Eleven Years of Savidge Reads…
September 15, 2018 9:16 pm Eleven years ago today when I first hit a blog post here on Savidge Reads and looked at what has … Read more
Book Reviews
Desert Island Books – Rumaan Alam
Leave the World Behind Brooklyn-based author Rumaan Alam is one of the most disturbing and undeniable books I’ve read all year. A rapid exploration of … Read more
The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt by Andrea Bobotis – Reader Witch
Genre: literary fiction. ⭐️Stars from Goodreads: 3.9. ArsStars from me: 5. An absolutely stunning book was recently published! I am generally very picky about the … Read more
Savidge Reads at the Man Booker Prize 2018
October 16, 2018 4:41 pm So I was a total hobbyist and let the second half of the year go by and got a lot … Read more
Grey Boy Book Review – The Literary Edit
After the last Bondi Literary Salon of the year discussing Maggie O’Farrell’s undeniable Hamnet, I bought a copy of Greyboy by Cole Brown. I had … Read more
Do you notice how far you are from your recent perception? – Reader Witch
I’ve read some reviews that I wrote a few months ago and although I remember writing them and remembering feeling satisfied with the final texts, … Read more
The Women’s Prize Longlist 2019
March 4, 2019 12:07 pm What better excuse to break the cobwebs of this blog than by announcing the 2019 longlist, which is probably my … Read more
Desert Island Books – Cole Brown
I was lucky enough to meet Cole Brown on the day I finished his brilliant memoir, Greyboy. I was on my way to Gertrude & … Read more
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell – Reader Witch
Genre: surreal patchwork. ⭐️Stars from Goodreads: 3.8. ⭐️Stars from me: 4 mainly, but 1.5 for the last part. About the book Nothing about The Old … Read more
The Women’s Prize for Fiction Shortlist 2019
April 28, 2019 11:03 pm It is here! The longest of sixteen books I mentioned last month (when I mentioned blowing the cobwebs off on … Read more