Everything Calls for Salvation | Daniele Mencarelli #NovNov

'I've lost my soul, Mary! Help me, my little Madonna!' Black and more black. This must be death. The two novellas I've read this month so far have been sad little numbers about illness. The first was cancer (Cheri by Jo Ann Beard) and now this autofiction foray into mental health, depression and psychiatric wards. … Continue reading Everything Calls for Salvation | Daniele Mencarelli #NovNov

The Swimmers | Julie Otsuka #USAnovella

Opening Lines: The pool is located deep underground, in a large cavernous chamber many feet beneath the streets of out town. Some of us come here becasue we are injured, and need to heal. We suffer from bad backs, fallen arches, shattered dreams, broken hearts, anxiety, melncholia, anhedonia, the usual aboveground afflictions. For about a … Continue reading The Swimmers | Julie Otsuka #USAnovella

Pointed Roofs | Dorothy Richardson #Readalong

Miriam left the gaslit hall and went slowly upstairs. In my very first spur-of-the-moment bookish decision of 2022, I decided to join in #PilgrimageTogether. It popped up on my Twitter radar at the end of last year. It's aim, to read all thirteen novels in the Pilgrimage series written by Dorothy M. Richardson. My aim … Continue reading Pointed Roofs | Dorothy Richardson #Readalong