Bookmarks: Blackberry-hating, Harry Potterland, and flying a kite with Khaled Hosseini

Quillblog, Bookmarks, books, Google, Guardian, Harry Potter, memoir, TV, Writing

September 16, 2009 | 1:20 PM | By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links:

Black Swan author not a fan of Blackberries, black president
The Harry Potter theme park opening next year – finally, ordinary children get a glimpse of the fictional educational institution they would be barred from attending due to highly discriminatory admissions policies
The Kite Runner author flies a kite
Patrick Swayze memoir coming soon (talk about Ghost-writing! Ba-da-boom!!)
Damian Tarnopolsky on Nabokov’s first novel
Does the Google logo mystery lead to H.G. Wells? (Or does it just lead to more publicity for Google?)

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