One of my favourite prizes and always just in time for #NovellasInNovember 2026 20/40 Finlay Lloyd Prize shortlist announced anzlitlovers.com/2026/10/03/2...
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October 2, 2026 at 11:23 PM
One of my favourite prizes and always just in time for #NovellasInNovember 2026 20/40 Finlay Lloyd Prize shortlist announced anzlitlovers.com/2026/10/03/2...
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
November 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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
November 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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
November 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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
#NonficNov
#NovNov25 #Nonfiction November and #Novellas in November 2025: recap wordsandpeace.com/2025/11/28/n...
#NovNov25 #Nonfiction November and #Novellas in November 2025: recap wordsandpeace.com/2025/11/28/n...
Nonfiction November and NovellasinNovember 2025: recap
#NonficNov #NovNov25 November is always a super busy month for book bloggers, and I only participate in three events! Yesterday, I published my recap for #scifimonth, so here is one today for Nonfi…
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November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
#NonficNov
#NovNov25 #Nonfiction November and #Novellas in November 2025: recap wordsandpeace.com/2025/11/28/n...
#NovNov25 #Nonfiction November and #Novellas in November 2025: recap wordsandpeace.com/2025/11/28/n...
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
November 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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
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
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/3a9743bc-7c35-4d09-8fca-498307955f20?redirect=true
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/3a9743bc-7c35-4d09-8fca-498307955f20?redirect=true
Review by sarahmatthews - Loitering With Intent
Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
Read on audio
Narrator: Marjorie Anderson
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November 27, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/3a9743bc-7c35-4d09-8fca-498307955f20?redirect=true
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/3a9743bc-7c35-4d09-8fca-498307955f20?redirect=true
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
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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
#Nonficnov
#NovellasinNovember #Book #review:
The Secret Life of the #Owl wordsandpeace.com/2025/11/26/b... #nonfiction #birding #nature
#NovellasinNovember #Book #review:
The Secret Life of the #Owl wordsandpeace.com/2025/11/26/b... #nonfiction #birding #nature
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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November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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#NovellasinNovember #Book #review:
The Secret Life of the #Owl wordsandpeace.com/2025/11/26/b... #nonfiction #birding #nature
#NovellasinNovember #Book #review:
The Secret Life of the #Owl wordsandpeace.com/2025/11/26/b... #nonfiction #birding #nature
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
November 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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
November 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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
November 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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
November 22, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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
#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
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.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
#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
November 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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!
November 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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
November 18, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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
November 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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
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
November 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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
November 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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
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?
#NovellasinNovember
Sex, lies, and Radio Shack.
So much for this one-novella-a-day-for-a-month plan, eh?
#NovellasinNovember
November 15, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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?
#NovellasinNovember
Sex, lies, and Radio Shack.
So much for this one-novella-a-day-for-a-month plan, eh?
#NovellasinNovember
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???
#NovellasinNovember
A really nice novella by the author of PERFUME, who has only written a few other works. Why is that, Patrick? Why???
#NovellasinNovember
November 15, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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???
#NovellasinNovember
A really nice novella by the author of PERFUME, who has only written a few other works. Why is that, Patrick? Why???
#NovellasinNovember
