#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon Shrimps and Sink Pits - my #bookreview for #Seascraper by #BenjaminWood on my #bookblog now. I read this for #NovNov25 #NovellasinNovember #histficreadingchallenge #2025NewReleaseChallenge and #6DegreesofSeparation for December! #FridayFiction #FictionFriday

http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2025/11/21/shrimps-and-sink-pits/

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon TCL's #CCSpin #42 Book Review - From Lovers to... ? My #bookreview for "My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather. #ccwhatimreading #Beatthebacklist #TheClassicsClub #NovNov25 #NovellasInNovember

http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2025/11/13/tcls-ccspin-42-book-review-from-lovers-to/

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/

#NovNov22 #Jans2022readinglist #Books #BookReview #JulianBarnes #TheSenseOfAnEnding

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.

#NovNov22 #NovellasInNovember #APaleViewOfHills #Books #BookReview

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/

#books #novnov22 #nonfictionnovember