Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, the highly acclaimed German author and art collector, known for his renowned autobiographical novel, Das Boot, has passed away at the age of 89. He died on late Thursday, from heart failure. He is survived by his wife,...
Archive - February 2007
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The book titled as 'Princess Masako: Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne', is facing controversies too. The book, which was released by Random House in December, is written by Ben Hills. It actually tells the life history of the 43-year-old...
'The Higher Power of Lucky,' by Susan Patron, which is also the winner of the Newbery Medal, this year, is facing a lot of troubles and tribulations. And it is all due to the occurrence of the word scrotum in the book. The use of the word, that too in...
If you are a reader of the classics too, then I am sure you have heard of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. If you are through with it, excellent, if you aren't let me guess the reason. Is it because of the 1500 pages or the confusing number of characters?...
After a long span of ten years, Arundhati Roy is planning to return to fiction writing once more. After winning the Booker Prize for her first novel, THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS, in 1997, she has almost spent a decade as one of the major social and...
Comic strip Archie's creator cartoonist Joe Edward is no more.
Joe Edwards, an artist who bags all the credit for the character of Li'l Jinx and Archie in my all time favorite Archie comics died on Feb. 1 at his New York home, after years of treatment for heart problems. He was 85.He started working on Archies...
The publication date for the last book, regarding the adventures of Harry Potter, the kid wizard was finally announced on 1st February. J. K. Rowling on her official website gave it as July 21. The book is named 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'. ...
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Writer / Director Cecil Castellucci’s first young adult novel, ‘Boy Proof’ came out spring 2005, in the same year, she was named as a Flying Start by Publisher’s Weekly.
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