the novella challenge
Tuesday, 25 March 2008

I know another challenge... but I was going to read these anyway so why not participate? Using the definition that a novella is a story consisting roughly of 100-250 pages, pick 6 novellas to read between April and September 2008. And hey prizes are involved! To sign up and/or to get a list of novellas click here.

Completed novellas are in red.

01 : The Passion . Jeanette Winterson
02 : The Uncommon Reader . Alan Bennett (review)
03 : The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie . Muriel Spark (review)
04 : Shopgirl . Steve Martin
05 : Written on the Body . Jeanette Winterson
06 : Death in Venice . Thomas Mann

Extra Credit :
07 : The First Century After Beatrice . Amin Maalouf (review)
08 : One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich . Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
09 : The Reader . Bernard Schlink
10 : The Sorrows of Young Werther . Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
11 : The Outsider . Albert Camus (review)
12 : The Lonely Londoners . Sam Selvon
13 : A Room With a View . E.M. Forster
14 : The Thirty-Nine Step . John Buchan
15 : The Postman Always Rings Twice . James M. Cain

(and I'm sure I'll be adding more)

. listening . life uncommon . jewel . spirit .

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posted by Ashleigh @ 14:49,

1 Comments:

At 26 March 2008 at 02:40, Blogger Danielle said...

You've probably heard of Hesperus Press? They're wonderful and their books would be perfect for this challenge. They are all quite short--some are story collections and others are novellas. I've started accumulating them. I should read one (in the spirit of the challenge, without actually joining).

 

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