Mega Book Haul

[@Nina_DP]

Laura was made into a classic 1940s noir film directed by Otto Preminger and starring Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews. Definitely worth a watch if you can get your hands on it. Popcorn recommended!

[@cjprince1]

Fantastic movie!

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Must remember to watch it after I’ve read the book 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@DianaLong-om3ck]

Laura was a really good movie, I ended up buying the DVD for it because it is one of the movies my great uncle had a role in. He was the detective, not a credited role but none the less still one of the better movies he was in...lol. I never thought about it as a book so I will have to check it out.

[@leeh4343]

Absolutely adored The Offing so I hope you do too! I have recently finished Cuddy by the same author and loved that too! Happy reading Louise 😊

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Thanks. You too 🙏🙏🙏📚📚👌🩷🩷🩷

[@karenmoore4430]

Hi Louise I read My Fathers House last month. Really good. I who have never known men is my best book of the year so far.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Wonderful! Now looking forward to them even more 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@gailhewitt1467]

What a fabulous mixed bag. I Who Have Never Known Men is my favourite read so far this year. My Father's House is now on my buy list.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Brilliant 🤩 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@MJ-in-Canada]

That's quite the haul! My favourite recent read was “Christ on a Bike” by Irish author, Orla Owen.🚲 The protagonist, Carys, comes into an unexpected inheritance but must follow a strict set of rules that comes with this sudden windfall. A very engaging story!

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

That sounds like a really fun premise 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@JardineraAnge]

Hi Lourise! I've just started The Trees and I don't want to put it down. As you say, it's dark but hilarious at the same time. I also loved the film American Fiction, based on his book 'Erasure'. I definitely want to read more by him. The Offing is an ideal summer read - I read it last year and really enjoyed it. The friendship that develops between the two characters is deeply touching, as is the portrayal of a changing landscape and the continuity of the life/death cycle reflected in nature.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Sounds great and I’m so pleased you’re enjoying The Trees! 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@lesleybradley9370]

Aw the offing is absolutely brilliant. Just a beautiful quiet book. Heaven x

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Marvellous 🤩

[@karencamer7723]

Hi Louise you are in for a real treat with Benjamin Myers. Every one of his books are five star reads . His new one is out in August - Rare Singles

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Brilliant to know! 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@antineah1889]

I can’t wait to hear what you think of Jacqueline Harpman’s book. I’ve read it for my dystopian fiction class next year and I loved it, but 2 friends didn’t like it at all and are counselling against selecting it for the class. Great haul! Good to have you back, I was missing your lovely videos!

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Ooo. Now my interest is really piqued 🧐🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@joanneorrico1761]

I absolutely loved The Faces by Tove Ditlevson. Discovered her last year while browsing at my local library; her writing is absolutely stunning.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

That’s great to know. Am looking forward to reading her 🙏🙏🙏🩷🩷🩷📚📚📚

[@carolynmonahan2488]

I loved, loved Percival Everett's James.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

👍👍👍📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@JillK-re4gv]

Fabulous haul. Have not read any of those and so many appeal to me. Thank you as ever Louise!

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

You're so welcome! 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@barbarahelgaker390]

Think you will like Benjamin Myers - The Offing is lovely and so is Cuddy!

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Looking forward to reading him 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@Salaciousreader]

Hi Louise, what a great selection of books 😊 I am just finishing up Glorious Exploits which I bought after watching your review and I’ve got to say it’s one of my favourite of the year so far. So many thanks!! Adore your channel ❤

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

That’s great to know. So glad 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@wendycayless]

Mateship with Birds is on my Kindle - I need to get to it. Plus I have a copy of the Offing which needs finishing. A book I finished yesterday and just LOVED is Dirt Town by Australian author Hayley Scrivenor. Highly recommended. It's more than Australian noir - it's really literary and just SO GOOD. I can't wait for her next book Girl Falling which is set where I live in the Blue Mountains of NSW.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

I’ve put that on my wish list 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@kathleenwalsh3556]

Hi Louise from a cold and stormy NZ An interesting mix you have there. Just finished and v much enjoyed Anne Patchett's Tom Lake (and a while ago The Dutch House). Got either How We Break or Helen (wife of the more famous James) Rebanks's new book waiting at the librsry. Heard an interview with writer of a book about Mark Antony which u might like.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Ooo! Would love to know more about the Marc Antony book… 🙏🙏🙏🩷🩷🩷📚📚📚

[@TKTalksBooks]

Hello Louise! Terrific stack of books! I can’t wait to hear your reviews of them as you go along your reading journey! Several of them I’d like to dive into, as well!

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Thank you 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@mrsbookworm72]

I love this Louise some are on my shelf and now some are in my basket 👏👏👏👏👏

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

😊🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@CharlieBrookReads]

Loads of great books. Ours is on my wish list too so I will be interested to hear what you think of it as/when you get to it. 📚

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Will be sure to share my thoughts 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@cindyhaiken5644]

You have some excellent reading ahead of you with several of those books Louise! I was in Edinburgh earlier this month and did quite a lot of shopping both in Blackwell’s and in Toppings there. I came away with 16 books in total, only one of which has a US publication date, so it was sheer joy!!!

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Oh wow! I just loved Toppings 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@gailgilchrist5421]

Cindy Haiken, I am going to Edinburgh next month, mainly to attend a book launch for a friend, and am also excited at the prospect of visiting all my favorite bookshops there: Golden Hare, Toppings, Portobello Books, and Blackwell's.

[@cindyhaiken5644]

@@gailgilchrist5421I went to all of those. Such a wonderful experience!

[@janthurling8868]

"My father's house" is a true story and it was made into a great film called The Scarlet and the Black, starring Gregory Peck, Sir John Geilgood and Christopher Plummer. It and the film of Laura are both excellent movies. Enjoying My father's house right now. Will have to hunt down the book of Laura.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Oh good. Am hoping to get to it too soon 🙏🙏🙏🩷🩷🩷📚📚📚

[@karenkeay9624]

When you showed us the book Laura I remembered watching a film of that name maybe 40 years ago. I looked it up and there is a film called Laura starring Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney. The author is in the writing credits. The film was from 1944. 😊

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Will enjoy that once I’ve read the book 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@Tristan-L-Space-Books]

I'm very excited to read Ours as well. I think I'm going to try to read it in June. The few pages of it that I've read were very engaging.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

That sounds promising! Let’s hope we both enjoy it 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@cecilialau_]

I’m so intrigued to hear your thoughts on Benjamin Myers, Louise. I’ve also got The Offing and I am definitely aiming to read it this summer bc I’m just convinced I’ll love his writing. Cuddy by him will be next then! Haha. Hope you have a fab time with your pile of delights 😁😎🙌

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Thank you. I really want to get to him sooner, rather than later… 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@susprime7018]

I spent a wonde4ful summer in the eighties reading the books that my favorite old movies were based on and Laura was one of them. Now Voyager was another and Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House and Blandings Way, which were both funnier than the movie, and all the Thin Man books and others by Dashiell Hammett, amazing what writers could get away with in the old days, double entendre truly wonderful.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

That’s such a wonderful idea! Love it 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@lynniepie52]

Hitchcock adapted the book Laura into a film. It’s really good right now. I’m reading absolution. I’m really enjoying it. I think Simon recommended it.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Thanks for the film recommendation 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@helenwilson9622]

Tove D is excellent. Read her memoir last year. Recommended.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Good to know 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@jacquelinemcmenamin8204]

Eileen was a great book. Lots of great adaptations of novels at the moment. Another book you might like A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock. A version of Frankenstein. Joseph O’Connor is/was Sinead O’Connors’ brother. There was a bbc radio 4 abridged version a few months ago. 🍀👋☘️💐☕️📕📚📖🇮🇪🤩

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

OMG, I did not know that! Wow 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@emmavd]

Thank you, Louise!🌷The Offing has joined my wishlist and I’m going to spend one of my birthday book-vouchers on it. I’m currently reading The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. It was written in 1924, but Persephone republished it (I’m actually listening to the audiobook, but have ordered the printed version as well). If you’re interested in gender-role expectations and reversal by an author who was considered quite progressive in her days, this is a beautifully written (the children’s psychology is masterfully portrayed) and engaging book.🥰📚

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

I haven’t come across this one at all. Thanks so much for the recommendation 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@kathy2539]

I don't know if you've read Peach Blossom Spring, it's a beautiful book and I gave it 5 stars. I have added three of the books you've shown to my tbr; Laura, My Father's House and Mateship with Birds. Thank you.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

I haven’t come across it and will keep an eye out for it 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@jordanb7796]

Great haul! I've picked up so many of these books myself recently (My Father's House, Dr No, Boysie Singh, a Benjamin Myers), so I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts on them. I recently picked up Possession by A.S. Byatt in a charity shop and devoured it over a weekend. It was such a beautiful, thoughtful read, and another one of those 'classics' that I'm also trying catch up on!

[@DebMcDonald]

Possession is one of my top favourite books. I think I’ve read it four times and would happily read it again. There’s so much to take in.

[@jordanb7796]

@@DebMcDonald It was definitely a 5-star read for me! I'm already looking forward to revisiting it one day and picking up on more a second time around (with the power of retrospect!).

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

I’ve never read it and I’m not sure why I haven’t. Thanks for putting it back on my radar 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@hollyc4624]

Ooh…I have been eying the book Ours at our local indie bookshop and trying to decide if I should give it a go. I’m excited to see if you like it. Did Simon read it? I will have to check his channel too!

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

I’m pretty sure Simon has read it and don’t think he would have passed it on if he hadn’t enjoyed it 😂🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@BookishAdventuresInWellbeing]

We’ve just read I Who Have Never Known Men for our book club and had such a good discussion. Enjoy!

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Brilliant 🤩 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@LouiseReader]

Oh I don't think that's such a mega book haul Louise, I bought nearly that many books just today! Well at least six I think... but now I need to buy a few more. I had no idea that John Berger had written fiction. I've had his Ways of Seeing on my shelves for literally years, maybe as many as 10 or more.. it's about how to look at art. I've just taken it off my shelf, and I think I'll bump it to the top of the list. I think I need to get The Foot of Clive though. I agree that a prisoner in hospital is an interesting premise. And checking to see if it's available in Australia I found another title called A Fortunate Man, a biography of a country GP. Sold! I'll need to order both of those next time I'm in my local bookshop. I've also had Tove Ditlevsen on my radar for some years as well. I have her trio of memoir - Childhood, Youth and Dependency on the physical TBR. If you'd be interesting in doing a buddy read with a random Australian Louise then I'd love to get a copy of faces and join you.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

That’s a lovely idea. Not sure when I’ll get to it but will try to mention when I do. 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@LouiseReader]

@@louisesavidgemuses4135 I'm ordering a copy of Faces so I can be ready whenever you are, and I'm going to order the Berger books too in case you get to one of those first.

[@LouiseReader]

I now have a copy of Ditlevsen’s Faces so if you want to do a buddy read some time Louise I’m still keen. No rush or pressure of course. I’m just about to start Jane Austen July and an Australian readathon for July. But it’s only tiny so if you were champing at the bit for it and would like to read it in July then that’s great too.

[@allisonryder4781]

Oooh lots here that piqued my interest! ❤thank you!

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@GeraldineRowe]

Coincidentally I've just finished reading Eileen. I enjoyed it more than My Year of Rest and Relaxation (there are some superficial parallels), but not as much as Lapvona. I Who Have Never Known Men is a wonderful read. It's one of those books that has stayed with me. I'm trying not to add the rest of your haul to my wish list 😂

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

😂😂😂🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@sonjatonnesen8619]

That Tove Ditlevsen novel is great!!

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Good to know. Thank you 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@kirstyhatton1857]

Tove Ditlevsen had a difficult life and died young. A poet as well as novelist. I hope The faces is available in the UK. I have studied Danish but sadly not read any of her works.

[@donna25871]

Laura was made into an excellent film in the 1940’s starring Gene Tierney.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@RovingReader]

Oh I LOVED The Other Side of Mrs. Wood AND I didn't realize it was loosely based on a true relationship. Don't google ahead of time :)

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Thanks for the warning 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷

[@SavidgeReads]

First to comment. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@allisonryder4781]

😂

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Get you 😂😂😂❤️❤️❤️

[@DebMcDonald]

I’ve seen the movie based on Laura. It stars Dana Andrews and is excellent! Very Daphne-ish. Joseph O’Conner’s book is based on a real priest from Cork and is shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. I can’t wait to hear your opinion on these. 🌷🩷

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Ooo. I didn’t know it had some basis in fact. Thanks for letting me know 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷