My last read for #NovellasInNovember - I didn't quite finish it in November because it demanded slow reading and reflection of me.

The Sense of an Ending is a story about the paradoxes of existence, the unreliability of memory and the way we curate our memories to tell a manipulated version of the story of our lives.

It's utterly brilliant.

https://thinkaboutreading.wordpress.com/2022/12/03/the-sense-of-an-ending/

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Is A Pale View of Hills a ghost story, or is it the true memory of a Japanese woman transplanted from Nagasaki to an anonymous village in England?

#KazuoIshiguro's debut novel introduces the writer we now know him to be, over a career of eight novels (so far). It's full of observations on Japanese life but also his bread and butter observations on alienation and being an outsider.

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https://thinkaboutreading.wordpress.com/2022/11/27/a-pale-view-of-hills/

The Philosophy of Libraries

I've had Packing My Library on my To Read pile for a while, but the #NovellasInNovember reading challenge gave me the impetus to pick it up.

I loved #AlbertoManguel's perspective on libraries, literature and reading. I relished the way he allowed his thoughts to wander off on certain topics, and the way these apparently disparate digressions all threaded together into a coherent whole.

https://thinkaboutreading.wordpress.com/2022/11/23/packing-my-library-an-elegy-and-ten-digressions/

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A review of #AngelaCarter's essay #Lovecraft and Landscape, read as short non-fiction for #NovNov #NovellasInNovember.
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Paranoid perspectives https://calmgrove.wordpress.com/2022/11/21/hpl5/

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Hunting monsters in alien crypts, lesbian subcultures in 1940s San Francisco, a people who use dreaming to solve problems, an unhappy marriage in the Chinese afterlife... I review 4 speculative novellas https://drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2022/11/21/four-speculative-novellas-tchaikovsky-klages-le-guin-and-cho-novellasinnovember-scifimonth/ #SciFiMonth #NovellasInNovember #amreading #fiction

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A Very Normal Man tells the curious tale of Giovanni Vivaldi, a clerk in the Ministry of Pensions, working towards his own retirement when a swift and shocking tragedy occurs.

The tragedy leads to a moment of decision that takes an unexpected turn, with Giovanni taking a brutal revenge on the perpetrator of the tragedy.

I loved it.

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https://thinkaboutreading.wordpress.com/2022/11/20/a-very-normal-man/

A review of #VitaSackvilleWest's short nonfiction 'Nursery Rhymes: an Essay' (1947) for #NovNov #NovellasInNovember.

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Appreciating the preposterous https://calmgrove.wordpress.com/2022/11/16/appreciating-the-preposterous/

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Review of #SayakaMurata's Convenience Store Woman for #NovNov's novellas in translation. #NovellasInNovember

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Inconvenient https://calmgrove.wordpress.com/2022/11/13/25525/

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"Life and a lover": my review of #VirginiaWoolf's classic novella (?) Orlando, half a century after first reading it.
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Life and a lover https://calmgrove.wordpress.com/2022/11/08/life-and-a-lover/

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