May’s Book: Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata Translated by Edward G. Seidensticker Published by Charles E. Tuttle (US) and Secker & Warburg (UK),…
April’s Wafer-Thin Books Discussion is Now Online
The video of April's discussion of Aleksandra Lun's The Palimpsests is now available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK7jXJP7fJc Books mentioned during the discussion: Canoes…
Ten Wafer-Thin Candidates for the #1937Club
Twice a year, book bloggers Karen Langley (Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings) and Simon Thomas (Stuck in a Book) sponsor a wonderful collaborative…
April’s Book: The Palimpsests by Aleksandra Lun
The Palimpsests by Aleksandra Lun, translated by Elizabeth Bryer Published by David R. Godine, 2019 From the publisher: Czeslaw Przęśnicki…
Ten Terrific Wafer-Thin Books from the German Library at Seagull Books
Seagull Books is a remarkable Kolkata-based publisher that has such a broad and diverse catalog of world literatures that it stretches…
February’s Neglected Wafer-Thin Books
I have steadily been reading neglected wafer-thin books since the start of this year's reading group, but I have been remiss…
Ten Wafer-Thin Looks at Death
One of the best-known of all wafer-thin books is also one of the greatest reflections on death in literature: The Death of…
March’s Book: The Endless Summer by Madame Nielsen
The Endless Summer by Madame Nielsen, translated by Gaye Kynoch Published by Open Letters, 2018. 148 pages. From the publisher: A…
Wafer-Thin Favorites from The Modern Novel
The Modern Novel is one of the most impressive book sites on the web, one I've followed and learned from for…
February’s Wafer-Thin Books Discussion is Now Online
The video of February's discussion of Willem Frederik Hermans' An Untouched House is now available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lJ2J6tBAnK0 Thanks to Joshua Rothes…