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These Quizzes Are Hard, and Other News
By
Sadie Stein
April 8, 2013
On the Shelf
Can you guess these classic books from their phantom covers?
In a word: no. (Well, three of them.)
Guess
these famous novels
from their second lines? We batted like .600.
Also disspiritingly difficult: this
John le Carré quiz
.
Buck up! “Without the advertising budgets of major houses, the smaller presses have more difficulty finding readers, Mr. Nelson said, and the idea behind the library was to form a community of people who could share books that were not easy to find elsewhere.” Meet
Mellow Pages Library
of Bushwick.
Iain Banks, who announced last week that he is dying of cancer,
married
his long-term partner at Inverlochy Castle Hotel in the Scottish Highlands. As he put it, he asked if she would “do me the honour of becoming my widow.”
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