Novellas

Bright Blue Miracle, by Becca Wilhite

May 16, 2011

Title: Bright Blue Miracle Author: Becca Wilhite Pages: 173 Originally Published: 2009 Format I Read: Paperback Publisher: Shadow Mountain Rating: ____________________________ In case you didn’t hear, May is Utah Author Month! Becca Wilhite, author of Bright Blue Miracle and other books, is a Utah author. I read this little book a few months ago at [...]

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Rape: A Love Story, by Joyce Carol Oates

March 27, 2010

Title: Rape: A Love Story Author: Joyce Carol Oates Pages: 154 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Copyright: 2004 Format: Paperback Rating: ____________________________ I picked this one up, largely because of Trish’s review. Also, I’d heard that it was going to be made into a movie. Finally, how could I resist such a provocative title? Here’s what [...]

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Amsterdam, by Ian McEwan

September 23, 2008

Again, I was able to coordinate my reading with my travels. I read this book in between airport stops in Amsterdam. I love it when that happens. As it turns out though, Amsterdam primarily takes place in England. It starts out with two men, friends, at a funeral of their former lover. Clive is a [...]

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Stardust, by Neil Gaiman

July 20, 2008

Stardust, first published in 1999, won a Mythopoeic Award and has since been made into a hit movie. FOR THE FUTURE READER – A REVIEW Stardust is a short novel (or novella) that covers the journeyings of Tristran Thorn. Born of a short liaison between his father, a citizen of Wall, England, and his mother, [...]

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The Fires, by Alan Cheuse

July 6, 2008

The Fires, by Alan Cheuse is a collection of two novellas or two short stories, depending on how you define “novella” and “short story.” (I’m counting the entire book as a novella for the Novella Challenge.) In any case, the two stories, “The Fires” and “The Exorcism,” both share themes of death, loss, cremation, fire, [...]

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On Chesil Beach, by Ian McEwan

June 18, 2008

On Chesil Beach, by Ian McEwan, is the best book I’ve read in a while. It was beautiful and breathtaking and melancholy and almost perfect. (I include the “almost” because it didn’t do my laundry.) The novella takes place in 1962 on Edward and Florence’s wedding night. While the foregoing sentence is technically true, it [...]

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Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann

May 21, 2008

Knocking another one down for the novella challenge, I finished Death in Venice this evening. I’m not sure what exactly I was expecting when I choose this story, but it certainly wasn’t the tale of a respected older writer gentleman who falls in love with a fourteen year-old demigod boy and eventually dies of cholera [...]

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The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho

May 7, 2008

I’m not quite sure how to go about reviewing this fable of a book. Let’s start with the basics: Title: The Alchemist Author: Paulo Coelho (translated by Alan R. Clarke) Date Published: 1993 Pages: 167 Genre: Fiction?? (Borders has all of Coelho’s books shelved under “Metaphysical Studies”) My Favorite Quotes “Now I’m beginning what I [...]

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