Welcome Home. I hope you had a restful holiday. I recently finished a 5-star NF book which I am confident you will equally love. "Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent" by Dame Judi Dench is incredible. Its quite an important book IMO--something scholars and actors will reference for decades. At the same time, Dench is not scholarly or academic. In fact she is bawdy, humble, saucy. Brendan OHea and she have a series of conversations about her many roles. She recounts stories and remembers every vivid detail. The stories seem ordinary until you think about what she is describing and they you realize how extraordinary they are! I can't wait to read the plays now. Its not necessary to know them in order to enjoy this book. In this case, read the audiobook rather than print--or maybe both together--so you benefit from Dench's voice and frequent laughter. So good; so fun!
@louisesavidgemuses4135
3 ай бұрын
That’s a great audio pick! I’m going to download it now. I was lucky enough to see Judi Dench live in conversation last year. She’s so inspiring 🤩🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
@marjoriedybec3450
3 ай бұрын
@@louisesavidgemuses4135 I'm SOOO sure on this one. Have fun--I did.
@chrissiepenguinful
3 ай бұрын
I'd love to see you carry on your bookshelf tour. I'm nosy and would love to see what else is on there!
@louisesavidgemuses4135
3 ай бұрын
Thank you. I’ve every intention of doing it - just need to get round to it 😊🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
@SavidgeReads
3 ай бұрын
Hooray. You liked it. I’m thrilled. I really enjoyed this, it also made that trip to the quarry sooooo atmospheric and gave me such a haunting and enriched experience. Like when I read Rizzio when we went to Edinburgh.
@louisesavidgemuses4135
3 ай бұрын
I was so glad you passed it on to me ❤️❤️❤️❤️
@readingbytheriver5752
3 ай бұрын
Welcome back. I plan to read a few more books by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni - I read Independence a bit ago and really liked it. On my pile is The Mistress of Spices and One Amazing Thing. I was gifted Someone Else's Bucket List by Amy T. Matthews ( I know nothing about it so no preconceived ideas ); Books & Islands in Ojibwe Country by Louise Erdrich and Orchid Muse by Erica Hannickel - I've started both. I've been eyeing Glorious Exploits - thinking about a down the road read. Happy reading.
@louisesavidgemuses4135
3 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing! I loved Mistress of Spices. You have some really interesting choices there 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
@lissarice1876
3 ай бұрын
So look forward to your posts. Hard to not be pulled into your enthusiasm & your love of reading. Your reviews are spot on, giving just enough without giving anything away. Unlike many booktubers, your varied interest have taken me places I wouldn't have gone on my own. Really looking forward to this one. Thanks.
@louisesavidgemuses4135
3 ай бұрын
Thank you for such generous comments! 😊🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
@noteonthetext
3 ай бұрын
The audiobook is excellent! Very interesting to hear this story told in an Irish accent. The author narrates the audiobook :)
@louisesavidgemuses4135
3 ай бұрын
Good to know! 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
@JillK-re4gv
3 ай бұрын
Another book for my TBR list! Sounds fascinating. Wonderful that you could visit such a poignant location as well. Hope you’re refreshed from your trip Louise!
@louisesavidgemuses4135
3 ай бұрын
Indeed I am! Have been gardening AND decorating today 😂🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk
3 ай бұрын
Plenty in your library to keep you busy and out of mischief there. Happy reading.
@louisesavidgemuses4135
3 ай бұрын
Thank you! You too! 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
@cecilialau_
3 ай бұрын
Lovely to hear that you enjoyed your holiday! 🥰😎 In terms of suggestions though…. Hmm. If you’d want to do a reading vlog for example, I think that would be fun. Like when you and Simon did your parallel reading stints last year. Maybe reading backlist books by favourite authors or their debut? Reading the longest/shortest book on your shelves? Reading the oldest/newest book? Reading your name/initials, so a book beginning with L and S in a vlog? Or the eleventh book from the left on your sixth shelf? 😅 Maybe you can make a tbr jar with prompts to help choose from your shelves? I know you’re already doing prompts with that in mind though. Off the top of my head - hoped it helped a little (and wasn’t just confusing) 😂
@louisesavidgemuses4135
3 ай бұрын
Some great food for thought here! Thank you so much - especially like longest and shortest books 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
@smileycindy
3 ай бұрын
Have you been reading books based on the prompts you picked with Simon last December? I would be interested in hearing you muse about this. I have drawn inspiration from your list of prompts and read the following books so far: - Book that's a retelling: Thornedge from T. Kingfisher (retelling of Sleeping Beauty) - Booktuber favorite books: Piranesi from Susanna Clarke - Animal, Vegetable or Mineral: The Measure from Nikki Erlick (bouquet of flowers on the cover) - Backlist book by a favorite author: Us Against You from Fredrik Backman - Honorific in the title: The Last Mrs. Parrish from Liv Constantine - Book set in a region where you've lived longer than a year: À l'ombre de la Sainte Mafia from Claire Bergeron (set in my native region) - Book by an author you've never read before: Seven Days in June - Tia Williams I tried reading Ninth House (Leigh Bardugo) for the snake on the cover prompt, but quickly DNF'ed it as it was not my style. I have an idea of what I could read for the March and May prompts, but I'm not sure what I could read for the remaining prompts. The year is still young, I might find inspiration later. I do refer to the list when I'm looking at the new book selection from the library to see what could match.
@louisesavidgemuses4135
3 ай бұрын
So glad that you are enjoying the prompts. I am using them and you’ve nudged me to maybe do a prompt catchup video 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
@CharlieBrookReads
3 ай бұрын
Pleased you had a wonderful holiday. This book sounds really good. Thank you for chatting about it to us. ☺️
@louisesavidgemuses4135
3 ай бұрын
My pleasure, Charlie. 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
@janebowell3985
3 ай бұрын
I was intrigued about this last time you spoke about and it s in order 🎉do thank you, Louise.
@louisesavidgemuses4135
3 ай бұрын
You're so welcome! 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
@janedrilling3494
3 ай бұрын
Thanks Louise, has been reserved at the library!
@louisesavidgemuses4135
3 ай бұрын
Hope you enjoy it! 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
@suzanneunderhill6060
3 ай бұрын
I visited Syracuse and the quarries in October but we werent able to hire an audio guide so i had no idea about their use. What a great recommendation thanks - ive added it to my birthday list!
@louisesavidgemuses4135
3 ай бұрын
Do hope you enjoy it 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
@lynniepie52
3 ай бұрын
I put Glorious Exploits on my TBR…sounds like a romp! I just led out book club in the discussion of The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store and it was FAB!
@louisesavidgemuses4135
3 ай бұрын
That’s good to know 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
@kimswhims8435
3 ай бұрын
Just requested that my library purchase it, thanks Louise!
@louisesavidgemuses4135
3 ай бұрын
Hope you like it! 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
@AnnaD791
3 ай бұрын
Thanks for another wonderful video. I've just added Glorious Exploits to my tbr. As for suggestions for future videos, I always enjoy it when you review slightly older books from authors' backlists.
@louisesavidgemuses4135
3 ай бұрын
Great tip! Thanks 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
@mypeacefulrevolution
3 ай бұрын
Another recommendation from you that sounds amazing! My book of the month in April was Soldier Sailor and I'm so happy it's on the women's prize shortlist 😊
@louisesavidgemuses4135
3 ай бұрын
I loved it too and am equally happy 😃 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
@RovingReader
3 ай бұрын
I love that you’re doing these videos this year 🎉
@louisesavidgemuses4135
3 ай бұрын
Glad you like them! 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
@user-ld7pv4tn7l
3 ай бұрын
Hello Louise, thank you for this wonderful and exciting recommendation. I'm looking forward to buy and start this one. With reading regards, Lily📚
@louisesavidgemuses4135
3 ай бұрын
You are so welcome! 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
@cindyhaiken5644
3 ай бұрын
I read Glorious Exploits last month. I honestly don’t think I’ve read anything like it. It was so clever and compassionate and real. Deserving of this video, for sure!
@louisesavidgemuses4135
3 ай бұрын
So glad I’m not alone in feeling such joy for this one 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
@emmavd
3 ай бұрын
It’s good to see you back, Louise!🌷Thanks for the review, I was intrigued when Simon showed us this book, and now even more so. With your plan of reading the WPF shortlist, I hardly dare suggesting an extra book from the longlist. However, I would love to hear your opinion on Ordinary Human Failings. I’m only 80 pages in, but I start understanding why so many readers are enthusiastic about it.
@louisesavidgemuses4135
3 ай бұрын
I absolutely loved Ordinary Human Failings and was gutted that it wasn’t shortlisted! 🤦🏼♀️🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
@emmavd
3 ай бұрын
@@louisesavidgemuses4135 Hi Louise😊Maybe the judges didn’t want to add a third Irish novel to Soldier Sailor and The Wren the Wren… Somehow I’ve missed your review of Ordinary Human Failings. Could you perhaps tell me roughly when you talked about it?
@beautynscience2010
3 ай бұрын
Louise, I swear you look younger and younger in each video 😊. Glad to hear you had a great time away.
@louisesavidgemuses4135
3 ай бұрын
Thank you! 😊🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
@enidlacob1157
3 ай бұрын
Welcome back Your holiday sounded great. I love your enthusiasm for the book Glorious Exploits makes me want to read it despite the time it is set is not usually my comfort reading I need to read more books like that . Thanks and kindest regards from a Cape Town What about doing a video on Classical fiction with a background for people like me who haven’t studied classical Greece and Rome
@louisesavidgemuses4135
3 ай бұрын
Love your idea, Enid. I’ll get my thinking cap on 🧐🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
@GeraldineRowe
3 ай бұрын
Well, that's gone straight onto my wish list! 😂 I did Aeschylus for A Level so I might give Euripides a whirl. I only know Medea.
@louisesavidgemuses4135
3 ай бұрын
Oh gosh! Was it Agamemnon? I love that raw, blinding play? 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
@GeraldineRowe
3 ай бұрын
@@louisesavidgemuses4135 We definitely did Agamemnon, and maybe the whole of the Oresteia. We also did Oedipus Tyrannus (Sophocles's, I assume, plus a quick comparison with a much more violent Roman version), and I remember a play about a woman getting walled up in a cave as a punishment designed to keep the king's hands clean of her blood. Or something. I did my A Levels in '85, so my memory's quite hazy!
@MyLocsareREAL
3 ай бұрын
Your look so Beautiful and Relaxed 🥰💕
@louisesavidgemuses4135
3 ай бұрын
Thank you so much 🤗
@kathleenwalsh3556
3 ай бұрын
Hi Louise It's great when u come across a book that just bowls you over. However, sorry Parker's book about the Welsh borderlands didn't grab me; not so much a dnf as drs (didnt really start). I found the writing, for me, dense and over heavy with imagery. Was so looking 4ward to it. Tried but gave up. Enjoying Patchett's Tom Lake v much.
@louisesavidgemuses4135
2 ай бұрын
Ah, that’s a shame. I can see why you might find the style dense. I love the way that books can prompt such varied responses 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩷🩷🩷
@karenmoore4430
3 ай бұрын
Hi Louise. How are you getting on with the Savidge Prompts? I read The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker. It was ok. I am trying to pick books that are on my Kindle TBR.
@louisesavidgemuses4135
3 ай бұрын
I have my book lined up for this month’s prompt but not started it yet! 🙄🙏🙏🙏🩵🩵🩵📚📚📚
@MJ-in-Canada
3 ай бұрын
Carry on musing!😀
@louisesavidgemuses4135
3 ай бұрын
I will… 😃🙏🙏🙏🩵🩵🩵📚📚📚
@marjoriedybec3450
3 ай бұрын
As for what I'd love to have you muse on...given Alice Munro's recent death, I'd love to know any thoughts you have on her writing. I've only read one or two of her short stories.
@louisesavidgemuses4135
3 ай бұрын
I can’t quite believe that I haven’t read any of her work and I love Canadian authors! So now you’ve given me the incentive to look at where to start with her and dive in! 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
@marjoriedybec3450
3 ай бұрын
@@louisesavidgemuses4135 I'm reading "Dear Life," a short story collection for that same reason. Better late than never.
@mradcaqbdb
3 ай бұрын
When Simon talked about this book on his channel (or was it Patreon?) the other day, I was instantly compelled to investigate. I listened to the audiobook sample on Amazon that is read so perfectly by the author. It just sounded fantastic. Still not sure whether audiobook or physical book is better, but I reserved the physical book at the library and I’m so psyched to read it. It must have been amazing to stand where those ancient Athenians stood.
@louisesavidgemuses4135
3 ай бұрын
It was incredibly moving. There is something intensely atmospheric about those quarries. Really hope you enjoy the physical book. 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
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