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Date Your Characters, and Other News
By
Sadie Stein
June 28, 2013
On the Shelf
Hogarth is launching
a new series
in which modern writers reinterpret Shakespeare. First up: Anne Tyler does
The Taming of the Shrew
, while Jeanette Winterson takes on
The Winter’s Tale
.
In their own words: “We at
Author’s Promoter
thought it would be awesome if there was a site where you could check out characters from books and read up about them before deciding if you wanted to read their story; we also thought it would be pretty cool if you could find the type of characters you love to read about. In a way, we wanted to offer a ‘dating site’ for readers; we know that no matter how awesome the site gets it will always need more and more improvement adapting to readers and authors’ needs and that is exactly what we intend on doing!” The above is what we got when we selected “Male; asexual; human; 5’ 4”. So, n.b.
If you’re more into
blind
book dating
, on the other hand …
E. L. James
has overtaken J. K. Rowling’s perch on the mysterious Forbes Most Influential list.
In which
you were tricked into reading science fiction.
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