This reminds me that from time to time I think about starting up a local in-person reading group called Men Reading Women, where we'd just read and discuss books by women. But would this be less useful than something open to everyone?

Today's #WaferThinBook : The Relation of My Imprisonment by Russell Banks (1983, 121p.)
Daniel Defoe meets the experimental novel. A 17th C. carpenter has been in prison for 12 years for the crime of making coffins. More complex than it gets credit for, it tends to split opinions.

Today's #WaferThinBook : Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka by William S. Wilson (1977, 144p.)
A striking, subversive collection of stories that a friend of mine once described as 'Joseph McElroy for people who can't read Joseph McElroy'--a joke only Joseph McElroy fans will get?

Ten #WaferThinBook candidates for the #1937Club . Simon and Kaggsy's semi-annual reading exercise is focusing on books from 1937 next week, so here are some suggestions to help you take part without overloading your TBR stack.

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In the annals of takedown reviews, I doubt anyone will top the drubbing Gertrude Trevelyan got from A.G. Macdonell for her novel War Without a Hero ('a book that makes a reviewer want to go out and shoot himself'):