It’s week one of Novellas in November and the theme is My Year in Novellas.
I mostly save my novella reading for November but a few have made my reading list since last year’s Novella November.
South and West by Joan Didion
The Most by Jessica Anthony
Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser
The Anthropologists by Aysegül Savaş
Breakwater by Marijke Schermer
My Brother Jaz by Gideon Haigh
I enjoyed all of these for different reasons but it’s The Most by Jessica Anthony that I reckon everyone should add to their #NovNov reading list.
Good to see Breakwater on your list. My copy of The Most arrived this week.
My turn for Seascraper came up at the library a couple of weeks back, took me just over one evening to dispatch it. I know that part of the country and Benjamin Wood is from the Merseyside area so I was a bit surprised that it read (to me) as if it was written by a visitor. Definitely a bildungsroman, the mum in the story is a great character. A winter read in an out-of-season hotel with the rain lashing down outside.
Also so far this year in novellas, lots of Japanese stuff, Audition, The Coast Road (no lasting impact), Eurotrash, and a few more. Clear must have been last year as I drop everything the minute a new Carys Davies comes out. To read for #NovNov, Tonio Kroger (a revisit to a text we did for A level German 50 years ago!) and some more Anita Brookner.
Good to hear about Seascraper – I’m looking forward to it.
I have just read Audition (I was disappointed) and reading Convenience Store Woman at the moment (kooky!). I loved Clear (one of my books of the year), and always a fan of Brookner despite feeling like I exhausted her list a few years back. Eurotrash on my list for November.
I’m planning My Year post soon! I never keep to schedules in November in particular. I have read two of yours, the de Kretser and Haigh. Both good but I must check into the one you recommend.
It’s almost impossible to keep up in November – I start the month well, and have posts scheduled but it usually falls to bits within two weeks 😀
I usually have a couple scheduled too but not even that this month though I have listed my novellas.
Theory & Practice definitely my favourite for the year, not that I usually notice whether or not I’m reading a novella.
I never really noticed the length of books either – I just read what drew me, however, since participating in Novellas in November I have been a bot more aware (and save some shorted books for November).
I will be reading The Most this month. I was also really impressed with Breakwater.
Well, you’ve certainly made The Most sound very tempting! Now I will have to check to see if we still have a copy at work or not.
I’ve noticed it popping up on quite a few bloggers’ lists, so I’m not alone!
I am not familiar with any of the novellas you have read. Like you I mostly read them in November. Although, lately, I do read a novella from time to time. Mostly one recommended by the blogging world. I do appreciate novellas more and more.