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At the blog of a colleague I saw she “wiki-ed” her birthday.
Cool idea, so I had to copy her, sorry Sophie; it was completely your idea.
Here are some literary connections to my birthday:
events:
1947 – The Diary of Anne Frank is published.
2009 – Canadian author Alice Munro collects the third Man Booker International Prize at a ceremony at Trinity College Dublin.
Not for the faint at heart, mind you, but here is the official book trailer of the upcoming book Sense and sensibility and sea monsters:
(This book is the follow-up of Pride and prejudice and zombies.)
Popularity: unranked [?]
Another list of favorites. This time the classics have their turn.
I have restricted myself to choosing five, but really…that is not enough, I know. Still, for the sake of not making my list two whole pages, here are my picks.
1. Pride and prejudice – Jane Austen: who doesn’t know the story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy? The best love story of all times.
2. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier: a haunting story with a twist of two women struggling for the attention of one man.
In a not too distant future, being f*t (read fat) is illegal. Laws to imprison people who have a too high percentage of body f*t have been made and a Health Enforcement team is working the streets of New York to spot anyone who is overweight (‘humonsters’). Matt Devlin is one of the agents working for this team, and he’s content writing out tickets for f*t people. But his routine is shattered when a dead body is found near an illegal ‘eateasy’; the body only wearing a bikini of the best, rarest and purest chocolate (‘brown’). And of course chocolate is an illegal substance to posses and eat. So, the question that arises is this: Who’s crime is this…is it a case for homicide or the mellow Health Enforcement? Or can both apartments work this case together?…f*t chance!
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