The videos with the two of you together heal my soul. I lost my mother in 2020 and she was my ultimate bookish companion. I cannot describe the warmth and fondness your videos fill me with. You are both so lovely and delightful 🩵 Thank you for sharing 😌

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

So please you enjoy the videos together. We filmed two this weekend and you will be getting one a week as Women's Prize season starts over the next fortnight!

I did not know February was actually named for fevers, I just thought I was doing a stupid pun 😂 Every day is a lesson, thanks Louise! Thanks for giving the prompts a shout out, and thrilled you’re catching up ❤

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

A pleasure, sorry for being so rubbish at replying to this comment though. Not sure why 2024 is being so busy and kicking my butt! You should have said you knew about 'fever' and February the whole time, we would never have known. Hahaha.

I’d love to come across the pond and attend a reading retreat

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

They may happen. There may be a conversation about that very soon.

Ooo wait till you read the first chapter of Cecily. It’s great. The lovely Annie Garthwaite is returning to H&H in July

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

I am sooooooo looking forward to heading to it. I have the second one already, Annie had kindly sent me a lovely parcel of books to Storyhouse, so now have two Cecily's. Ha.

❤ this video, you two made me chuckle, good fun! Keep these up, please 🙏 💯👌🙌🙌

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

We’re seeing each other this week so we might film something fun then.

Yes to reading retreats ❤

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

Fingers crossed!

“I pushed button.” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. Also, good to know about the meaning of February!!

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

She is full of insight is the artist formerly known as my mother, hahahaha.

"Everybody Knows your Mother is a Witch " 😮 oh, how I chortled 😂. I wish everyone shared a relationship with their mum like you have ❤ Sending Louise a 🪭 to waft away all that bookish rudeness..... Oh the Smashing Gorgeousness of a 🤓 retreat hosted by the two of you 🥳

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

I think the reading retreats will be happening, we have been chatting about it over the last few days when mum came for a bit. We may announce something in the spring ;)

Yes to a reading retreat in the new AirBnB!! And the envy is massively real that you are opening up that WP for nonfiction longlist box! Love Colm Toibin and have recently been discussing House of Names because I am reading Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey with a group and the fate of poor Agamemnon comes up quite a lot. I just finished reading Hard by a Great Forest, a debut novel by Leo Vardiashvili. I know very little about the Eastern European history it grapples with and it was pretty dark, I must say. My February Savidge prompt pick is Charlotte by Helen Moffett, which gives us Pride & Prejudice from the perspective of Charlotte Lucas. Fun!

@juliewoan298

4 ай бұрын

Can I reserve for the reading retreat too please with Louise and of course you too Simon!

@janedolman6691

4 ай бұрын

Oh yes please to a reading retreat…although would we end up talking books

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

Fingers crossed some reading retreat announcements may come in the spring! House of Names is great, I must get back to more of Toibin's books. The Vardiashvili is the latest West Kirby Books book of the month, I picked it up on Thursday. He is one of the most handsome authors I have ever seen, I have been asked to host and event with him but think I would just spend the whole time blushing!

@cindyhaiken5644

4 ай бұрын

@@SavidgeReads Ha! I confess I have stared at that author photo a bit myself!

I love when you two collab! I don't read anything like either of you (or a lot of your followers), but I am participating in your prompts (as I did last year). For January's snake on a cover prompt, I read Ninth House and for February's retelling prompt I read Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher (Sleeping Beauty - I stayed away from myths :))

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

I have stayed away from myths too. Mum has in the end I think as well, Savidge's can be fickle readers. Lol. So pleased you are joining in with the prompts, we don't have to love the same books, or read the same ones... just having that love of books brings us all together!

What a great video, really enjoyed, I’ve read Eileen but didn’t get on with it but I think I will enjoy the film 🍿📚

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

Oooh I think you will enjoy the film regardless, I hope you do, it was great!

Great video again, Simon and Louise! Thanks🌷I look forward to the unboxing on Thursday!📚😍

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

Hope you enjoyed the unboxing? You have the fiction predictions coming here Tuesday and the Women's Prize longlist unboxing coming the Tuesday after... we have already filmed them and have soooooo many secrets.

@emmavd

4 ай бұрын

@@SavidgeReads Hi Simon!😊I did enjoy the unboxing very much (you and Louise are a fantastic duo!🥰). I am not much of a non-fiction reader though. I am so looking forward to your WPF predictions and to that unboxing next week!😍📚Listening to booktubers has proved to be a winning strategy in my selection of books from the longlists of the WPF and also the Booker. Last year I read four WPF, three Booker and also three International Booker titles which were perfect for me. Most ended in my top reads for 2023 and not all of them were even shortlisted.

Love your vlogs! I’m going through a tricky time and they really cheer me up 😊 Thank you

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

Awwww I am sorry to hear things haven't been great, hopefully they are picking up. Glad we could cheer you up for a bit!

@katiehallett9501

4 ай бұрын

Thank you ☺️

Oh, I really enjoyed Everyone Knows Your Mother Is A Witch and Cecily. I've 90% of the way through Ours at the moment and I love the writing so much but I did have a big struggle in the middle where it all felt a bit meandering. I do think it's got one of the best opening chapters I've ever read though!

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

I soooooo agree with you on Ours. That makes an appearance in the next vlog which will be later this week as Women's Prize season is almost here and predictions needed predicting, lol.

So enjoyed this video and your reading horizons Simon and Louise😊 I’m presently reading along with the audible, (something new to me and really enjoying that) Polite Society. So many of these excellent authors and their books I want to add to my tbr. I’m learning patience with reading since getting ‘back on board’ last yr 😁 and feel energized for my own reading horizons this new year. As always, love and laugh with you at your ‘banter’ together and look forward to the unboxing of the women’s prize video on Thursday Louise! 📚

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

So pleased you enjoyed this video, hope you enjoyed the Non Fiction unboxing when it went up on Mum's channel. The fiction longest will be being unboxed next week on this channel with mum, it is a corker - oops, I have said too much hahahaha.

Great to see non-fiction on here, Simon. I have read On The Read Hill and Map Addict, but not got to read All The Wide Border, yet. Hopefully seeing him in London this month

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

Oooh hope you enjoy All the Wide Border and his event. Mike is such a lovely, lovely man.

Love these videos 💚

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

Thank you.

Great video, love the banter x

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

Thank you!!!

AirBnB? How exciting, but Women’s Prize unboxing? Oh yes yes yes 🙌

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

You have the fiction longlist unboxing a week on Tuesday, we have already filmed it... so many secrets. hehehe.

I loved The Trees too.

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

I did too, just not as much as mum hahaha.

Fabulous 👏🏻😘 xx Now I have 5 more books I’d like to read 🫣😂

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

Hope you enjoy whichever they were Jane 😀

@janepeacock3704

4 ай бұрын

😘

So love watching the tw of you. So many interesting books here!❤

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

Awww thanks. We’ve got to think of something to film later this week.

Another great vlog plenty to add to my library holds and loads of laughs

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

Glad it brought you lots of laughs and HOORAY for libraries.

I read Julia and loved it for the prompt. Thanks. Great video😢

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

Sooo pleased you are joining in with the prompts and finding fab books for the,m.

You two are my dream team, I could watch you for days, so any collab that you have planned is a bonus. Maybe do a themed video, e.g. what books you both love or a discussion about a book related topic? The cover of "Ours" caught my attention first, and your summary definitely sold it to me. I do get the need equivalent to a "China fix", it often happens to me that I read about a topic in a novel, then look for a non-fiction book with the same topic, sometimes the other way around. I loved the House of Names, which is to my knowledge the only retelling I've ever read. I love all of Toibin's books. His writing is exquisite 👌!

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

We recorded a few more videos this very weekend for the start of Women's Prize season, so hopefully you will enjoy those over the forthcoming weeks.

Question for Louise: How much does one need to know about Greek myth in order to read and enjoy Colm Tobin’s book? (PS, I just love you both. It just makes my day when either of you post a video ❤❤ )

@SavidgeReads

17 күн бұрын

I have asked the artist formerly known as my mother to check comments when she can and respond!

So nice to see you at your Mums place 😊❤

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

It was lovely to be there!

Louise you need to read Brooklyn and then watch the movie. Also Blackwater Lightship

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

I loved both Brooklyn, the book and the film, very excited for the sequel.

I read and loved the Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan in 1991, I remember because a neighbor in that year loaned me the book so it probably came out in the eighties. I have since enjoyed other books by her. I enjoyed Trees too. Fun video, always a pleasure.

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

What a lovely neighbour to loan you a lovely book.

I just read Cecily about a month ago. I loved it.

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

Oooh that has made me all the more intrigued to get to it!

Great video…loved hearing about those reading horizons. Like your mum, I read The Joy Luck club not long after it came out. But think I read The Kitchen God’s Wife first which I loved more. Think the Joy Luck Club was her debut which was then made into a film.

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

Oooh if I like The Joy Luck Club (I started it then got way laid by other books) I shall look up The Kitchen God's Wife!

I just read mongrel and really enjoyed

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

Oooh I am really looking forward to it!

The Joy Luck Club was made into a film in 1993, have either of you seen it. You may have seen it Louise? It was directed by Wayne Wang and stars Tsai Chin, Kieu Chinh, Lisa Lu, France Nuyen, Rosalind Chao, Lauren Tom, Tamlyn Tomita, and Ming-Na Wen. It may be available on streaming or dvd if you're interested. I don't know if it follows the novel accurately or not, though.

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

I haven't seen it, though I may well once I have finished the book - I started it but then went off to read other things hahaha.

Ooh! I picked up a copy of Cecily after seeing the lovely Mrs Harris go on about it last year. Horror that I haven’t gotten to it yet, but I definitely will over the next couple of months. I can’t wait for the fantastic first chapter Kate has promised! I paused the video to take out the audiobook of House of Names at my library. It sounds great! It will be my next audiobook after I finish listening to The Secret Life of Albert Entwhistle by Matt Cain, which I’m loving. Can’t wait to see what the Women’s Prize has in store for us in their inaugural non-fiction longlist! I’ll be watching on Thursday. Oh, and reading retreat at the B&B? Yes! xx

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

That happens to me so often with books, get them in excitement, don't get to them for ages... even though still super duper excited to get to them. Both Women's Prize longlists are soooooo good this year, I can't say more than that though. Reading Retreats may well get announced this spring... maybe!

A reading retreat would be EPIC.

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

If the people want it… we will make it happen.

@sniffingthesheets

4 ай бұрын

@@SavidgeReads the people definitely want it 🙌

Still remember the feeling I had when reading The Joy Luck Club over a decade ago, that "this is a good book and it's just getting better and better".

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

Ooooh, I stopped reading it but am heading back, so this was lovely to hear.

What I really liked about Everyone Knows Your Mother Is A Witch is how it realistically showed how someone is accused of such a thing - like there was no mysterious or supernatural or spooky vibes as most books on the topic I’ve read have had . Blahdiggityblah

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

I am looking forward to getting to it in due course, probably after Women's Prize season.

You would like the Joy luck movie too. And there is a recent bio documentary about the author. Thanks for your great videos!!!

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

Oooh I may watch it once I have read the book, I started the book and got waylaid by work reading, oops.

Have you read Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati? It is just amazing.

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

I have. I had the pleasure of hosting her event in Liverpool and both she and her book are fabulous.

Youse two have such a fun dynamic. Love all the tangents and enthusiasm, you have very charming energy. - Very much enjoyed (innocently though) the sex and balls conversation, thank you for keeping it in 😜😍

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

Hahahaha *innocently* hahahaha.

@cecilialau_

4 ай бұрын

@@SavidgeReads 😂

You two are looking more like siblings these days!

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

Hahahaha well we aren't that far apart in age, the difference seems less and less as we get older.

Alert the World Health Organization - books can cause STIs.🤣

@SavidgeReads

4 ай бұрын

Hahahahaha, imagine!