For the final day of #NovellasInNovember Adania Shibli’s MINOR DETAIL is a stark novella set between 1949 and the present, pairing a clinical first section detailing a murder committed by Israeli soldiers, with a second half in which a Palestinian woman methodically retraces that crime #BookSky

Day 29 of #NovellasInNovember is Eric Vuillard’s THE ORDER OF THE DAY, a taut, acidic reconstruction of the events that eased Hitler’s rise to power. A book about people convincing themselves that appeasement is prudent rather than cowardly #BookSky #LitFic #Reading

Day 28 of #NovellasInNovember is THE COUNTRY WILL BRING US NO PEACE by Matthieu Simard. After the death of their infant son, Simon and Marie move from Montreal to a remote village, hoping the countryside will soothe their grief. Instead, the silence sharpens it #BookSky #Horror #Reading #LitFic

Day 27 of #NovellasInNovember is SNOW COUNTRY by Yasunari Kawabata which follows an affair between Shimamura, a detached Tokyo intellectual, and Komako, a young geisha in a remote mountain hot-spring town. A meandering slow burn plot with clean, elegant prose #BookSky #LitFic #Reading #Translation

#SciFiMonth 2025: last two reviews and recap #scifimonth 2025 has been a blast! Let me present two last scifi I read, and then we’ll look at all that happened this month: 📚 Summer Frost, by Blake Crouch Science-fiction novella 2019 85 p…

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Review by sarahmatthews - Loitering With Intent Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark Read on audio Narrator: Marjorie Anderson RNIB Talking...

Here’s my contribution to #NovellasInNovember - Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark, 1981, a wonderfully clever story where life imitates art in the literary world 💙📚 #NovNov25 #BookReview #BookSky #audiobook
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Day 26 of #NovellasInNovember is SEA OF INK by German author Richard Weihe. A delicate, fragmentary portrait of the 17th-century Chinese painter Bada Shanren, who survives the fall of the Ming dynasty and retreats into an almost monastic life of art and nature #BookSky #LitFic #Reading #Translation

Book review: The Secret Life of the Owl MY VERDICT: Everything you didn’t know about owls: their science, and their place in art and symbolism. Fascinating.

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Day 25 of #NovellasInNovember is Tove Jansson’s MOOMINLAND MIDWINTER, which sees Moomintroll unable to get back to sleep after waking up from hibernation. Adventures with Little My, Sorry-oo, and Hemulen ensue. Arguably one of Jansson’s most elegiac books #BookSky #Reading

Day 24 of #NovellasInNovember is PETER HUJAR's DAY in which the titular photographer tells all about his exploits across a single day - December 18, 1974 - among New York's demimonde, featuring Allen Ginsberg, Fran Leibowitz and Susan Sontag #BookSky #LitFic #Reading

Day 23 of #NovellasInNovember is THE FOLLOWING STORY by Cees Nooteboom which starts with our narrator mysteriously waking up in a Lisbon hotel room having gone to sleep the night before in his apartment in Amsterdam. A story of infidelity, love rivals, and unbelievable journeys ensues #BookSky

Days 20/21/22 of #NovellasInNovember are a triptych of compelling speculative stories by RIE QUDAN, BECKY CHAMBERS and OLGA RAVN featuring laconic AIs, adventures in somaforming, and semi-sentient spaceships #BookSky #SciFi

Shrimps and Sink Pits. Book Review for “Seascraper” by Benjamin Wood. Summary: "Thomas lives a slow, deliberate life with his mother in Longferry, working his grandpa’s trade as a shanker. He rises early to take his horse and cart to the grey, gloomy beach and scrape for shrimp, spending the afternoon selling his wares, trying to wash away the salt and scum, pining for Joan Wyeth down the street, and rehearsing songs on his guitar.

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon Shrimps and Sink Pits - my #bookreview for #Seascraper by #BenjaminWood on my #bookblog now. I read this for #NovNov25 #NovellasinNovember #histficreadingchallenge #2025NewReleaseChallenge and #6DegreesofSeparation for December! #FridayFiction #FictionFriday

Day 19 of #NovellasInNovember is IN THE CAGE by Henry James which follows an unnamed telegraphist working in a fashionable London neighbourhood who becomes involved in the clandestine relationship of two lovers when she comes across their messages #BookSky #reading

It’s a great collection. ‘Stop Your Women’s Ears With Wax’ was a favourite. Mantis also very good. I’m doing something similar with #novellasinnovember and it’s a really great way to broaden your reading horizons!

Day 18 of #NovellasInNovember is THE GOVERNESSES by Anne Serre which follows three governesses in an isolated country mansion as they prepare a party for their young male wards. An initially deceptively simple story which slowly becomes an unnerving fable about control and sexual desire #BookSky

Day 17 of #NovellasInNovember is MAMMOTH by Eva Baltasar, the final book in her triptych of novels about queer womanhood. This time our protagonist is a disenchanted young lesbian who, on a mission to rediscover herself, swaps her performative urban existence for a rural life of simplicity #BookSky

Reunion by Fred Uhlman Thank you to our hosts Bookish Beck and Cathy at 746 Books. Why not visit their blogs? It takes a lot of work to host an event like Novellas in November. Leave them a nice comment. My Interest I bo…

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Day 14 of #NovellasInNovember is BOTCHAN by Natsume Sōseki, a pugnacious story told in the first person which follows our eponymous character, a flighty and unruly child, who grows up and lands himself a job teaching maths in a secondary school where he antagonises everyone he meets #BookSky

Day 15 of #NovellasInNovember is THE FACES by Tove Ditlevsen, a haunting, short book about Lise, a children's book illustrator living in late 60s Copenhagen, whose mental health begins to slip to the point where she becomes severely paranoid and begins to see faces all around her #BookSky #LitFic

ANIMALS EAT EACH OTHER by Elle Nash

November Novella #10: ANIMALS EAT EACH OTHER by Elle Nash (2018)

Sex, lies, and Radio Shack.

So much for this one-novella-a-day-for-a-month plan, eh?

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THE PIGEON by Patrick Suskind

November Novella #9: THE PIGEON [Die Taube] by Patrick Süskind, translated by John E. Woods (1987)

A really nice novella by the author of PERFUME, who has only written a few other works. Why is that, Patrick? Why???

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Review: Menu of Happiness (Kamogawa Food Detectives Novel Book 3) by Hisashi Kashiwai, translated by Jesse Kirkwood My Interest Great food, great cat. Need I say more? I loved the first two books in this trilogy. I don’t always review series fiction, but this series is just so ME!  My reviews of the first …

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Day 13 of #NovellasInNovember is COLD NIGHTS OF CHILDHOOD by Turkish writer Tezer Özlü a lyrical auto-fictional account of the author's fight to survive depression and carve out her own path in 1950s and 60s Istanbul #BookSky #LitFic

TCL’s #CCSpin #42 Book Review – From Lovers to… ? Book Review for “My Mortal Enemy” by Willa Cather. Summary: "Willa Cather's protagonist in My Mortal Enemy is Myra Henshawe, who as a young woman gave up a fortune to marry for love—a boldly romantic gesture that became a legend in her family. But this worldly, sarcastic, and perhaps even wicked woman may have been made for something greater than love.

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Day 12 of #NovellasInNovember is PNIN by Vladimir Nabokov, his 13th book and 4th written in English. The story follows Timofey Pnin, a Russian assistant professor in his 50s living in the United States as he muses on his past luck and losses in WWII Europe and Revolutionary Russia #BookSky #LitFic

Day 11 of #NovellasInNovember is THE PALM-WINE DRINKARD by Amos Tutuola, my intro to Nigerian literature 25 years ago today. A quest story told in dialect & drawing heavily on Yoruba folklore, we follow the titular drunkard as he travels through Dead's Town in search of his deceased tapster #BookSky

Day 10 of #NovellasInNovember is CLASS TRIP by Emmanuel Carrère which follows Nicolas, an introverted ten year old on his school ski trip. Making friends is the least of his problems as he begins to suspect that his father might be behind the recent disappearances of several children #BookSky

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Pride and Desire: Dominion — a poetic dark romance of faith, sin, and redemption.
A tale of beauty born from restraint, and love shaped by devotion.

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I’ve got an unexpectedly quiet afternoon as the boys got last minute tickets to see Crystal Palace…so I’m starting on Loitering With Intent by Muriel Spark for #NovellasInNovember and it’s very amusing so far! #NovNov25 #bookSky