September 2009 - Posts - Bookends

September 2009 - Posts

Bookends has moved

Posted by sadmin at 
Bookends along with all of Livemint's blogs, has moved to a new Wordpress platform. So visit http://blog.livemint.com/bookends for more book related news, off the cuff links and the weekly Thursday books quiz. Also update your RSS feeds and tell all your friends! Share this post: email it! | del.icio.us! | digg it! | newsVine!

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Moving

Posted by Samanth Subramanian at 
As I'd mentioned in my last post, Bookends has moved to a spanking new location: http://blog.livemint.com/boookends . Please do visit -- two new posts today, including on the first review of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol -- and bookmark the new URL. All future posts will be put up there. Share this post: email it! | del.icio.us! | digg it! | newsVine...

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Thursday afternoon books quiz - 19

Posted by Samanth Subramanian at 
... is actually available here . This is a new WordPress platform that Mint will be gradually adopting for its blogs, over the next few days. It should be a lot more flexible as far as what we're posting, and most importantly, it is a lot more orange. So please, ladies and gents, head over to the new Bookends and send in your answers to this week's...

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Off-the-cuff links: What's in the next Dan Brown book?

Posted by Samanth Subramanian at 
New York magazine goes at least part of the distance towards answering that question, in a very entertaining interview with Dan Burstein, editor of Secrets of The Widow’s Son , a book that tries to figure out what Brown's The Lost Symbol is about. Go read. I particularly loved this exchange: "Q. Why did it take him so long to write this one...

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Friday evening honour roll - 18

Posted by Samanth Subramanian at 
An absolute deluge of attempts on this quiz -- thank you all for your replies. Akshat Kumar, Anandhi Ramesh, Amrita, Siddharth Raman, and Anil Kothuri just missed getting a perfect seven. Here are the answers: 1. @ rbutl Wht do u mean u dnt giv a damn? Hell! Shd just hav stuck with @ AshleyW A. Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind . (The reference...

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Thursday afternoon books quiz - 18

Posted by Samanth Subramanian at 
Here's a horrific thought: What if many of our favourite literary characters tweeted? Given the (entirely made up, by me, right now) Twitter post, give me the fictional character who might have tweeted it: 1. @ rbutl Wht do u mean u dnt giv a damn? Hell! Shd just hav stuck with @ AshleyW 2. Enormous amt of attitude from the manservant re. new mauve...

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The history of that F word

Posted by Samanth Subramanian at 
No, not "firetruck." A new book, The F-Word by Jesse Sheidlower, promises to forever change the way we look at our swearing. Sheidlower, an editor-at-large for the Oxford English Dictionary, apparently "combed vast numbers of books, magazines, films, and other works for references to the most beloved, least printable word in the English...

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