{"id":47293,"date":"2013-02-25T09:30:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T14:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=47293"},"modified":"2019-01-04T04:47:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T09:47:35","slug":"james-bonds-breakfast-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/25\/james-bonds-breakfast-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"James Bond\u2019s Breakfast, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Well, this is depressing: for fiscal reasons, a Tennessee post office has taken to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/news\/2013\/feb\/24\/postal-service-throwing-away-returned-books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> tossing books<\/a> that get returned to sender. Hopefully Dolly Parton, whose charity is involved, will intervene and make everything right.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/9873442\/Top-ten-unfilmable-novels.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ten \u201cunfilmable\u201d books<\/a>, made into films of varying quality.<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/static\/cs\/uk\/0\/pubsetpages\/penguinscreenadaptataions\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Penguin<\/a> has been toting up the Oscar wins on adaptations of their titles, all of which are discounted. (The Shakespeares seem like cheating.)<\/li>\n<li>If all that was old news to you, perhaps we can interest you in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/books\/jacketcopy\/la-et-jc-the-literary-oscar-quiz-20130222,0,3626134.story?track=rss&amp;utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;dlvrit=717819\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">literary Oscars quiz<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMeticulous breakfast prep often signals violent tendencies.\u201d On James Bond\u2019s prandial fussiness and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2013\/feb\/22\/breakfast-characters-james-bond\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> breakfast as character indicator<\/a> in fiction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Well, this is depressing: for fiscal reasons, a Tennessee post office has taken to tossing books that get returned to sender. Hopefully Dolly Parton, whose charity is involved, will intervene and make everything right. 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