Monthly Archives: January 2010
The Secret River – Kate Grenville
You know when you have a book that you have had for ages and ages, everyone has told you that “you simply must read it” and yet you haven’t? We have all got some of these on our TBR’s I … Continue reading
Filed under Canongate Publishing, Kate Grenville, Review
Simon’s Bookish Bits #6
Is it Saturday already? This week seems to have sped by. Anyway welcome to the latest of my Bookish Bits today I don’t have a link of the week I have a few, I look back over January at my … Continue reading
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
So it was a fortnight ago that I thought I was about to commit a sacrilegious act here on Savidge Reads by admitting that I wasn’t a great fan of ‘Mrs Dalloway’ and that whilst I had respect for Woolf’s … Continue reading
Filed under Penguin Books, Penguin Classics, Virginia Woolf
Precious – Sapphire
I am one of those people who likes to read a book before I see the film and so with a planned visit to the cinema to see ‘Precious’ this weekend I thought that I would read the book, originally … Continue reading
Filed under Books of 2010, Books To Film, Review, Sapphire, Vintage Books
Savidge Reads Grills… Xiaolu Guo
I always get excited at the prospect of a Savidge Reads Grills as I love getting to know authors better. It makes it even more exciting when its an author that you adore and today I have the pleasure of … Continue reading
Filed under Savidge Reads Grills..., Xiaolu Guo
A Poetic Costa Winner…
I have a Savidge Reads Grills going up within the next few hours which links to yesterdays post but seeing the Costa winner before I went to bed provided me with an interesting and enquiring interlude. So I will leave you all … Continue reading
Filed under Book Thoughts
Blacklands – Belinda Bauer
Despite my annoyance last week I decided I would give the second read a whirl as I already owned a copy and see what it was all about, in part to be fair to the show that aired again last night … Continue reading
Filed under Belinda Bauer, Review, Transworld Publishing
Not The TV Book Group
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there was a book group where you could talk about a book with people all over the world for a whole day? Well odd you should all be thinking that as it seems there is … Continue reading
Filed under Book Group, Book Thoughts, Not The TV Book Group
Simon’s Bookish Bits #5
As you can see I decided in the end that I would number my Bookish Bits, I know its nice to get a taster of what’s coming however you now have no idea and so you just have to pop … Continue reading
Filed under Book Thoughts, Give Away, Simon's Bookish Bits
Faceless Killers – Henning Mankell
I mentioned on Saturday that I have been really enjoying the BBC series of Wallander adapted from the Henning Mankell series. I have however been leaving watching Faceless Killers as I wanted to read the book first. Well finally I … Continue reading
Filed under Books To Film, Henning Mankell, Review, Vintage Books
Library Loot & Temptation Test
I was unsure how to use the library with my book buying ban as it doesn’t really stick to my ‘reading through the books I own’ goal. However after some thought I decided that not only would this be helpful … Continue reading
Filed under Book Thoughts, Haruki Murakami, Muriel Spark, Virginia Woolf
Timoleon Vieta Come Home – Dan Rhodes
When I read Gold all the way back in 2008 not only did I thoroughly enjoy it and laugh a lot I also got very excited about the author Dan Rhodes. It has somehow taken me almost a year and … Continue reading
Filed under Canongate Publishing, Dan Rhodes, Review
