Novella

I think I used that book on my Powell's bookstore book bingo for award winner, because This Is How You Lose the Time War also won a Hugo Award.

Amal El-Matar won the Hugo for Best Novella this year with The River Has Roots.

Oh, cool.

And Amal El-Matar read the acceptance speech for Alex E. Haro.

Oh, yeah, they must.

They must be good friends.

Yeah, this is how you lose the time or won the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 2019.

OK.

It was a review in a magazine called Literary Review.

And it's a review of a book called First Blossom in the Orchard, Earliest Stories, Stories, Novellas, Humoresques, 1880 to 1882 by Anton Chekhov.

Oh, yeah.

So...

I mean, maybe they're going for the opposite Costanza routine and just kind of getting by in week one, and now they're going to come out against Batman and look great.

But, boy, I thought they were going to fire Novella at halftime there.

Not good.

Appreciate the call, John.

So I would say if you are feeling intimidated, especially on the size of some of these books, because we all know that a fantasy novel can be a chonker.

N- the Best Novella category is also a lot of fun, but I read my way through the Best Novel category this year, and I think that, I really do think that there's, like, something for everybody there.

So talk to us about the experience of reading the Best Novel category because it's a commitment.

You're also reading a lot of books.

That was apparently a call.

Novella dropped that in the broadcast.

The sheriff has returned.

I loved that.