A novella is a book of fiction, shorter than most novels, but longer than most short stories. The English word “novella” derives from the Italian novella meaning a short story related to true facts. Test your knowledge with our Wonderful Novella Literature Quiz! This post may contain affiliate links that earn us a commission at […]
Both an ambitious philosophical journey and a meditative portrait of spiritual growth amid trials and hardship Mountain Home picks up where Grace Zacaroli’s previous novel, The Carpenter and the Apprentice, leaves off. Here, an ex-soldier turned spiritual apprentice, Danat, embarks on a journey with the recently orphaned Solomon to find the boy’s paternal family. Two […]
There is something deeply unsettling about a woman who ends every YouTube episode with a cheerful wave and the words, “Good night, Mom!” while the rest of her life is disintegrating one secret at a time. That dissonance, that gap between the camera-ready smile and the rot underneath, is the beating heart of Want to […]
Somewhere in the pages of a self-help manual for aspiring murderers, there lies either the confession of a genuine serial killer or the most elaborate hoax Scotland Yard has ever encountered. That is the premise at the burning heart of How to Get Away with Murder by Rebecca Philipson, a debut novel that announces its […]
Synopsis: From 1948 to 1982 nothing was as high mileage as a turntable. The speed limit was set at 331/3 rpms to take a spin down a highway of tunes on a ten-inch vinyl LP (Long Play) record album. The turning point 1982 when Compact Discs began to put the albums in our attics and […]
The Rocking Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence was first published in July 1926, in Harper’s Bazaar and subsequently appeared in the first volume of Lawrence’s collected short stories. This post may contain affiliate links that earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. The Rocking Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence The […]
In Kin by Tayari Jones, two baby girls sleeping in side-by-side dresser drawers in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, grow into women whose lives diverge as sharply as a river splitting at its delta, yet whose hearts remain tangled in a knot neither time nor distance can undo. This is the kind of novel that settles into your […]
A beautifully poignant novel about a sixteen-year-old’s experience as a military kid who must confront—and heal—tragedy in her family Merci is an Army kid, with both parents serving active-duty military. Because her mother is often deployed longer, Merci and her dad spend more time together and develop a close relationship by kayaking, connecting over art, […]
A collection that feels like a held breath, an ache that time does not heal but instead becomes something we learn to walk alongside “the daily sun and moon of being / a husband, a dad, a grandfather, / all of it seeming to demand a sea wall / of composure against an ocean of […]
The rare wellness book that earns a skeptic’s shelf space. Think Like an Herbalist sits squarely on the “practical wellness” shelf, where anecdote, folk tradition, and selective research mingle. What follows is a cultural and textual review, not a clinical guide, but a down-to-earth study. South understands her audience; she knows her readers are exhausted […]