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  • Bookends has moved

    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!
    Posted to Bookends (Weblog) Posted by sadmin on 09-30-2009
  • Thursday afternoon books quiz - 19

    ... 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...
    Posted to Bookends (Weblog) Posted by Samanth Subramanian on 09-10-2009
  • Friday evening honour roll - 18

    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...
    Posted to Bookends (Weblog) Posted by Samanth Subramanian on 09-04-2009
  • Thursday afternoon books quiz - 18

    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...
    Posted to Bookends (Weblog) Posted by Samanth Subramanian on 09-03-2009
  • Friday evening honour roll - 17

    A thickly populated honour roll today, with a number of people also cracking the theme. Divya Anand mistook Roald Dahl for Kerouac; Prasanna Walimbe mistook him for Lewis Carroll. A couple of others got two out of four answers right. 1. Which famous literary character was probably as crazed as his name...
    Posted to Bookends (Weblog) Posted by Samanth Subramanian on 08-21-2009
  • Friday evening honour roll - 16

    Two people made it to our honour roll this week, and G. Sreekanth missed out on just the last question. 1. A. Oliver Twist , by Charles Dickens 2. A. Shakuntalam , by Kalidasa 3. A. Hamlet . This is Ophelia drowning herself, as depicted in a painting by John Everett Millais 4. A. Rubaiyat , by Omar Khayyam...
    Posted to Bookends (Weblog) Posted by Samanth Subramanian on 08-14-2009
  • Thursday afternoon books quiz - 16

    The quiz goes up a little belatedly today, but we have a uniquely themed quiz in store for you. Below are a series of paintings depicting various scenes / characters / themes in works of literature. So given the painting, just give me the name of the book. 1. 2. 3. 4. As always, email your answers in...
    Posted to Bookends (Weblog) Posted by Samanth Subramanian on 08-13-2009
  • Friday evening honour roll - 15

    A sparse honour roll this week, with only two people getting all five answers correct. Oddly enough, Midnight's Children seem to give some people trouble; the blanked-out words, of course, correspond to the title of the book. 1. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly...
    Posted to Bookends (Weblog) Posted by Samanth Subramanian on 08-07-2009
  • Thursday afternoon books quiz - 15

    We had a first-lines quiz before, which proved to be quite popular, so we're going to do a last-lines version this week. Given the last sentence of a famous book, name the book. 1. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." 2. "Before reaching...
    Posted to Bookends (Weblog) Posted by Samanth Subramanian on 08-06-2009
  • Friday evening honour roll - 14

    Plenty of entrants into the honour roll today, and Ashwin Prabhu, I am sure, would have made it as well if not for the fact that YouTube is blocked from his office computer. 1. According to one version, which literary character was given his / her name after the author saw a marquee listing for this...
    Posted to Bookends (Weblog) Posted by Samanth Subramanian on 07-31-2009
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