Book News-32: A 50,000-word novel without 'e' !

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, Gadsby, with over 50,000 words. It speciality is it is written as a lipogram and does not include words that contain the letter "e".

What is a lipogram? A lipogram is a kind of constrained writing or word game consisting of writing paragraphs or longer works in which a particular letter or group of letters is avoided — usually a common vowel, and frequently "E", the most common letter in the English language.

For more details from Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby_(novel)

More on Lipogram from Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipogram

Grateful thnks to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Book of the Day-14: Detoxify Your Life - The Ultimate Happiness Prescription by Dr Deepak Chopra

"The Ultimate Happiness Prescription" by Deepak Chopra is a book about following certain life practices that bring you joy and fulfillment every day in your life, so you can turn so-called problems into opportunities, improve the conditions in your life for happiness, and make choices every day that will bring joy to you and happiness not only to yourself but to the people in your environment. "The Ultimate Happiness Prescription" is not only about creating joy and happiness every day in your life, but about enlightenment: how do you get in touch with that part of yourself that is always happy, no matter what.

Grateful thanks to Dr Deepa Chopra, Crown Books and YouTube.

Book News-31: PENGUIN LAUNCHES E-BOOKS

An interesting and happy news for booklovers - Penguin Books India is launching ebooks and plans to publish about 800 titles by the end of the year.  I came across this news item in The Hindu  of July 18, 2012.  To read the full article:


"Penguin launches e-books" by Anuj Srivas:

http://www.thehindu.com/business/companies/article3650054.ece

Grateful thanks to The Hindu.