July Reading Wrap Up 2023

[@Novaturient_Liv]

I love how you incorporate the quality of writing and editing into your reviews. It adds a level of review that I wish more people included, as a poorly edited book ruins my own reading experience.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Glad you enjoy it! 🧡🧡🧡📚📚📚🙏🙏🙏

[@Penny-ws4mz]

Hope you're having a good time on your adventures. I recently read Loot by Tania James and really enjoyed it, both the story itself and how it was told. Would definitely like to read more by James and The Tusk that Did the Damage sounds like a good choice 😊🐘

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

I must hunt Loot down! Glad it was good 👍

[@chiming_]

A few books sound intriguing and I have just downloaded a few samples.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

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[@marcellaandherbooks8733]

I'm going to add Thread Ripper to my tbr, that sounds like something I might enjoy! I dnfed Kaikeyi, there was just something in the writing I didn't gel with. Like you said, it probably needed a bit more editing, it just felt a bit laboured to me.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

With hindsight, I think the style was maybe a little wooden. 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🧡🧡🧡

[@jackiesliterarycorner]

I've been wanting to check out Kaikeyi. For July: 1. Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish 2. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 3. Merchants of Virtue (The Huguenot Connection Book One) by Paul C.R. Monk 4. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe 5. Jane Austen in Real Life: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne 6. Charlotte by Helen Moffett My favorites were Weight of Ink and Charlotte.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Some lovely books there. I loved The Mysteries of Udolfo when I read it as a young woman but suspect I might find it a bit flawed if I read it now 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🧡🧡🧡

[@jackiesliterarycorner]

@@louisesavidgemuses4135 I personally, wasn't crazy about it, but I did like some things.

[@suenicholls5446]

😀💕xx thanks so much Louise. Great choices as always. I shall reserve at least 3 from my library. Lots of love and I’m sure you are having an amazing holiday at the moment.⛰️😎✈️🥰

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

I am, thank you. I fly home today😕

[@suenicholls5446]

@@louisesavidgemuses4135 😀💕xx👍

[@amy_harboredinpages8272]

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[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

🙏🙏🙏🧡🧡🧡📚📚📚

[@eveellison5643]

I could listen to you talk about literature all day. Wonderful discussions.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Thank you - that’s a lovely thing to say 📚📚📚🧡🧡🧡🙏🙏🙏

[@BookwormAdventureGirl]

Love the vintage classic editions. Leave The World Behind and Kim Jiyoung… have been on my radar for a while. The Tusk That Did The Damage sounds really interesting. Great reading month. 😊💙

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Thank you 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🧡🧡🧡

[@sniffingthesheets]

I really want to read Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982!

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

I think you’ll enjoy it 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🧡🧡🧡

[@linsrabbits]

Lovely to her your thoughts on all these books as always. ❤

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Thank you!! 😊

[@garyiles3482]

I loved The Schoolhouse as well. Thanks for recommending it Louise

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

You're so welcome! 📚📚📚🙏🙏🙏🧡🧡🧡

[@susprime7018]

Congrats on your reads, thanks for the honest reviews.😊

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

My pleasure 🧡🧡🧡📚📚📚🙏🙏🙏

[@SavidgeReads]

I need to read Thread Ripper. Madwoman… well done for finishing it is all I’m saying. I looooooved Leave The World Behind, was GRIPPED. 1982. A particularly fine vintage year. I need to read that I have it on my shelves. I really, really need to read The Schoolhouse. In fact I might read it next.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

You should! 1982 was, indeed, quite a special year 🤣🤣🤣❤️❤️❤️

[@maartjedegroot9598]

Passing is such a great novel. I’ve read The vanishing half and this one back to back. Loved them both, but Passing was my favourite. Kim Young was also an amazingly written book. The tusk is on my tbr. I have a totally different cover and I love mine to bits.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Vanishing Half and Passing would complement each other really well 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🧡🧡🧡

[@carolewatson2113]

I was so frustrated with Leave the World Behind. Probably the way you felt about Madwoman!

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

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[@user-ym6tb8kf3j]

If you love books about India Read ‘the covenant of water’ Abraham Verghese Can’t recommend highly enough Love your channel…thank you❤

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Thank you! I’ll seek it out 🧡🧡🧡📚📚📚🙏🙏📚

[@curioushmm9027]

what a month....hope you do read some wonderful books this month too.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Much less reading done this month so far 🤦‍♀️🙏🙏🙏🧡🧡🧡📚📚📚

[@bethk-94]

Interesting that you mentioned Madwoman would have been better as non fiction - Kim Jiyoung is a much better example of fitting lots of factual information into fiction, I loved it and learned a lot at the same time!

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Could not agree more 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🧡🧡🧡

[@jacquelinemcmenamin8204]

Thread Ripper sounds very interesting. My best books of July were Little Monsters by Adrienne Brodeur The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue Kala by Colin Walsh Close To Home by Michael Magee Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin The New Life by Tom Crewe Currently listening to two books long listed for the Booker All The Little Bird Hearts The Bee Sting ☘️👋🍀☕️📕📚📖🇮🇪

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

What a list! I haven’t read so much this month 🧡🧡🧡📚📚📚🙏🙏🙏

[@RovingReader]

I love a good reading month! Are you a teacher? I teach 6th grade special education (11-12 year olds). I LOVED the end of Passing!!! 😮

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

I am a teacher (how could you tell? 🤣). I teach teenagers from age 11 to 18 and still love it after 30 years plus ❤️

[@RovingReader]

@@louisesavidgemuses4135 Haha you referred to time in a teacher way. Like we break up the year in the US between the school year and summer and you said a UK version of the same thing hahaha! I just got a new paper calendar and guess when it starts? August!!! haha!

[@fionacraig4723]

My favourite book in July was Hotline by Dimitri Nasrallah

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Ooo! I need to investigate 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🧡🧡🧡

[@heatherkirkland9056]

I loved" leave the world behind," as the book says more than between the lines and makes you question . A book thank leaves you thinking book. I would say on the same level as "My sister the serial killer." I think if you understand what the author is trying to say between the lines without stating it on the page, love book, that's why I think it's got mixed reviews. If I'm making sense ?

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Yes indeed, I know what you mean 📚📚📚🧡🧡🧡🙏🙏🙏

[@maryshimp2664]

Read Leave The World Behind for one of my book clubs on my recommendation. I was disappointed with the ending where nothing was cleared up as to why the son's teeth fell out, why the husband lost so much time and getting lost, why the animals were flocking.

[@maryshimp2664]

Also read Kaikeyi, loved it! But I read so fast through a book I didn't notice the off editing.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

I get where you’re coming from but I rather like an unsettled ending and I do remember thinking that the last few lines were quite telling 📚📚📚🧡🧡🧡🙏🙏🙏

[@leenanorms]

SHE WAS BYRON’S DAUGHTER??? What!!!

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

I KNOW 😱 She was the only legitimate one, but don’t think they had much to do with each other 🤦‍♀️🧡🧡🧡🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚

[@Emmareads15]

I thought that Kim Jiuoung was very clever, it really distanced the reader from the character which felt even worse, and then in the end you realise why you've been kept that way. Very interesting and infuriating read as a woman.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Absolutely 👍 Could not agree more 📚📚📚🧡🧡🧡🙏🙏🙏