway.
Oh, I had forgotten about the prompts :)
Thank you both for the video.
I am reading “The Library Book” by Susan Orlean. It is wonderful. Beautifully written. Definitely up for vintage fiction, crave for the older fiction library books of my youth ;).
Booker ? Yes please.
I think Booker content may well happen. We shall see. No worries about forgetting the prompts. Mum had. Hahaha.
@@SavidgeReads no as you say no worries, hilarious 😂 I am really loving this library book 📕 book could be a good one for reading slumps.
If you do the Booker shortlist I will too 😂 I’m working through a 50 book prompt list with a friend…I’ve 26 books to go. I managed to get some of the women’s prize list to fit the prompts so that helped 😉
Wow. 50 prompts. That is A LOT! Good for you!
Oh my. First your mom talks about wanting to read Ecuadorian books because she's going there on holiday which makes me realise I want to do the same with the country I am going to on holiday. And just a bit later you ask for recommendations for Slovenia WHICH IS THAT COUNTRY. Love it when things come together. Delightful chat you two had thanks for having us listen in :)
Hi guys! I am coming from Slovenia🙋♀️ It is so hard to recommend Slovene books, first of wall they usually translate into English high literary fiction with heavy themes such as WWII, but saying that… one of the bestsellers which was also adapted to TV series is Lake by Tadej Golob, it is a crime novel set in one of the most cinematic areas in Slovenia, lake Bohinj. Other book that depicts very good the transition from Yugoslavia to Slovenia, and it is also funny, is Southern Scum Go Home by Goran Vojnovic and we also have some American authors who live in Slovenia and are writing about Slovene stereotypes, such as Forbidden Bread by Erica Johnson Debeljak and Slovenology by Noah Charney.
Now that is spooky Laurane!!!!
Thank you so much for these recommendations. I shall look them all up!
I was surprised at Ruth Ozeki winning the Womens' Prize, but I wasn't unhappy. I'm going to give The Book of Form and Emptiness another read to see what I get out of it a second time. I'm otherwise reading some of the Miles Franklin longlist (loving some of them!) and I will probably work my way through the Booker longlist as well. Those are my three prize lists I try to read.
Like you, surprised not unhappy. It was my fourth favourite which people seem to think is a diss but honestly isn’t. I finished it and enjoyed it unlike two of the others.
Thanks, Simon and Louise!🌷and… Savidges, take on the Booker!!! 😉… please!😊📚🌷
Hahahaha. I think it could well happen.
@@SavidgeReads 😊😊😊
Ecuador: I very much recommend Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda, translated by Sarah Booker, although it's currently only out in the US (Coffee House Press). I think a UK edition is coming in the autumn. Also Poso Wells by Gabriela Alemán and Cockfight by Maria Fernanda Ampuero, but big content warnings for the latter, which is a very violent collection of short stories.
Ooooh thank you. Sadly mum isn’t going anymore, I’ll leave her to update people if she chooses too, but she might be next year.
Hi Simon, your mom is lovely!
She is indeed.
I also need a book from Slovenia so let us know what you find. For Ecuador, I'm going to read Jawbone.
Some of the other comments on this post will help you no doubt 😉
There is a book of short stories called Law of Desire by Slovenian author Andrej Blatnik. I haven't read them yet but they sound good.
Oooh thank you for the recommendation Fiona.
🦖You know I love your "bookosaurus"!!!
Hahaha. He is fabulous 🦖
After To Paradise and Great Circle, I need some non-chunksters
I can fully understand that. Hahaha.
I'm trying to read the world and, therefore, have tracked down a book by an Ecuadorian author. Although I have not read it yet, I thought I should tell you about it because books from Ecuador can be hard to come by. The book is This World Does Not Belong to Us by Natalia García Freire. It was published in English last month. Good luck.
Thank you Rebecca. I shall pass that on to mum.
Would love for you to both read the booker!
It’s looking more and more likely 😉
I’m so down for booker shortlist :-)
We might well be too 😉
For Slovenian books, I'd rec anything by Goran Vojnović, especially The Fig Tree. And if you find the summary interesting, Mojca Kumerdej's The Harvest of Kronos. I read these in Slovene though, so I can't really vouch for the translations.
Thank you for the recommendations. After my love of The Island of Missing Trees, a book called The Fig Tree sounds perfect.
Booker? Yes please 😊
We shall see what we can do 😉
I just finished a short story collection which is very evocative of place set mostly in Ecuador. Family Album by Gabriela Alemán. I can recommend it.
Oooh thanks for the recommendation Judy. I’ll pass that on to mum.
See, I see chunksters and immediately think where was the editor. I just don’t have the patience or attention span that I used to have. And I (personal opinion) find a 200 page, multi-generational book like Red At The Bone much more impressive than a 700 page odyssey. We’re all different.
Just bought Nightcrawling today, which is the book by Ruth Ozeki’s student that she called out in her speech yesterday.
I saw Nightcrawling in Foyles and was tempted but held off. Maybe the paperback. We shall see. I can see your point on books like Red at the Bone but also can see the joys of getting lost in something huge. I’m open to all sizes I guess. Hahaha.
A recommendation for a book set in Slovenia: I Saw Her That Night by Drago Jancar, trans by Michael Biggins. I read it a few years ago after meeting someone from Slovenia & asking her for book recs. I really enjoyed it. It’s fiction but based on a true story.
Oooooh thank you for the recommendation.
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Savidging the Booker?
Hahaha. That sounds slightly ominous.
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I think Louise is aging backwards! Thank you for another great video.
She possibly is. I’m hoping those genes kick in with me soon.
Fab chat !
Thank you!
@@SavidgeReads it was very relaxing just listening to you both ;)
Aww your mum seems so lovely I would love her as my mum! Can we follow you on Story graph just signed up x
Currently I am being a secret savidge on storygraph as I have to read things for secret project and I’m such a public reader everywhere else but possibly in 2023.
Your Mum looks like she could be your sister lol
We get that a lot 😉