The National Post profiles the top three rare book collectors from a contest to find Canada’s best book collectors under the age of 30.
Winner - Charlotte Ashley
2nd place - Vanessa Brown
3rd place - Naseem Hrab
The National Post profiles the top three rare book collectors from a contest to find Canada’s best book collectors under the age of 30.
Winner - Charlotte Ashley
2nd place - Vanessa Brown
3rd place - Naseem Hrab
60 Years Later, Coming though the Rye, the unauthorized sequal to JD Salingers classic has been halted perminantly as a US Judge rules that the book borrows too heavily on Catcher without offering parody or critique.
Colting’s defence claimed the book was a parody, and a literary critique of the original, but US District Judge Deborah Batts yesterday rejected these arguments, issuing a 37-page written ruling which said the book’s narrative “largely mirrors that of Catcher”, and that it had “taken well more from Catcher, in both substance and style, than is necessary for the alleged transformative purpose of criticising Salinger and his attitudes and behaviour”. Mr C, meanwhile, “has similar or identical thoughts, memories, and personality traits to Caulfield, often using precisely the same or only slightly modified language”. She pointed to the fact that both characters love to use the words “goddam”, “phony”, “crumby”, “lousy”, “hell”, “bastard”, and the phrase “kills me”.
Read our review of 60 Years Later, Coming though the Rye
The Guardian reports that the British Government has stopped sales of The Terrorist Hunters, a book detailing the fight against Islamic extremism. The book’s author is Britain’s former head of counter-terrorism, and retired Scotland Yard assistant commissioner, Andy Hayman.
Hayman, gives a behind-the-scenes account of the 7 July attacks, the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes and the fight against terror.
The National Post’s blog “The Afterword” features an interview with Canada’s first national book-collecting contest winner, Charlotte Ashley. The contest, sponsored by The Bibliographical Society of Canada (BSC), the Antiquarian Booksellers of Association of Canada (ABAC) and the Alcuin Society, “was created … to encourage young Canadians to collect books and study the discipline of researching and writing bibliographies.”
Ashley won the contest for her collection The Works (and Quirks) of Alexandre Dumas pere and was presented with $2,500.
Precious Ramotswe, leading character of Alexander McCall Smith’s The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series is “writing” a cookbook to share her favourite recipes for Botswanan dishes.
The cookbook is actually the brainchild of charity worker and former BBC journalist, Stuart Brown. While working for a charity in Africa, Brown collected authentic Botswanan recipes and with McCall Smith’s blessing, the cookbook project came to life. “I am delighted to be working with Stuart on this book, which will raise funds for worthwhile causes in Botswana,” says McCall Smith who will write a forward and reflections from Ramotswe for the book.
Precious Ramotswe’s generous figure is a recurring theme throughout the series and in Blue Shoes and Happiness, the seventh book, she tries dieting before deciding that satisfying her appetite is more important. As for the cookbook, Brown says that concessions have been made to healthy eating but much of the food is of the calorific type enjoyed by the heroine. “As fans of the series know, Mma Ramotswe is quite a fan of doughnuts, or fat cakes as they are called in Botswana. They feature heavily in her recipe book, as well as fruit cake. The book is a celebration of what she calls the ‘traditional African build’, as she is very much against the tyranny of the thin shape which dominates the fashion world.”
Watch for the book in November the scheduled date for publication by Polygon.
So we managed to get our hands on one of the few copies of 60 Years Later: Coming through the Rye to have been printed before JD Salinger’s Lawyers opened fire and locked up the printing presses while books publishers battled for its life in court (verdict still pending).
Of the very small number of used copies floating about the UK my colleague Richard Davies has now read one and posted his review of the book on AbeBooks.com. You can read the review in full here, but be forward parts of the plot are revealed in the review. This is your fair spoiler warning.
Forty years ago, nearly half a million people gathered in a celebration of love, music and peace - the historic Woodstock Festival. This legendary event is remembered in many ways, including on the printed page. Good Morning America has compiled a list of their Top 8 favorites:







