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Visual Friday: Diverse Women Writers – Toni Morrison

April 5, 2019 by Neelima | 0 comments

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November 5, 2018
by Neelima
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Mise en abyme, Polymaths and Trains @ BYOB Party in Sep 2018 (Part 6)

Samarth got the BYOB Party back into fiction mode by deconstructing The Counterfeiters by French novelist André Gide. This immersive book hosts multiple characters and points of view as well as various plotlines including Mise en abyme (a novel in a … Continue reading →

October 2, 2018
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Readers can’t Digest-Week 201 (26-Sep to 2-Oct)

1. Paul McCartney announces picture book, Hey Grandude 2. Carnegie medal promises immediate action over lack of diversity 3. ‘A Little Life’ Comes to the Stage 4. The 2018 Goldsmiths prize for fiction shortlist 5. Jean-Claude Arnault, man at centre … Continue reading →

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Yiddish, Right to Education, and Elephants @ BYOB Party in May 2018 (Part 6)

Apurba is fond of reading remote narratives about obscure places and people. This time she chose a Hebrew writer called Isaac Bashevis Singer who wrote in Yiddish. Love and Exile is the story of Singer’s own life from his childhood … Continue reading →

May 1, 2018
by Neelima
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Readers can’t Digest-Week 182 (25-April to 1-May)

1. Ibrahim Nasrallah Wins 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2. Last chance for UK authors to win European Book Prize before Brexit 3. Kobo is releasing an ebook series on the royal wedding 4. Google Launches Talk … Continue reading →

December 4, 2017
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Suspect X and Miniaturist Art @ BYOB Party in November 2017 (Part 2)

There was a crime thriller edge to the BYOB Party this time. Kshitija spoke about a unique crime thriller called The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino. The reason for its uniqueness is that the book is no conventional whodunit … Continue reading →

October 10, 2017
by Neelima
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Readers can’t Digest-Week 153 (4-October to 10-Oct)

1. Nobel prize in literature 2017: Kazuo Ishiguro 2. Melania Trump book donation rejected by school librarian 3. 2017 National Book Award finalists revealed 4. Dolly Parton launches nursery reading programme Leonard Cohen’s last book, finished ‘days before his death’, due out next year … Continue reading →

September 4, 2017
by Neelima
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Mr. Biswas @ BYOB Party in July 2017 (Part 3)

Sourajit, a scientist working at ISRO on the moon mission talked about another Nobel Prize winner’s work. A House for Mr. Biswas is V. S. Naipaul’s masterpiece. The story is biographical — an unflattering farcical tragedy of his own father, … Continue reading →

December 13, 2016
by Neelima
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Readers can’t Digest-Week 111 (7-December to 13-December)

1.Fidel Castro worked on Gabriel Marquez’s manuscripts 2.Maths book wins educational book prize 3.Publishing Industry shocked by demonetization of currency in India 4.Salman Rushdie leads World Human Rights Day Protest for Chinese writers 5.Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech

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Readers Can’t Digest – Week 38 (11-May to 17-May)

1. Virgin Books has acquired the UK and Commonwealth rights to Wildflower, a collection of autobiographical essays by actress and producer Drew Barrymore. 2. DC Debuts Line of Super Hero Graphic Novels, Merchandise for Girls … Continue reading →