🥕thank you for making my year so bearable. I look forward to watching your videos, as they bring me lots of joy and more books to read. Have a wonderful 2023 🎉
I’ve read the Smiley and it’s really good. Very atmospheric, very strong women, very interesting story. Thrilled to be going through Another Year of Wonder with you! And here’s hoping 2023 is a much better year!!! 🥕🥕🐰
I’m ready for 2023 to be a much better year so it better be. It wasn’t awful by any means. Just pretty bumpy which after the last few years is saying something. Highs as well as lows though. Very excited for Another Year of Wonder!
Hahaha. I know that feeling. I have piles of books all over the place at the moment but hoping to have them all sorted soon. Hope you have a wonderful New Years!
🥕🐇 Look, I did both . Happy New Year to you. Lovely pile of books to begin 2023 with. A prompt for you & Louise: Read a book from the Stella list, either current (March 2023) or past? If January or February prompts, then past it is.
A very happy new year to you Simon! I've been sat here adding books to my wish list from this video! Like you I'm hoping to read more by whim next year 🥕
All the best for 2023, thanks for the videos. I love Jane Smiley, was not aware of a new book, thanks for the tip. I read Amy and Isabelle long ago, disturbing but wonderful.🥕🐇
🥕 I will need to go back through this video later. There were definitely some books I want to look out for. Happy New Year, Simon. I hope we both have a better 2023. ❤️
@@SavidgeReads Oh, yes. The new one from Kate Sawyer. I was super excited when I heard she had a new book coming out. I think Mrs Harris might have posted about it on Insta. Little bit unsure because it seems to be more of a family saga, which is generally not my thing, but I adored The Stranding so much, I’ll definitely preorder her new one.
I don’t think I’m going to be interviewing him now due to TRAIN STRIKES, ugh. But I’ll still read the book at some point when the whim takes. He’s an interesting character that’s for sure.
Thanks for making me widen my genre choice this year - I'd been hooked on crime (not surprisingly I suppose) but feel as though I've had a better mix. I have really enjoyed your videos and wish you and yours all the very very best for 2023 🥕🥕 look out carrot here comes the wabbit🐇
@@SavidgeReads Well as a crime writer myself I tend to be drawn to others in the same genre - I guess when your mind is full of stabby stabby oh look a dead person you have to struggle to move along the aisle to family sagas and you forget how intriguing they can be.
Thank you for a great year of reading, Simon! I don't always comment but I wanted to send you a big thanks and Happy New Year! Looking forward to your best books of 2022 video!
Thank you Simon for all your videos love 💕 everything you do. One of my highlights for 2022 was bumping into you in Bath ☺️. Keep doing what your doing and Happy New Year 🎉 to you 🥕🐰x
Happy New Year Simon Thank you for your book recommendations … I have recently read ‘I am Lucy Barton’ just a fabulous book … I’ve bought more books from Elizabeth Strout so looking forward to read more from this very interesting author!
Ahh, Hans Christian Anderson. Took me right back to my childhood. Went to Denmark when I was 8 (60 now 😆),visited his house and promptly fell in love with his books. Happy new year Simon xxxx❤️🌲 Great vlog x
I only follow one other book tuber as I can't find anyone else I like to listen to. I just subscribed to you! Might be because you're also English?! Anyway, just to say thanks to you for being here, and expanding my book tube material!! xx
I really loved A Children's Bible. Dinosaurs looks great as well. It might be cool to do a year of wonder in reverse as a reread... Listen to the music each day and then read the essay if inspired. Happy new year!! All the best to you and yours in 2023 and beyond!
Hahaha. I don’t know if I could mentally cope with going backwards with one and forwards with another. Also the recent ones will be super fresh and some of the earlier ones I might have forgotten so need a refresher. Glad Lydia Millet delivered for you. I’m hoping she does for me. Happy New Year when it comes.
Happy New Year! Having just successfully listened to two audiobooks over the Christmas period (even though I really struggle to concentrate on audiobooks usually), would you and your lovely mum consider listening to two different audiobooks by the same author as a 2023 prompt? 🥕
Thanks for another great year of content 😀 All the best for 2023, sounds like you've got an exciting year coming up. I've just finished Haunted Houses and thought it was great, though I'm not sure I got it all either 😄
I did not know Naoise Dolan had a new book coming out. Very exciting! I’ve been really wanting to read books similar to Downton Abbey so I will definitely be looking into The Housekeepers and The Shooting Party. 🥕
Just here to say hello ! Haven´t read any of the mentioned books, but most sound amazing! Happy readings! Happy NewYear to you to (Jan 1st is my birthday! )
Greetings from the U.S. I really enjoy your channel, especially your tangents. They're charming. I read Amy and Isabelle a few years ago. I found the writing really good and the subject matter difficult. There was another book that you've read and loved that has a similar premise. I'm looking forward to how you like Amy and Isabelle. It might nudge me to read the similar book that I've been afraid to read.
🥕🥕🥕hi again, yes Happy New Year!!! My favorite holiday by far...whatever the year, no matter how great or not so, by December end it is like dregs of coffee cup and I'm so ready for fresh year start. ✨ 🥕🐰 ☕ ! 📚! 🍍
🥕 I haven’t even started Year of Wonder and I’m excited there is Another Year of Wonder! 😂 Here’s my prompt suggestion…Blurbed by one of your favorite authors. Thanks for a fun video!
I have been to Berlin and Copenhagen in Jan/Feb - have fun and I’ll just say pack your thermals 🥶😄 I’ll always pick Lonely Planet as they’re Aussie based 😉 HNY 🎉
Ha. I know they’ll both be super cold. It’s one of the reasons I want to go. Very excited for travelling although sadly my trip to Australia has had to be cancelled for 2023. Fingers crossed 2024.
Late to the party. Recently found your channel and have been mainlining episodes. Thanks for all the book chat. I'm a bookseller in Vermont, and we seem to have similar interests in books. I was wondering if you'd discovered Mieko Kawakami. I devoured Breasts and Eggs and also Heaven. She's a new favorite author of mine. All the Lovers in the Night did not quite live up to the other two, but still a fascinating read. Have you read Mona Awad? If not, check out Bunny and All's Well. So far, my books of the year are Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor and Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton. Ghost Music was quite good too. I'm on a real Japanese lit kick. And novels dealing with the Asian-American experience. Really, any literature in translation piques my interest these days. Huge fan of short stories. Looking forward to your thoughts on the upcoming awards season. Just wanted to say hi and join the party!
Hi Phillip! Welcome to the channel. I really hope you keep enjoying it. I love that I’ve been being mainlined. Hahaha. I read Heaven but wasn’t too sure however Anton Hur recommended me Kawakami’s All The Lovers in the night, and he knows his stuff, so am going to try that and see who of you I agree with most. Ha. I also have Bunny, Age of Vice, Ghost Music and Birnam Wood on my shelves! So looking forward to them all the more now.
Tell me…how many books do you generally read a month? I would love to be able to do something like this but am not sure I read enough to keep up with content. As a gauge, I read 86 books so far this year.
It depends on the month and what’s going on. Do you mean making a RU-vid channel? If so it’s not about how much you read. It’s just about making content about what you do read or what you’ve got lately or about bookshops you visit whatever you like. And you can just do one a week to start with. My biggest tip is have a go but don’t share it at first and just see how you like doing it and how it fits in with your life. Some BookTubers read a book a week. Some read six or seven. Variety is the spice of life.
Oooh I was almost going on the 7th. Have had to juggle my dates around a bit at the last minute though with things going on and meetings. Have a fabulous time 🥕
I know this is probably well meant but if someone is going to do something, please don’t tell them not to if they’ve researched it and are excited for it.
Great selection of books, thank you for sharing! When we’ve been travelling in Europe myself and my partner really love the CITIX60 travel guides (just in case you were interested 😊)
Please don't feel like you have to apologize for being yanked out of an otherwise good book bc of fatphobia, food shaming, etc. It's SO frustrating! Editors need to pay closer attention to this. I adore the Thursday Murder Club series but the food shaming/fatphobia keeps me from TOTALLY loving it...
It wasn’t the author who was fatphobic just to clarify. It was the characters. It was just the descriptions that annoyed me as they didn’t really vary. I spotted some of that in Osman’s books. Graham Norton is a bugger for doing it too.
Just to piggyback on why you shouldn’t feel bad about getting a bit stuck on the fatphobia - I’ve personally found that problematic content bothers me EXTRA when I feel like no one else seems to have noticed it (I’ve only heard you address the fatphobia in The Trees). I had a similar experience with The Overstory by Richard Powers - I had only heard glowing reviews, so I was all the more distracted and disturbed by the super problematic disability rep in the book. Like, his nature writing is gorgeous but describing a disabled character as an “emaciated Ent” is deplorable.
