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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-07

Posted by Donny on Mar 7, 2010 in BB-related | 0 comments

• 10 rules for writing fiction: from Leonard, Atwood, Doyle, Dunmore, Enright, Franzen, Gaiman, PD James, among others. http://bit.ly/dAPv73 #
• RT @AAKnopf: The top ten book websites according to The Times UK http://ow.ly/hqeR #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-28

Posted by Donny on Feb 28, 2010 in BB-related | 0 comments

• RT @sharonbakar: How Martin Amis has managed to fall out with a whole succession of friends. http://bit.ly/d8HYxw #
• RT @GuardianBooks: Our 10 rules for writing fiction (http://bit.ly/a7zKks) are doing very well on Guardian Zeitgeist http://bit.ly/aCHZIp #
• RT @GuardianBooks: Jeanette Winterson: 'I thought of suicide' http://bit.ly/cXzr9Z #
• RT @GuardianBooks: Margaret Atwood's rules for writers http://bit.ly/cgql0n #
• RT @GuardianBooks: Roddy Doyle's rules for writers http://bit.ly/bnVS0r #
• RT @GuardianBooks: Hilary Mantel's rules for writers http://bit.ly/9PutxN #

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Episode 63: The iPad, Dante’s Hell And Ribena Berry Nipples

Posted by Donny on Feb 26, 2010 in Episodes | 3 comments

Bookbabble Episode 63: The iPad, Dante’s Hell And Ribena Berry Nipples
Recorded 8 Feb 2010
Babblers: Gem, Lone, Marcel, Bjorn and Donny

Synopsis:

The crew welcomes a visit from our favourite English farmer (Gem) as they discuss the recently announced iPad, and all the jokes that come with it.  Also, Marcel brings our attention to Electronic Arts’s new Dante’s Inferno, based on Dante’s classic of the same name.  Is having a half-naked monk killing monsters in the depths of hell a brilliant idea?  Also, Terry Pratchett and euthanasia, and find out what the Odyssey has in common with scantily-clad berries.

Show Length: 1:28:36

Mentioned

• The Death Of Bunny Munro, Nick Cave
• The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno, Dante Alighieri
• Romance of Three Kingdoms, Lo Kuan-Chung
• The Metamorphosis and Other Stories, Franz Kafka
• Journey to the West: The Monkey King’s Amazing Adventures, Wu Cheng’en
• Roadside Picnic, Arkady & Boris Strugatski

Links

• Ribena Advert
• The Apple ‘iPad’
• The Onion – Steve Jobs with the iPad
• iPad vs Stone
• Willy Vlautin’s Northline, which has an accompanying soundtrack
• Marcel’s favourite pro-silent music advocate
• Shigekuni – Welcome to Hell
• Terry Pratchett: my case for a euthanasia tribunal

Download the show here.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-21

Posted by Donny on Feb 21, 2010 in BB-related | 0 comments

• RT @GuardianBooks: Verbal Valentines: books that make perfect couples http://bit.ly/9j8RnY #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-14

Posted by Donny on Feb 14, 2010 in BB-related | 0 comments

• RT @donnyyap: @jk_Rowling is now on Twitter. Though if you're expecting some kind of interaction, well, you may want to read her 3 tweets. #
• 2009 Survey of Book Buying Behavior from Verso Advertising: http://bit.ly/9SXlSd #
• RT @thebookseller: Macmillan US and Amazon.com settle e-books dispute: Macmillan US and Amazon.com have resolved… http://bit.ly/azSWKR #
• RT @HenryGJeffreys: Siri Hustvedt interview in the Guardian http://bit.ly/akrY61 plus Siri has her own site!http://sirihustvedt.net/ #
• RT @britishlibrary: British Library to offer free ebook downloads – Times Online: http://bit.ly/clwrFN #
• @taotahoe Hello Lynda! Welcome to the Twitter bandwagon! #

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