I really enjoyed Billy Ray Belcourt's book and I think you would find it an interesting read. Also in Canada the First Peoples as a whole are more commonly referred to as Indigenous and then more specifically First Nations, Métis, or Inuit (and then further divided by Tribe). Indian and Native are terms that are generally no longer used in Canada (but this might be different for the USA). However, I am not Indigenous and how people choose to identify is varied.
I’ve read the Billy Ray Belcourt 😉 the first tennis books were all ones I’d read. I have also read his novel which I enjoyed. Am excited for his short stories next year. Oh and Billy calls himself NDN, so that’s the term I used.
Two of your recs are personal faves of the year for me.. Friendaholic and Love From The Pink Palace. Both beautiful books in completely different ways. I always love Samantha Irby so I vote for that. Happy reading 📚
Ha, I knew I would get recommendations that weren't ones I already owned. Thank you for them though, I am on a mini book buying ban in the lead up to Christmas so I have noted these and may look them up in the new year.
I'm making sure I participate and actually read some non-fiction. I'm reading on my Kindle The Knights: A Captivating Guide to a Powerful Military Order and Their Impact on the Crusades. I also plan to read In Search of Mary Shelley by Fiona Sampson, and London Labour, and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew. I would like to read Richard E. Grant's "A Pocket Full of Happiness" and Illuminated by Melanie Sykes.
I started Disobedient Bodies yesterday! 😃 I’ve also got All the Wide Border and Monsters on my tbr so I think I’ll back those three “recs” - but what a selection though! 🤩 And non-fic on audio is brill imo, I agree that it can really elevate the experience
I think I like nonfiction the most on audio. Though am always very, very picky what I spend my credits on. I need to actually get better at using the library for audiobooks. Silly me.
Scone rhymes with gone. Full disclosure, I'm Canadian, and surrounded by "rhymes with stone" people. My Grandma, first gen Canadian raised by parents from York/Sheffield, rhymed it with gone, therefore so must I! I find it facinating that you are unsure which pronounciation you prefer...usually people are stubbornly one or the other lol. Monsters and Pageboy are my picks 🙂
I think I’m the same, rhymes with gone. It’s just when it’s in front of me the word always confuses me a bit. Hahaha. I do know that I’m cream then jam on a scone though. lol.
Fire Island looks so inviting! And I love Samantha Irby’s books. I’ve dad Quietly Hostile and really enjoyed it. Not all essays hit, but that’s typical when reading essays. Oh but then there’s Stay True. Lyrical, I think. It reads so quickly because I found it immersive.
@@SavidgeReads, same here. I’ve just started a non-fiction with ALOT of propulsion - I mention it in a video that just went up today…it’s called Warhol After Warhol by Richard Dorment. Wow. What an art thriller. It’s about one art collector going up against the “Andy Warhol Authentification Board”. Plot ensues. 😬. Happy New Year!
I’m voting for Monsters, All the Wide Border and We Should Not Be Friends, all of which I’ve read, and Ootlin because I love Jenni Fagan. And if you figure out how to talk about a book in one sentence, please teach me the trick!
I read Leg this past summer and loved it. I hope you will read it because I would like to hear your thoughts on it. So interesting and hilarious at the same time.
Hi 👋🏻 I’ve only read 1 nonfiction book this year 😬 - which I really enjoyed (“I Am, I Am, I Am” by the wonderful Maggie O’Farrell). Of those you’ve read (& I have read the delightfully moving “a pocketful of happiness”) I’d esp like to read Natalie Haynes’ & Elizabeth Day’s & “Love from the Pink Palace”. “Nothing Ever Just Disappears” appeals to me the most I think in your tbr pile. I’m aiming to read this month “The Centre of the Bed” Joan Bakewell’s autobiography (charity shop purchase earlier this year - she’s fabulous imho ☺️) x
I Am, I Am, I Am is brilliant isn't it? I have read Joan Bakewell's fiction but not her memoir, I should at some point, I think she is fabulous. Nothing Ever Just Disappears gets a vote to it.
I discovered I’ve actually read 2 nonfiction books this year - the other was Stanley Tucci’s “Taste” (we went to the event hosted by Kate Mosse (which was so entertaining 👏🏻🤓)
1. Monsters 2. Melanie Sykes' autism diagnosis 3. Pageboy, a fine actor, loved Juno and The Umbrella Factory. Natalie Haynes Goddesses too, all sound interesting. Enjoy your reading, I'm enjoying mine, especially The Seven Kinds of People You Meet in a Bookshop, very fine and funny.
I struggled to keep up but the beauty industry one sounds interesting to me and sounds like the trans walks into a bar already has yours . I primarily read fiction, but I’ve been wanting to read Braiding Sweetgrass for awhile & NF November seems a good time . Blahdiggityblah, appreciate ya 📖🪱💚
There’s a list in the description box if that’s any help. I don’t have Braiding Sweetgrass on the shelves alas, and I’m on a mini book buying ban. lol.
I vote for Monsters. I’m intrigued by what’s inside the cover, but in all honesty my vote is based on that cover. It’s so much better than the cover we have here in the US. 😂
I positively adore your videos. Of the ones you have already read, I'm intrigued by Friendaholic, Love from the PInk Palace and Divine Might. I finally finished Count of Monte Christo (Lordy!) and am going to celebrate shorty september NOW, so I can catch up. But once I've got a few shorties behind me, I'd like to get back to NF (which I love.) Today I started my first shorty, Graham Greene's, The End of the Affair. A nice change of pace from The Count. As for what I'd like you to read from your unread pile, so that I can hear you talk about here is what I would love you to read. Nothing Ever Just Disappears, Under Current, A Trans Man Walks Into a Bar, Fire Island (altho I've heard some less than enthusiastic responses to it--just visit instead), Home for All Seasons. You needn't rush on my account. I would stay with you and listen to all your thoughts at 1.0x.
Ooh I talk about The End of the Affair in a video coming up in a week or so that I filmed last week. Spooky. Thanks for the votes on the ones on my TBR. Interestingly the mixed reviews for Fire Island make this contrary Mary all the more keen to try it out.
I've spent several summers sharing a simple 60's style ranch, grayed from salt spray in The Pines. We buy our overpriced groceries at the Pines Pantry. In the wine shop out back, the barefooted guy teases us with samples of Cotes du Rhone until we weave with our red wagons down the boardwalks toward home. We make lavish dinners of grilled tuna steaks and sauteed broccolini. Our housemate who is a restauranteur and master bartender makes our cocktails to order. At dusk our disco ball spins as a small spotlight shines up at it from behind the barely used woodstove. We play cards raucously while Sade tries in vain to curb our enthusiasm. About 3AM a few wander off while the rest of us snuggle in between our damp sheets to sleep. We wake late and eat pastries or eggs before heading to the gorgeous and vast beach. Our house chijuajuas don't like the beach but the pampered pooches who like it are there in force...along with their handsome humans. All beaches are parades. But the Fire Island parade is better than most. And above it all is the sense of love, freedom, and community. May the outside world never touch it. I feel priveleged to have experienced it. I hope you can find your way there.@@SavidgeReads
I haven’t read any of the books you’re considering so I’ll go off-piste and suggest a new book I’m loving: “Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary” by Nina Stibbe. 60-year-old Nina is on a year-long sabbatical in London, renting a room from author Deborah Moggach. It’s fun to read with lots of quips about fellow authors.
Hahaha, thank you for the recommendation. I am a fan of Nina, though have yet to read a book of hers shame on me. That said, I mentioned in the description that I am on a slight book buying ban and so can only pick from the ones I have in the house, well that TNR specifically.
I'm on a book buying ban, too, so I got my copy free from the library. Fortunately, I got my copy in the nick of time otherwise I'd be on a waiting list.@@SavidgeReads
I vote that if you pick up one of the difficult reads (my vote there is Stay True, his friend dies in a carjacking) that you automatically need to pick up Quietly Hostile in addition as a counterbalance so you can also have some great laughs❤
@@SavidgeReads oooh ok you just mentioned in the video that it was suicide & I wanted to make sure you didn't have it mixed up with something else & had the right TW going in!
How To Survive A Plague by David France is a heartbreaking book about the aids epidemic mostly through the eyes of the NY gay community. It's a bit white and cis and male centered, but it's still essential history imo. Lots of ACT UP history in there too.
I really appreciate that you bring forward queer titles. So many I haven’t heard about, and now have to go look up! 🏳️🌈
Oooh hope you enjoy them when you get to some of them.
Ooo I’ve heard great things about Miss Major Speaks and I’m super intrigued by Voice of the Fish!
Thanks Mia, those have been voted and the votes have been verified, hahaha.
I really enjoyed Billy Ray Belcourt's book and I think you would find it an interesting read. Also in Canada the First Peoples as a whole are more commonly referred to as Indigenous and then more specifically First Nations, Métis, or Inuit (and then further divided by Tribe). Indian and Native are terms that are generally no longer used in Canada (but this might be different for the USA). However, I am not Indigenous and how people choose to identify is varied.
I’ve read the Billy Ray Belcourt 😉 the first tennis books were all ones I’d read. I have also read his novel which I enjoyed. Am excited for his short stories next year. Oh and Billy calls himself NDN, so that’s the term I used.
A Home for All Seasons; Disobedient; We Should Not be Friends; Nothing Ever Just Disappears. You created another enjoyable video. Thank you!!!
A pleasure, thank you for watching it and helping me pick some of my reads for this month.
Two of your recs are personal faves of the year for me.. Friendaholic and Love From The Pink Palace. Both beautiful books in completely different ways.
I always love Samantha Irby so I vote for that. Happy reading 📚
So pleased you loved Friendaholic and Love From The Pink Palace, big fans of both those corking books. Irby is sooo good isn’t she?
Fire Island because 🍑 and Stay True because it is sitting in front of me right now and may be my next read!
Hahaha. Well I do love peaches.
A few NF recommendations. . How to protect bookstores and why (loved this one!) by Danny Caine and Strip Tees by Kate Flannery.
Ha, I knew I would get recommendations that weren't ones I already owned. Thank you for them though, I am on a mini book buying ban in the lead up to Christmas so I have noted these and may look them up in the new year.
I'm making sure I participate and actually read some non-fiction. I'm reading on my Kindle The Knights: A Captivating Guide to a Powerful Military Order and Their Impact on the Crusades. I also plan to read In Search of Mary Shelley by Fiona Sampson, and London Labour, and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew. I would like to read Richard E. Grant's "A Pocket Full of Happiness" and Illuminated by Melanie Sykes.
I recommend both Melanie and Richard's books to you heartily.
I started Disobedient Bodies yesterday! 😃 I’ve also got All the Wide Border and Monsters on my tbr so I think I’ll back those three “recs” - but what a selection though! 🤩 And non-fic on audio is brill imo, I agree that it can really elevate the experience
I think I like nonfiction the most on audio. Though am always very, very picky what I spend my credits on. I need to actually get better at using the library for audiobooks. Silly me.
I live just down the road from Pembridge where A Home for all seasons is set, so really interested to read that!
Ooh, how lovely to be so near!
I loved All Down Darkness. It was raw and honest and beautifully written. Stay true was also very good.
Oooh noted, thank you for the recommendations. Both of those I am intrigued for.
Scone rhymes with gone. Full disclosure, I'm Canadian, and surrounded by "rhymes with stone" people. My Grandma, first gen Canadian raised by parents from York/Sheffield, rhymed it with gone, therefore so must I! I find it facinating that you are unsure which pronounciation you prefer...usually people are stubbornly one or the other lol.
Monsters and Pageboy are my picks 🙂
I think I’m the same, rhymes with gone. It’s just when it’s in front of me the word always confuses me a bit. Hahaha. I do know that I’m cream then jam on a scone though. lol.
Cream then jam vs jam then cream. There's a debate! 😄@@SavidgeReads
Team cream before jam! Lol
You'll get no argument from me about cream before jam. And now I'm craving scones!@@Steffi74ify
So many amazing sounding books!
I’ve been meaning to get to Emma Dabiri for so long.
I’m very excited to get to Natalie Haynes next book 🤩
Hope you enjoy Natalie’s new one when you get to it. And would highly recommend some Dabiri in your life!
Fire Island looks so inviting! And I love Samantha Irby’s books. I’ve dad Quietly Hostile and really enjoyed it. Not all essays hit, but that’s typical when reading essays. Oh but then there’s Stay True. Lyrical, I think. It reads so quickly because I found it immersive.
I haven't made it to any of them but am intent on reading more non fiction in 2024.
@@SavidgeReads, same here. I’ve just started a non-fiction with ALOT of propulsion - I mention it in a video that just went up today…it’s called Warhol After Warhol by Richard Dorment. Wow. What an art thriller. It’s about one art collector going up against the “Andy Warhol Authentification Board”. Plot ensues. 😬. Happy New Year!
I’m voting for Monsters, All the Wide Border and We Should Not Be Friends, all of which I’ve read, and Ootlin because I love Jenni Fagan. And if you figure out how to talk about a book in one sentence, please teach me the trick!
Hahaha. I am DETERMINED that I will manage it one day. ONE DAY! Lol.
Oh please try A Home For All Seasons as Miranda Mills is doing a read along this month! Love you both so much! Xxx
Oooh course she is. I love Miranda too and that book has been high on my periphery since I bought it at Hay on Wye.
I read Leg this past summer and loved it. I hope you will read it because I would like to hear your thoughts on it. So interesting and hilarious at the same time.
I haven't got to it yet... but maybe next year ;)
Hi 👋🏻
I’ve only read 1 nonfiction book this year 😬 - which I really enjoyed (“I Am, I Am, I Am” by the wonderful Maggie O’Farrell).
Of those you’ve read (& I have read the delightfully moving “a pocketful of happiness”) I’d esp like to read Natalie Haynes’ & Elizabeth Day’s & “Love from the Pink Palace”.
“Nothing Ever Just Disappears” appeals to me the most I think in your tbr pile.
I’m aiming to read this month “The Centre of the Bed” Joan Bakewell’s autobiography (charity shop purchase earlier this year - she’s fabulous imho ☺️) x
I Am, I Am, I Am is brilliant isn't it? I have read Joan Bakewell's fiction but not her memoir, I should at some point, I think she is fabulous. Nothing Ever Just Disappears gets a vote to it.
I discovered I’ve actually read 2 nonfiction books this year - the other was Stanley Tucci’s “Taste” (we went to the event hosted by Kate Mosse (which was so entertaining 👏🏻🤓)
1. Monsters 2. Melanie Sykes' autism diagnosis 3. Pageboy, a fine actor, loved Juno and The Umbrella Factory. Natalie Haynes Goddesses too, all sound interesting. Enjoy your reading, I'm enjoying mine, especially The Seven Kinds of People You Meet in a Bookshop, very fine and funny.
I’ve already read Melanie’s book, more than once and once on audio. Ha. But I’ll take that vote for Monsters.
love to see that billy-ray belcourt on this list! (I gave ben that book, so I'm invested ha ha 🤓)
Aha. So I read it because of you by proxy. This is what I love to hear… Book chain reads!
Aha. So I read it because of you by proxy. This is what I love to hear… Book chain reads!
@@SavidgeReads it's the magic of book recommendation! 🖤
My vote is for All Down Darkness Wide!
Thanking you for that vote!
I vote for illuminated
Hahaha. Thats one I’ve already read 😉
I struggled to keep up but the beauty industry one sounds interesting to me and sounds like the trans walks into a bar already has yours .
I primarily read fiction, but I’ve been wanting to read Braiding Sweetgrass for awhile & NF November seems a good time . Blahdiggityblah, appreciate ya 📖🪱💚
Your interest I meant
There’s a list in the description box if that’s any help. I don’t have Braiding Sweetgrass on the shelves alas, and I’m on a mini book buying ban. lol.
I vote for Monsters. I’m intrigued by what’s inside the cover, but in all honesty my vote is based on that cover. It’s so much better than the cover we have here in the US. 😂
Ooh, I don't mind the US one, that said I do think ours is better and normally I am the other way around about it. Ha.
I positively adore your videos.
Of the ones you have already read, I'm intrigued by Friendaholic, Love from the PInk Palace and Divine Might. I finally finished Count of Monte Christo (Lordy!) and am going to celebrate shorty september NOW, so I can catch up. But once I've got a few shorties behind me, I'd like to get back to NF (which I love.) Today I started my first shorty, Graham Greene's, The End of the Affair. A nice change of pace from The Count.
As for what I'd like you to read from your unread pile, so that I can hear you talk about here is what I would love you to read. Nothing Ever Just Disappears, Under Current, A Trans Man Walks Into a Bar, Fire Island (altho I've heard some less than enthusiastic responses to it--just visit instead), Home for All Seasons.
You needn't rush on my account. I would stay with you and listen to all your thoughts at 1.0x.
Ooh I talk about The End of the Affair in a video coming up in a week or so that I filmed last week. Spooky. Thanks for the votes on the ones on my TBR. Interestingly the mixed reviews for Fire Island make this contrary Mary all the more keen to try it out.
I've spent several summers sharing a simple 60's style ranch, grayed from salt spray in The Pines. We buy our overpriced groceries at the Pines Pantry. In the wine shop out back, the barefooted guy teases us with samples of Cotes du Rhone until we weave with our red wagons down the boardwalks toward home. We make lavish dinners of grilled tuna steaks and sauteed broccolini. Our housemate who is a restauranteur and master bartender makes our cocktails to order. At dusk our disco ball spins as a small spotlight shines up at it from behind the barely used woodstove. We play cards raucously while Sade tries in vain to curb our enthusiasm. About 3AM a few wander off while the rest of us snuggle in between our damp sheets to sleep. We wake late and eat pastries or eggs before heading to the gorgeous and vast beach. Our house chijuajuas don't like the beach but the pampered pooches who like it are there in force...along with their handsome humans. All beaches are parades. But the Fire Island parade is better than most. And above it all is the sense of love, freedom, and community. May the outside world never touch it. I feel priveleged to have experienced it. I hope you can find your way there.@@SavidgeReads
Voting for ‘Monsters’ and ‘Men at War’
Thank you for your votes Evie!
I haven’t read any of the books you’re considering so I’ll go off-piste and suggest a new book I’m loving: “Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary” by Nina Stibbe. 60-year-old Nina is on a year-long sabbatical in London, renting a room from author Deborah Moggach. It’s fun to read with lots of quips about fellow authors.
Hahaha, thank you for the recommendation. I am a fan of Nina, though have yet to read a book of hers shame on me. That said, I mentioned in the description that I am on a slight book buying ban and so can only pick from the ones I have in the house, well that TNR specifically.
I'm on a book buying ban, too, so I got my copy free from the library. Fortunately, I got my copy in the nick of time otherwise I'd be on a waiting list.@@SavidgeReads
I vote that if you pick up one of the difficult reads (my vote there is Stay True, his friend dies in a carjacking) that you automatically need to pick up Quietly Hostile in addition as a counterbalance so you can also have some great laughs❤
Ooh slight spoiler on Stay True, I didn't know about the carjacking, eek.
@@SavidgeReads oooh ok you just mentioned in the video that it was suicide & I wanted to make sure you didn't have it mixed up with something else & had the right TW going in!
My vote is for Monsters and Pageboy. Can I say two? I hope so!
Of course you can, I said you could pick 4 hahaha 😜
@@SavidgeReads Here's another 2: Disobedient Bodies and Arrangements in Blue. Have a good reading month!
I vote for Stay true, All the Border wide and A Trans man walks into a gay bar.
🍁🍂 Happy Nonfiction November!
I'll try to read at least 3 books too.
Thank you for your votes, here's to reading some great non fiction books over the next month.
How To Survive A Plague by David France is a heartbreaking book about the aids epidemic mostly through the eyes of the NY gay community. It's a bit white and cis and male centered, but it's still essential history imo. Lots of ACT UP history in there too.
That’s a great book. It won The Green Carnation Prize for LGBTQ writing which I used to organise and manage.
I'll vote Under Current and All the Wide Border. 📗🏞📙🌄
Thanking you!!!