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Buy Buy or Bye Bye To The Bookshop… 22 Aug 2013 | 08:18 pm
I haven’t written this week, nor really read very much, because I have been mulling things over. I was going to write a huge angry rant on Monday but then I thought the better of it, people like the l...
The Quiet American – Graham Greene 18 Aug 2013 | 06:47 pm
And so a little belatedly we come to the second in my ‘Greene for Gran’ series and one I feel a little bit awkward about. In part because I feel a fool for struggling so long with such a short book an...
The Quiet Savidge… 18 Aug 2013 | 12:12 am
There are a lot of should have’s going through my mind today. I should have responded to all the lovely comments you have left. I should have written lots of reviews, one of which should have been of ...
Panic! aka Pre-empted Posts, Persephone’s, Point Horrors, Pressure and Procrastinating… 12 Aug 2013 | 07:50 pm
I do love a little bit of alliteration don’t you? Anyway today’s post is a bit of a ‘random updates’ sort of thing because over the weekend I got myself into a little bit of a tizzy (nice, different, ...
The Ministry of Fear – Graham Greene 10 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
For some reason I had got it into my head that ‘The Ministry of Fear’, my first read for Greene for Gran, was going to be something of a rather light hearted farce along the lines of ‘Our Man in Hava...
Greene For Gran Update… 9 Aug 2013 | 06:06 pm
So my plan for two posts went completely out the window yesterday, I am time poor at the mo, and you are only getting the one today. The response to my idea to start ‘Greene For Gran’, or if you are ...
The Breathers Between Books… 8 Aug 2013 | 12:49 am
I was desperately trying to write a blog that explained some things which reading ‘The Woman Upstairs’ brought to my attention reading habit wise and some thoughts that your comments (which I will res...
The Woman Upstairs – Claire Messud 5 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
As of next week on Monday’s something slightly different is coming to Savidge Reads. I had planned to start it today however I wanted to get my thoughts on Clare Messud’s ‘The Woman Upstairs’ out into...
I’m On A Wedding Weekend… 3 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
I have been really excited about this weekend all week as it is the wedding of my best friend Polly, who you will all I am sure know from the sadly now defunct Novel Insights, to her boyfriend of ten ...
Alex – Pierre Lemaitre 2 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
I teased you yesterday telling you that I was going to talk about a thriller that almost made ‘Gone Girl’ look tame, but what could it be? The book in question is ‘Alex’ by Pierre Lemaitre which is on...
