September Book Haul | 2023
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- Опубліковано 5 сер 2024
- Whilst there won’t be a September Wrap Up on the channel, here is my September #BookHaul. Some of the books sent by publishers, some from you lovely lot and quite a few I bought myself. I would love to know what you’ve hauled of late and if any of these are on your TBR or might end up on it. #BookTube #Haul
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Books Mentioned…
All Down Darkness Wide by Sean Hewitt
Blackouts by Justin Torres
Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
Family Meal by Bryan Washington
Disobedient Bodies by Emma Dabiri
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
Edge of Here by Kelechi Okafor
England’s Green by Zaffar Kunial
Us by Zaffar Kunial
Fanatic Heart by Thomas Keneally
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
Sydney Bridge Upside Down by David Ballantyne
The Animal in the Room by Meghan Kemp Gee
The Short Story Advent Calendar 2023
The Whale Bone Theatre by Joanna Quinn
Moms by Yeong Shin Ma
The Islands by Dionne Irving
Pretty Baby by Chris Belcher
Drifts by Natasha Burge
Voice of the Fish by Lars Horn
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans
All That’s Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
Currowan by Bronwyn Adcock
Truth & Dare by So Mayer
The Old Haunts by Allan Radcliffe
Other People Manage by Ellen Hawley
Absolutely & Forever by Rose Tremain
Let The Light Poor In by Lemn Sissay
Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue
Me Elsewhere…
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What a great haul! Adding many titles to the TBR list!
Soooo many good books about at the moment.
As an aside: your “set decoration “ is A+++
Thanking you very much indeed!
these hauls always have me excited about so many books!
just added Happiness Falls to by tbr!
Blackouts is interesting! curious to know your thoughts on it!
I shall be getting to Blackouts quite soon I think. Or maybe on the cusp of winter. Maybe.
Will be gobsmacked if you don’t love The Whalebone Theatre I thought the writing was brilliant. It would make really good viewing.
Really good viewing? As in would make a great film?
Yes indeed or possibly a series .
Learned by Heart was so good! Beautiful and heartbreaking.
Really looking forward to it.
Ordered "The Natural Way Of Things" after listening to your praise of Charlotte Wood. She's never been on my radar but I'm looking forward to discovering her now! Great video as always....even if it does increase my TBR stacks yet again 😂🤦🏼
Oooh I hope you enjoy The Natural Way of Things, if enjoy is the right term, when you get to it. I think it’s such a brilliant powerful book.
You inspired me to break down and buy the Short Story Advent Calendar this year. I can’t wait for it to arrive
Hope you enjoy it. I’ve loved it every year.
Say hi to Gk reads at Durham book festival for us! Tell her we want her back on book tube!!! I'm also looking forward to Happiness Falls as I really enjoyed Miracle Creek when I read it a few years ago!
I saw her very briefly at the festival and didn’t get time enough to chat to her but hopefully going to Newcastle for some meetings in the next month or so and am going to pin her down for dinner.
Hi Simon after reading Worsley's biography of Agatha Christie, the new Thurs. Murder Club mystery and The Alperton Angels - all good, I just read and reviewed Booker short-listed Prophet Song - harrowing tale of the toll exacted by a totalitarian state (in s.Ireland) relayed thru Eilish, mother of 4. Paragraphless but brilliant. Cried.
Sounds like some great reads recently.
The short story advent calendar sounds fun. I want to read The Whalebone Theater.
🎉 oh , yes please
I’m sooooo looking forward to the Short Story Adventure Calendar. And The Whalebone Theatre.
Enjoy your reads, it is fine to not like every book a writer has written and it is also fine to wish they had refrained from writing some. 😊
Completely agree.
the best way to finish the weekend📚🥰✨
Awww thank you Tabitha.
Zadie Smith did an event where I work Monday just gone as part of Manchester Literature Festival 🙂
How exciting. She did one in Liverpool but I didn’t feel a big enough fan to go. Let’s see if The Fraud changes that!
I loved All That’s Left Unsaid ❤
I am looking forward to it a lot.
Amazing haul as always. Perfect thing to watch as I’m prepping dinner. I can pretend we’re having a chat while I chop vegetables. I am hoping to read Blackouts in the next few days. It has been shortlisted for the National Book Awards and it sounds wonderful. I have asked for an ARC of the new Carys Davies and am hoping against hope that I get one. So envious of your holding the new Charlotte Wood. I have no idea when that might be published in the US. She really is all that. You’ve made me start looking forward to Nonfiction November already!
Hahaha we are having a chat as you chop vegetables. Hahahaha. I’m very very excited for the Davies and the Wood. I am hoping for events with them next year. Blackouts I also want to get to soon.
I could listen to you all day, Simon, your love for books (and independent book shops) is just joyously infectious 🥰 Ohhh, looking forward to the vlog!! 🍂
Charlotte Wood is someone I've wanted to read since you spoke of your experience with The Natural Way of Things... The wish list for Christmas will be loooong this year, haha.
Awww that’s very kind of you. Sadly no vlog coming. I seem to be in a reading and creative slump. But soon they will. I think I’ve just been in a peak busy and brain busy phase.
@@SavidgeReadsno worries at all. A vlog coming can be at any time - end of the year, new year, doesn’t matter 🥰 Completely understand that you’ve been busier than busy and still is. No pressure at all. And the slump, it’s so natural but obviously not ideal for any book lover. But it happens and it’s okay
I had to pause you after you mentioned Carys Davies. Preorder complete! I was at my local indie yesterday and preordered the new books from Jhumpa Lahiri (Roman Stories) and Jesmyn Ward (Let Us Descend). While I was there, I had a book jump off the shelf into my hands. It’s called Landscapes by Christine Lai from a little indie publisher in Ohio called Two Dollar Radio (motto: books to loud to ignore). I think it was the format that grabbed me first, naked hardback, small footprint, but then I loved the cover and the publisher page inside. It sounds great!
I’m soooooo excited by the Carys Davies. I can’t believe I’ve not read it since it arrived but I keep looking at it and teasing myself. Very excited for the Ward too!
My September looked more like Nonfiction November. I enjoyed two new nonfiction books, both about history:
1. "Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune" by Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe. (about the uberwealthy Astor family in Gilded Age New York.)
2. “Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England’s Kings and Queens” by David Mitchell. (Funny and entertaining as you might expect from this author.)
These both sound like great reads!
I recommend those two books to anyone who has a passion for historical nonfiction. Continuing with nonfiction but musical this time, I also listened to the audiobook, "Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me" by Bernie Taupin, and I recommend it to anyone who is interested in the songwriting partnership of Elton John & Bernie Taupin. @@shawkitty2524
Oooh. I need to get thinking about my non fiction November reads.
Well, I fell into the buzziness and read happiness falls. I can’t wait to see what you think❤
Oooh I’ll get to it over the next month or so.
Thanks for this Simon! Contrary Mary Fairy 😍 I just requested Happiness Falls on Netgalley so fingers crossed!
Oooh hope you get it! The Contrary Mary Fairy has sent magical approval wishes.
Not a very bookish comment but that is a great colour for you😊
Awwww thanks. It’s one of my favourite colours.
I want to move in with y'all and just read all the books.
Hahaha well there is a Savidge abode joining AirBNB… but not this one. Lol
I am a very seasonal reader. I am starting a book that takes place around Halloween 🎃.
I’ll be reading some spooky books soon!
Hi, congratulations on your video! This summer, I read four thriller books, but the one I liked the most was "Motion Detection," which I stumbled upon on Amz. It's a fantastic book. But I don't understand why nobody talks about it. Have you read it? I highly recommend it!
I haven’t even heard of it.
Another great haul. I only just read my first Rose Tremain (Lily) last month found it very atmospheric and sad but in a good way. I tried to get the short story advent calendar last year but they had sold out 🤞can get one this year. I have been listening to Cultish by Amanda Montell which is very wide ranging on different cults of the world and how exercise and beauty products now aspire to being cultish.
I somehow missed Lily and this is JUST the time of year to get to it. Hope you manage to get a Short Story Adventure Calendar this year.
I would enjoy hearing about books you judged, and why some worked for you and others which didn’t. I hope school is going well.
School is going great thank you. Back again today. Trouble with talking about books I’ve judged I’ve realised is that people may assume that my opinions are the whole panels opinions and that wouldn’t be fair. Plus I tend to talk about what works and what doesn’t with books in my wrap ups… when I do them. Hahaha.
I live in a suburb of the Twin Cities, and I'm surprised I haven't heard of Other People Manage, but I have added to my 'want to read' list. I also just picked up The Whalebone Theater recently as well and am looking forward to it.
Hope we both enjoy Other People Manage it when we get to it. I might read The Whalebone Theatre soon.
Can we talk about the statue in the background that's pink? It looks awesome, fun, and quirky. I love it! There's a couple of books that you mentioned that I'm looking forward to reading. I've heard Edge of Here is amazing.
Ha. It’s a bust of an Italian nobleman. Though I think it’s more of a god when I look at it. It’s giving Zeus.
I had never heard of Currowan before and I feel like I should have - unfortunately bushfire season has started early in SE Australia 😢 hopefully it’s not the start of a difficult summer 🤞
Thanks for the recs Simon 😊
I think it’s out in Australia already, though looks a bit different. I feel like I saw it on the Readings website when I was having a mooch.
@@SavidgeReads thanks 😊 - I’ll be having a mooch in the shop soon so I’ll keep my eye out for it 😀
I just picked up Stone yard devotional from the library and Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko. Lots of great Aussie fiction at the moment. Also looking forward to Christos Tsiolkas’ new book. Have you read him?
I have, I have met Christos. I interviewed him for a podcast I used to do that no longer exists, he was looooovely.
@@SavidgeReads ❤️
Ooo I just read The Weekend! My first delve into Charlotte Wood.
Juno Books sounds very cool. I'll be going next time I am back home!
Definitely recommend Juno Books. Hope you enjoyed your first foray into Charlotte Wood.
Definitely recommend Juno Books. Hope you enjoyed your first foray into Charlotte Wood.
Definitely recommend Juno Books. Hope you enjoyed your first foray into Charlotte Wood.
@@SavidgeReads I got quite ranty about it in my wrap up haha. In summary, I did enjoy the writing and reading experience but I didn't really like the 3 protagonists so much 👀 Communicate, people! 😂
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Have you read Study for Obedience? Would love to hear your thoughts on that one .. cheers! 😊
I haven’t but now it’s won the Giller Prize I might!
Hi 👋🏻 I enjoyed seeing the photos of the bookshops 🤓
Where did you get the short story advent calendar please 😉 x (sorry if you said!)
Hingston and Olsen are the people who make and sell the Short Story Advent Calendar. Glad you liked the bookshop pictures. I felt it gave the video a little something extra.
Thanx for info 👍🤓
Hi Simon - where can I find the Short Story Advent Calendar- I can find previous years on eBay but not the one for 2023. Thank you
Hingston and Olsen will sort you out, just head to their website.
What books would you suggest to get someone back into reading?
Wowser that’s a really hard question as everyone has different tastes and interests. So those would influence it.
Where does the short story advent calendar come from? Would really like to give it a go this year.
It’s from Hingston and Olsen, you may well have discovered this via Google or something already. Haha.
@@SavidgeReads thanks 😊 google was failing me today actually
I think you'll like Other People Manage.
I hope so!
You could just do a video called, books I have loved and haven’t spoken about and not say which prize they were up for
I think if I hadn’t said I was thinking of doing one I could have got away with it. I think people might guess now. Hahaha.
Read Happiness Falls last week and it was a different vibe than anything I can recall reading - like I tried a new brand of something and loved it. Totally get what you mean by poets writing books 📕🪱💚🎃
Ooh that sounds exciting that it was so different, that’s something to look forward to!