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Category Archives: General

May 17, 2016
by Neelima
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Readers Can’t Digest-Week 84 (11-May to 16-May)

Hybrid booksellers on the increase 2. Amazon launches Amazon Video Direct 3. The Only Book Fair in the Asia Pacific region dedicated to Children’s Books 4. Translated fiction sells better in the UK than English Fiction 5. Beyoncé’s Lemonade turns … Continue reading →

Categories: General, News | Tags: Amazon, Beyonce, Hybrid bookstores, Shanghai Book Fair, translation | Permalink

April 28, 2016
by Neelima
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Jane Eyre and the Selfie@ Link Wanderlust

Karen Swallow Prior celebrates a book about selfhood in her essay Jane Eyre and the Invention of the Self  in The Atlantic. If you haven’t read Jane Eyre already, it is well worth your while. A book primarily read by … Continue reading →

Categories: General, Link Wanderlust | Tags: bicentenary, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, selfie | Permalink

April 26, 2016
by Neelima
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Readers Can’t Digest-Week 83 (19-April to 25-April)

1.Prince was writing a memoir before he died 2. Meena Kandasamy’s novel on abusive marriage to be published by Atlantic books in 2017 3. Pulitzer Winners, 2016 4. 8 million spin offs of GOT exist   5. 400 years of … Continue reading →

Categories: General, News | Tags: GOT, Meena Kandasamy, Prince, Pulitzer, Shakespeare | Permalink

April 19, 2016
by Neelima
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Readers Can’t Digest-Week 82 (12-April to 18-April)

1.Judi Dench appointed Bronte Society President   2.Hachette secures Pietsch perfect manga partner 3.AWP round-up 4.Have you used EasyWrite? 5.Middle-aged most prolific e-readers      

Categories: General, News | Tags: easywrite, Hachette, Judi Dench, manga | Permalink

April 7, 2016
by Neelima
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Anxiety and Bus Theory @ Link Wanderlust

Jessie Burton writes in her article Success, Creativity and the Anxious space about how 2015 was probably the best year of her life. A million copies of her book The Miniaturist were sold. For any aspiring writer, this sounds like … Continue reading →

Categories: General, Link Wanderlust | Tags: anxiety, depression, motivation, success | Permalink

March 7, 2016
by Jandré
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A Tribute to Umberto Eco

Could Umberto Eco be more different from Harper Lee? Perhaps in a Terry Pratchett novel, but not in real life! Umberto Eco was not an attention hog, but he was an extremely prolific writer! With a string of novels, non-fiction … Continue reading →

Categories: General | Tags: harper lee, The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco | Permalink

February 29, 2016
by Jandré
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A Tribute to Harper Lee

Usually we expect Friday the Thirteenth to be the day that brings bad news. In 2016 it is highly unlikely that any Friday the Thirteenth, or any other day, will eclipse the sad news of 19 February. On this day, … Continue reading →

Categories: General | Tags: Go Set a Watchman, harper lee, To Kill a Mockingbird | Permalink

February 22, 2016
by Jandré
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Google Books versus The Authors

Recently, The Guardian reported that various well-known, respected and successful authors have joined with the US Authors Guild in a lawsuit to prevent Google from adding books that are still under copyright from being added to the ever-growing collection of … Continue reading →

Categories: General | Tags: authors guild, Copyright, google books | Permalink

February 9, 2016
by punjacked
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Readers Can’t Digest – Week 74 (1-Feb to 7-Feb)

1. McDonald’s to give away children’s books with Happy Meals                     2. Spelling uses multiple parts of the brain, research shows                 3. Archie Comics Gives Away … Continue reading →

Categories: General | Tags: Amazon, Archie Comics, McDonald's, Speed reading | Permalink

February 8, 2016
by Neelima
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Ruskin Bond, Old Men and a Quiet American @ Talking Terrace Book Club in January 2016 (Part 2)

Did you visit our Talking Terrace Book Club post last week? You can read it here. Today we’ll look at the books my colleagues Srishti and Abhaya were reading. Srishti took us through an old story that she had read … Continue reading →

Categories: Book Club, General | Tags: Geetanjali Shree, Graham Greene, Ruskin Bond, Sahitya Akademi | Permalink

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