Two #WaferThinBooks by Alexander Kluge:
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I wonder if Neil Paterson knew about her? It’s not unlike the plot of his novel THE CHINA RUN (voted Book of the Year in 1948 by Somerset Maugham). Although fictional it’s often mistaken for a true story – & at just 96 pages would be a great candidate for #WaferThinBooks @neglectedbooks.com
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One of several entertaining #WaferThinBooks by Roger Grenier.
See 🧵 for two more.
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#2 on Irina's list of tips is: "Befriend the novella."
Just a reminder that, although the #WaferThinBooks group is over, there's still a ton of novella recommendations, plus profiles of the 12 books we read, to be found at waferthinbooks.com.
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Book cover: THE CHINA RUN Neil Paterson Being the Biography of a Great-Grandmother 1829–1893 A tan cover with a line drawing of a nineteenth-century clipper ship, overlaid by a silhouette of the head and shoulders of a young woman
Neil Paterson’s first novel, THE CHINA RUN, was voted Book of the Year in 1948 by Somerset Maugham in the @nytimes.com. Although completely fictional it is often mistaken for a true story – & at just 96 pages would be a great candidate for #WaferThinBooks
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- @neglectedbooks.bsky.social Have you ever read the #waferthinbooks of Isabel Bolton?
The book pictured below is a ‘mosaic’ of three novellas, written when she was in her 60s.
I had never heard of her until reading Vivian Gornick’s (excellent) memoir An Odd Woman and the City.
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Exciting times for all those in the #WaferThinBooks club: Jen Craig will be appearing live on zoom at this month's session (Oct. 28/29) to discuss her (extraordinary!) Panthers & the Museum of Fire! You can sign up here:...
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Look for the #WaferThinBooks hashtag and visit WaferThinBooks.com
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I have Cockroaches in my #WaferThinBooks TBR stack.
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tagging in @neglectedbooks.bsky.social and @mitdasein.bsky.social on this #WaferThinBooks treasure trove!
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Marguerite Duras loved compressed timeframes and wrote at least three partial-day novels: The Square (1962); Ten-Thirty on a Summer Night (1962); and The afternoon of Monsieur Andesmas by Marguerite Duras (1964). All #WaferThinBooks.
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Probably the most Viennese of books is Zweig's memoir The World of Yesterday. After that, a Schnitzler or two (they're #WaferThinBooks). Or for something more obscure, Edith de Born's The House in Vienna.
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A selection of #WaferThinBooks from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social, courtesy of booknerd37 on Instagram. All guaranteed under 150 pages.
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A Baker's Dozen #WaferThinBooks from Valancourt Books, one of the best reissue publishers around.
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The #WaferThinBooks group will be discussing this in August. An expert in Schnitzler has recommended Lt. Gustl, both as an early example of stream of consciousness narration and for its link to why Schnitzler became a writer.
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Sure! This year I'm running a group reading #WaferThinBooks (≤150 pages), so a short book goes to the top of the stack.
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In my despair over the unlikeliness that I will ever own that 1924 edition, I inadvertently wrote the sad trombone sound.
Because I'm sad, get it?
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Oh lordy. Want want want want. 🧵🔥
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The novel is standing on a white cloth with little blue dots. The cover of the book is a light blue, with an insert: a collage showing a fawn with laser eyes and spiderlegs, standing on brown grass tufts, surrounded by pasted in fotos little furry animals.
My first entry in #waferthinbooks hashtag: Isabel Waidner, Corey Fah Does Social Mobility. 145 p. It's weird literary fiction, it's very funny, bringing together Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital, Bambi, Stranger Things, weird TV shows, the literary scene & language puns to great effect.
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Books from Magus Books, Ophelia's Books, Twice Told Books, Mercer Street Books, Lamplight Books, and Third Place Books, all in Seattle.
The final stack from three days of paying calls on Seattle bookstores. Not many neglected, but all certified #WaferThinBooks. Feel free to prioritize my TBR list with any recommendations.
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In Seattle for two hours and already collected a small stack of #WaferThinBooks from the legendary Magus Books in the U District.
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The #WaferThinBooks of Martin Guerre:
1. The Wife of Martin Guerre by Janet Lewis (Swallow, 116p.)
The famous tale of the man who returns after 8 years and claims to be Martin, husband of Bertrande, only to be proved an impostor, as told by the wife who accepted him as real.
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New: Ten Terrific #WaferThinBooks from Seagull Book's Library of German Literature
In which I admit my crush on the striking geometric covers of these Seagull books and my admiration for the quality and energy of the writing therein.
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New on WaferThinBooks.com: A look at six of the best neglected #WaferThinBooks I read during February.
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A new award for #WaferThinBooks and five titles to consider adding to your TBR stack.
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Some Melville House editor may simply have become fixated on books titled The Duel. (To be fair, the other four are legitimately novellas.)
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We lost power, so I went to a bookstore to avoid freezing to death. All #WaferThinBooks (well, Eve Babitz slightly over at 162p., but who's counting?)
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What a wonderful idea, a reading list of short but punchy books… time to dust off that library card! #waferthinbooks waferthinbooks.com/2023/09/10/a...
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3. At least four of the books—Nana, Luna, Vida, Lola (see the pattern?)—were translated into English by Victoria Reiter, who wrote three odd, interesting #WaferThinBooks of her own in the 1960s as Victoria Morhaim:
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