The video of our discussion of April's #WaferThinBook , The Palimpsests by Aleksandra Lun, a panglossian comedy set in a Belgian aslyum written in Spanish by a Polish woman, is now available on YouTube:

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'VERDICT: It is a rare page-turner that sets readers to wondering who they are and why they are here.' An enthusiastic review in Library Journal for the Recovered Books reissue of MacDonald Harris's Mortal Leap from Boiler House Press.
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If you've read Ali Smith's Artful and found it as moving, baffling, amusing, intriguing, and thought-provoking as I have, please join the conversation on Wednesday, 15 May.

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Please join us on Monday, 29 April (Tues AM in Australia) for our next #WaferThinBook chat about Aleksandra Lun's panglossian comedy, The Palimpsests. (Ignore the shrieks from the treatment room.)

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Yasmina Reza lays it down: 'Subtext: you're not the whole world. There are things in their infinite variety, and then there's you, you episodic little piece of shit, and no one gives a fuck about you or your opinions.' (from Desolation, tr. Carol Brown Janeway)

Today's #WaferThinBook : Extenuating Circumstances by Eda Lord (1971, 161p.)
A deft comedy of surviving the Nazi occupation of France through community and cunning. As I wrote in 2021, it's much sunnier than Lord's own much more traumatic experiences.
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