This was Cathy’s and my fourth year co-hosting Novellas in November. We’ve done our best to keep up with your posts, collected via four Inlinkz post parties. We had 52 bloggers take part this year, contributing a total of 175 posts. You can look back at them all here. See also Cathy’s wrap-up post.
Claire Keegan continued to get lots of love this year, and it was great to see people engaging with our weekly prompts and buddy reads, and cleverly combining challenges with German Lit Month, Nonfiction November and Beryl Bainbridge Reading Week. Other books highlighted more than once included Cheri by Jo Ann Beard, They by Kay Dick, Train Dreams by Denis Johnson and Two Lives by William Trevor.
We’d love to get your feedback about what worked well or less well this month…
- Did you like having the prompts? Or would you rather go back to themes?
- Was it good to have a choice of buddy reads? Or do you prefer having just one?
- Did Inlinkz work okay for hosting the link-up?
Thank you all for being so engaged with #NovNov23! We’ll see you back here next year.
Bookish Beck = Rebecca Foster. American transplant to England. Freelance proofreader and book reviewer.
Bookish Beck 
Hi I’m wondering if I missed seeing where all posts/comments on the buddy reads can be found. I only saw your post about A Room of One’s Own and would be glad to find there’s a place to read everyone’s thoughts in one spot.
Thank you for always adding to my TBR pile!
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They’ll be dispersed through the link parties based on when people reviewed them and added their posts in. Here’s a few others that I find by scanning through:
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Thank you. I will certainly read through these.
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It took me a moment to find these as well. At first, I only clicked on the link in Rebecca’s first paragraph here, I didn’t see that, on the page that loads from that link, there are different weeks listed, and clicking on each week’s links took me to the lists of participants’ reviews. It’s quite browse-able from that point and I like the little image that shows for each separate post.
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Thanks for hosting!!
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No worries, it’s a pleasure!
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Thanks to both you and Cathy for another great November, Rebecca.
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Thanks for all the great novellas you put on our radar throughout the year!
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I really must take part in this next year. Thanks to you both.
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Please do! You have nearly a year to get your stack together 😉
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We just read a short novel by Alan Garner “Treacle Walker” – very impressive.
Keep well
The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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I didn’t care for that one. But many loved it! The Booker Prize has recognized a lot of novellas just in the past two years.
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I enjoyed doing it, although I forgot to do the Linkz after my first one so I don’t expect they were all recorded (which is fine: my fault!). I ignore the prompts because I was helping run and doing the prompts for NonFiction November but it felt fine to do that. And I liked finding out about a new book to look out for with the reviews of the Maroo I saw! Well done on a great month!
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Thank you! I think I remembered to add a couple more of yours. There was the Clifton and then the one you photographed on the bus? I’m sorry if I missed any. I’m pleased you discovered a new book you’d like to read.
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A Maya Angelou celebration and The Blister which I photographed by the sea. If the Linky is still open I’ll add them tomorrow!
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Ah, sorry, it closed yesterday at noon. You can leave them as comments on the starting post: https://bookishbeck.com/2023/10/25/novellas-in-november-leave-your-links-here/
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It’s a great reading event, I will certainly be back next year!
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Thanks for hosting! It was a great event!
I’m good with either prompts or themes. No preference.
I’m good with a choice of buddy reads or just one. No preference.
Inlinkz worked great!
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What a busy month for you: I’m glad it was so worthwhile!
I only added my first post and haven’t yet finished writing my second (which was stalled, along with MARM, while I recover from feeling poorly) but I definitely found some gems. Thanks for hosting. Cathy, too!
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