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I’m in meetings all day today here in Ottawa, so you get your news cafeteria style. Grab a tray and get in line.
- An “anonymous” female worker who had a skeezy publishing boss writes about “what it’s like for a girl” to work in the sector… the comments are worth a read too
- Footy fever drives sales of soccer books like a stadium chair through a police car window
- A foodie subplot in Meyer’s Tweenlight?
- Larsson’s widow is refusing to settle for the family’s offer of “sharing”
- Twitter has an interesting hashtag on the loose #booksthatchangedmyworld
- iPad uncensors some literary apps, including Joyce and Wilde graphic novels… about time
- The theatrical trailer for Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go… Looks more promising than I’d dared hope:|
Found a great little bookstore here in Ottawa that you should visit if you ever come to town: Perfect Books, with the motto “Fiercely Independent”. I bought Carol Ann Duffy’s new selected poems there. Nice place.
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June 17th, 2010 at 8:29 am
I agree, George: the NEVER LET ME GO trailer gives good tone. I’m cheering this movie on with the same clenched-fisted, tear-fighting intensity as my own child’s first steps…
June 17th, 2010 at 8:51 am
Me too. It’s amazing how intensely I feel about that book, years later. Problem is the book seems
so perfect it feels as though the only place to go with an adaptation is downhill.
June 17th, 2010 at 9:20 am
Not downhill…sideways, at best. Go hard with the “If I can prove I can love, can I be the exception?” line…as it appears they have done in the trailer. A smart decision.
June 21st, 2010 at 12:06 pm
Well, at least it’s Not My Sister’s Keeper as a film where apparently the ending is changed. Novels not in the same class, but the premise is depressingly similar.
July 26th, 2010 at 11:53 am
I just finished Never Let Me Go.
oh my.. what a moving piece of work. I might have to try to get out of Dodge to see this one, as it is doubtful that it will be shown here in bum…. nowhere.