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The Home by Penelope Mortimer (Novella a Day in May #26)Look, yes, I’m cheating again – The Home (1971) isn’t a novella, since it’s 230 pages, but I had a bit more time to...
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Maigret’s Revolver by Georges Simenon (Novella a Day in May #25)Whenever Karen and I run a club year, there is a Georges Simenon – and every time I comment that I must read something by him. And as...
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Friends and Relations by Elizabeth Bowen (Novella a Day in May #24)I was inspired by the latest Backlisted episode to pick up a Bowen – specifically the one they covered, Death of the Heart , but it turns...
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Novella a Day in May: Days 22 and 23Day 22: Grand Canyon (1942) by Vita Sackville-West I re-read Vita Sackville-West’s novella set in an alternative 1942 where Nazi Germany...
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Novella a Day in May: Days 20 and 21There’s a bit of a theme to the two novellas I’ve read in the past two days… or at least their titles. Day 20: The Year of...
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Novella a Day in May: Days 18 and 19Day 18: The Nymph and the Nobleman (1932) by Margery Sharp When I was in Hay-on-Wye last year, I stumbled across The Nymph and the Nobleman ,...
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Novella a Day in May: Days 16 and 17Day 16: Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes (1987) by Per Petterson T his 1987 book was translated from Norwegian by Don Bartlett in 2013,...
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A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence (Novella a Day in May #15)Wow. A Jest of God (1966) by Margaret Laurence is absolutely brilliant. I bought it in 2007, and 15 years later it has come off my shelf...
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Novella a Day in May: Days 13 and 14I’m watching Eurovision; I’m typing up thoughts about novellas. What a day. Day 13: Elizabeth Finch (2022) by Julian Barnes...
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Gentleman Overboard by Herbert Clyde Lewis (Novella a Day in May #12)When Brad of Neglected Books started recommending titles for a new series of reprints, from Boiler House Press, I knew we would be in for...
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The Rebecca Notebook by Daphne du Maurier – #DDMReadingWeek (Novella a Day in May #11)When I was looking at how to double up Novella a Day in May with Ali’s Daphne du Maurier Reading Week , there weren’t a lot of...
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Novella a Day in May: Days 9 and 10I will try to keep doing these daily, and I am reading novellas daily, but I had so little to say about Day 9 that I thought I’d better roll...
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Tea or Books? #104: Do We Care What Characters Dream? and William – an Englishman vs The Great FortuneOlivia Manning, Cicely Hamilton and dreams – welcome to episode 104 of ‘Tea or Books?’!...
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Novella a Day in May: Days 7 and 8I did read my novellas (…sort of) on days 7 and 8, but I didn’t write yesterday because I was in London overnight. (I saw the musical...
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In Pious Memory by Margery Sharp (Novella a Day in May #6)When Madame Bibi and I realised we both had In Pious Memory (1967) by Margery Sharp on our shelves, we decided to put it down for the same...
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Screens Against the Sky by Elleke Boehmer (Novella a Day in May #5)I bought Screens Against the Sky (1990) by Elleke Boehmer in 2008 – just weeks before I started my Masters, because Elleke was...
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Journey Through A Small Planet by Emanuel Litvinoff (Novella a Day in May #4)Oops, I keep cheating on this novella challenge – though today’s cheating was accidental, since I was about 30 pages into Journey...
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My Friend Says It’s Bullet-Proof by Penelope Mortimer (Novella a Day in May #3)I’m playing cold-or-Covid roulette at the moment – it would be unlucky to get Covid again so soon, but you never know –...
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William – an Englishman by Cicely Hamilton (Novella a Day in May #2)William – an Englishman (1919) by Cicely Hamilton isn’t really a novella, coming in at 226 pages, but I needed to reread it...
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Murder on the Second Floor by Frank Vosper (Novella a Day in May #1)I’ve done a few book-a-day projects – for 25 days, for Novella – but they’re all inspired by Novella A Day In May, which...
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Stuck in a Book’s Weekend MiscellanyHappy weekend – and, if you’re in the UK, happy long, bank holiday weekend. Hope you have a lovely one. I’ll be going to a...
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Project 24: Book 6Having rationed my book buying severely in the early days of the year, I have tumbled through my first six books quite quickly – even more...
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Four more #1954Club books I readLet’s rattle through some other books I read for the 1954 Club which possibly don’t warrant full reviews… they range from...
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The Native Heath by Elizabeth Fair – #1954ClubMy friend Barbara bought me a whole pile of Furrowed Middlebrow books a while ago, and one of them was The Native Heath by Elizabeth Fair...
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Lease of Life by Frank Baker #1954ClubFew things in life represent the triumph of hope over experience as much as my continued attempts to find an equal to Miss Hargreaves among...
