Top Ten Short Books to Fall in Love With
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. At the weekend, Book Twitter was told that short books don’t sell, even if they are amazing. Many people were upset by this. I am a big fan of novellas…
Notes on Novellas
I’m still totally in love with Tor’s novellas, I would highly recommend to anyone feeling they don’t have much time to read right now. They are small packages with complex ideas or full to the brim with fun. I’ve read…
The Arrival of Missives
I’ve been putting off writing this book because the reason I loved it so much is somewhat of a spoiler. It’s a novella that packs a punch though, so I hugely recommend it even if this review ends up incoherent….
Short Reads, Short Reviews
This is pretty much a catch-up post for a bunch of comics and novellas I’ve read over the past few months. I find these hard to review fully sometimes without giving too much away, so here are some brief thoughts….
Strange Weather
I found Joe Hill’s collection of four novellas rather depressing, and I’m not sure I would have chosen to read them right now if I’d have known that. I’ve been spending time lately curating my social media in a way…
Grief is the Thing with Feathers
A family in London is faced with the death of the two boys’ mother, the husband’s wife. In the depths of their grief, a visitor arrives in the form of a giant crow. Grief is the Thing with Feathers is…
Every Heart a Doorway
Whatever happens after those children come home from their adventures in portal worlds? The trauma of living years in another world, going through puberty even, then being cast back into your earth-bound body, at the same age you left? C.S….
The Little Homo Sapiens Scientist
The Little Homo Sapiens Scientist is a short novella (or long short story) reworking The Little Mermaid with a modern twist. It follows a scientist who studies the atargati, an intelligent species that live in the depths of the ocean….
Down the Rabbit Hole
Read the World: Mexico Down the Rabbit Hole is both a story about a lonely boy who wants a pygmy hippo and a glimpse into the world of a drug lord. Tochtli lives with his father in a secluded and…
…And a Happy New Year?
…And a Happy New Year? is a follow-up special to the Spinster Club trilogy and therefore this review may contain spoilers for the previous books. It’s the first time since the girls left for college that the Spinster Club has…
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