Reading Wrap Up November 2024

[@evamarie1537]

I really enjoyed The Goldfinch aswell. It was a long time ago that I read it though so I was happy about your summary. I especially enjoyed Theo’s and Boris’s friendship. You read the poem so beautifully!

[@alisongeddes7512]

Love your wrap ups 🥰👏🏻🥰

[@Ali-AvidReader]

I’m a huge fan of Maya Angelou, you read her poem so beautifully. Have added Bernardine Evaristo’s book to my list.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Do hope you enjoy it 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵

[@juliehughes1258]

The Goldfinch is such an amazing book. I remember snippets and characters, and I definitely remember how the explosion was written. Could NOT be better.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Totally agree 👍

[@SavidgeReads]

Glad you loved Saltwater, that was the winner of the Portico Prize when I was chair. Coughs. Lol. She does have a second novel. Oooh interesting thoughts on Luckenbooth. I looooved that book. I read it around Halloween and in Edinburgh which was the perfect reading concoction for that book. Such interesting thoughts on Her Body and Other Parties too! I thought most of it was brilliant. A few duds but mostly brilliant. If there’s too much sex in those books DONT you read that Tsiolkas!!! Oh and I love Bernardine obvs.

[@ralphharris6374]

Halfway through the goldfinch. It’s huge but I love it. I also read the secret history earlier this year and enjoyed it. It down drop off in the middle but I DTs writing. Her characters are beautifully created. You really care for them even if they aren’t nice. Great video once again xxx

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Thank you and so delighted that you’re enjoying The Goldfinch 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵

[@cindyhaiken5644]

What a great reading month you had!!! I just read Jenni Fagan’s memoir Ootlin and thought it was so honestly and movingly told and so important. Love her writing!

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

One to watch then! Thank you 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵

[@azu_rikka]

Maya Angelou's poem sent shivers down my spine.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

It’s a stunner 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵

[@taneesewilson8844]

Always enjoy seeing what you’ve been reading Louise and how lovely to enjoy and have a memoir from your brother-in-law. I just so agree with what you said about Maya Angelou and her voice. I will stop what I’m doing if I hear her speak🥰Huge fan. Loved, loved, loved your reading of her poem. Would love it if you read more poems in your videos. Intrigued for Saltwater and the mother/daughter theme and going to add it to my tbr. I’ve started December with AC and HP’s Christmas and into the first chapter of Goldfinch. Nice wrap up video!😊📚

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Thank you. Please do let me know how you get on with Goldfinch 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵

[@C.Aikman-yj7fq]

Thank you for reading Maya Angelou's 'Family Affairs' to us, Louise. 💐 Carol

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Glad you enjoyed it 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵

[@EileenDriscoll]

Fabulous!! Thank. You❤

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

You are so welcome! 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵

[@LouiseReader]

Thanks for the nudge to get to Manifesto. I actually had the audio on loan from the library at the moment. So you prompted me to start it today. Loving it so far.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Wonderful! Does she read it herself? 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵

[@LouiseReader]

@@louisesavidgemuses4135 Yes she does, it's delightful, as you'd imagine

[@annewareing5393]

Thank you Louise for a great round up and your poetry reading - very well delivered - please share again ! Agree with you on The secret history - tried it several times and DNF but I love The Goldfinch. Just finished Clear by Carys Davies as well as another reader which is excellent and Long Island - will be reading more of Colm Toibin 😊

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Loved Clear and only have one Toibin under my belt but looking forward to his others 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵

[@susprime7018]

I loved The Goldfinch, too. Happy for your good reading month, I hope Orbital will have the same result for me as the little Susanna Clarke had for you, because right now, "it does not seem to be that much of a story," to me. Jonathan Livingston Segall lives.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

I hope so too! I agree that there is no plot as such but there’s a whole world in there too 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵

[@RebeccaStultz-y9f]

Please, Louise, do continue sharing with us poems and the poetry books you are reading! My November poetry book was The Lost Words, stunningly illustrated acrostic nature poems by Robert Macfarlane. It’s an artfully written and art-full book. My November reading included a nonfiction book with a church group, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’ Farrell for another book club, and Lauren Geoff’s The Vaster Wilds for a book set in Thanksgiving’s Puritan time. I recommend The Vaster to Wilds for those who enjoy detailed description of the setting, a “survivalist” female character, and being immersed in a character’s thought process. Sometime I want to reread The Vaster Wilds and attend more thoughtfully to the heroine’s theological musings.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Love the eclectic mix of books here. Thanks for the recommendations 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵

[@leolamoon11]

Recently finished The Goldfinch and absolutely loved it. Such wonderful writing. Tartt states that Dickens and Dostoyevsky are major inspirations. Been thinking about reading more Dickens and Dostoyevsky as I so enjoyed diving into this lengthy novel….and maybe need a break from contemporary fiction after reading All Fours by Miranda July, which was overmuch for me!

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Haven’t read All Fours. Thinking about listening to A Tale of Two Cities though as I loved it as a child 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵

[@miaarndt9501]

I really enjoyed The Goldfinch (read it several years ago), but I find it interesting that you’re so satisfied with the resolution because I truly cannot remember how it ends hah

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

😂😂🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵

[@GuroFlemmen]

Highlights for me in November were Sarah Moss' memoir My Good Bright Wolf (the audiobook is so well narrated!), Andvake (Wakefulness) by Jon Fosse, and Heroine Chic by Maria Kjos Fonn (not sure if it's been translated into English. I know there is a German translation. But it's such a good, harrowing book about addiction).

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Ooo. You’ve inspired me. Think I’ll do the Moss memoir on audiobook 😊🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵

[@karenmoore4430]

Hi Louise I read Lily for one of the Savidge Prompts, the backlist book by a favourite author. I thought it was a banger as Simon would say.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Absolutely 👍 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵

[@kirstyhatton1857]

I stuck mostly with non fiction November and read both of Katja Hoyer's books about German history. Both were interesting and clear reads.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

I have one and have been meaning to get to it 👍🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵

[@rebecca.reader]

I'm actually reading one of your recommendations at the moment. Dark Matter by Michelle Paver. So far, so good...its incredibly atmospheric.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

So pleased you’re enjoying it and thanks for letting me know 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵

[@jacquelinemcmenamin8204]

Best books I read in November Clear by Carys Davies The Snow Child

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

Loved both of those 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵

[@svance1041]

A few of those books sound really strange. I am amazed you continued reading them! Do you ever DNF a book?

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

I do! More often than I used to 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵

[@nancyhollingworth7729]

I have read 2 books recently which I found extremely challenging for very different reasons( in their content) Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck. I feel I need to know more about East Germany. The second I have just finished today. Old God's time by Sebastian Barry. You knew this book was building towards something awful but OMG. I need something more light hearted for then festive season now. I'm about to start Rare Singles by Benjamin Myers.

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

I keep picking up Kairos in book shops and then putting it down. Really not sure why 🧐🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵

[@nancyhollingworth7729]

@louisesavidgemuses4135 it was an interesting book about the protagonists' relationships but I feel I'd have got more from it if I'd understood more about the history and politics of that time. I enjoyed the Goldfinch but really preferred The Little Friend.

[@karenshann]

I agree with you about Luckenbooth, I disagree with you about Margaret Thatchers handling of the miners strike, she dealt with the strike in a firm and effective way. The country was being brought to its knees by its communist leader Scargill, she efficiently put a stop to that😊

[@louisesavidgemuses4135]

We’ll have to agree on the book but agree to disagree about the miners. 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵