Pick-a-Shelf discussion

November Shelf is novella

What did you read? Are you left satisfied or wanting more?

read Down Among Sticks And Bones.

This was an interesting Novella. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and the story it held. While listening to it I couldn't help but think how much it reminded me much of Narnia. It can't wait to read more books of this series. It had mystery and magic and horror.

Foster by Claire Keegan
4 stars

This is a lovely book, beautifully written and poignant story. I was left a bit wanting more though, it was very short! It had a similar feel to her other well known novella - Small Things Like These.

Read for The Birthday Game
I nominate past-and-present

I enjoyed this month of reading mostly novellas, which I don't often do. I read:
Night of cake & puppets
Hana
When the tiger came down the mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle #2)
Down Among the Sticks and Bones
The Man Who Sold the Moon (by Cory Doctorow, not the old one by Heinlein)
The Dispatcher

I enjoyed them all, but the only one I liked enough to give 4* to was When the tiger came down the mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle #2).

I also tried to read Riot baby, but just couldn't get into it. I marked it DNF

I read Of Mice and Men and loved it, I gave it 5 stars. It started off slow and I wasnt sure if I would enjoy the rest, but I got so attached to the characters in such a short time. There may have been a tear or two at the ending.

I nominate horror.

I read The Word for World Is Forest 4 stars

Read for seriously serial
I nominate unreliable narrator

I read The Woman in Black (1983) by Susan Hill, a traditional supernatural story where a junior solicitor trying to sort through the papers left by the late Mrs. Drablow in her isolated Eel Marsh House gets more than he bargained for.

I found it entertaining and atmospheric, a quite straight forward Gothic novella that delivered what it promised. I would have enjoyed it even more, perhaps, with a shorter introduction, more pages about the town, the Drablows and their home, and more rounded explanations for some of the protagonist's choices.

Rating: 4 stars

Shelf nomination: Suspense

I am running a bit behind but I did finally read A Psalm for the Wild-Built. I gave it 5*.

I'm not big on SF but I really enjoyed this existential crisis of the futuristic human and the robot. Will most definitely follow up on this series.