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| April 9, 2012, 4:51 pm

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: What I’m reading now

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E-book fans are reading a third more books than print-only people, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project: about 24 books the past year, compared to about 15 by old-style print readers.

Interesting. Right now I’m a print-only diehard, voracious, and last year tried to count all the books I’d read, but stopped at the end of March, having clocked about 100.

I’m a huge fan of Denver Public Library. I order what I want online, then when I get the email that it’s in hold section, I head across Civic Center Park on lunch break and pick it up. Sometimes there are wonderful surprises, like the time I was 94 on the wait list for Katherine Boo’s hot new book on Mumbai, “Behind the Beautiful Forevers,” but when I cruised my branch library in SoBo it was there on the shelf, so I snapped it up.

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| February 23, 2010, 10:07 am

New “Upstairs Downstairs” coming to PBS

PBS and the BBC are co-producing a new “Upstairs Downstairs” as part of a new collaboration on several programs to air in the U.S. in 2011, the 40th anniversary season of “Masterpiece.”

The deal also includes “Sherlock,” a 21st-century spin on Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic Sherlock Holmes novels, and three Aurelio Zen mysteries, adapted from the best-selling novels by Michael Dibden set in Italy.

Benedict Cumberbatch (“Atonement”) will portray Holmes.
Rufus Sewell (“Eleventh Hour”) will portray the Italian detective.
And Marsh returns as the parlor maid Rose.

The original “Upstairs Downstairs” won seven Emmys for what was then “Masterpiece Theatre” in the mid-1970s, including Best Actress for Marsh. Marsh will reprise her role in the new three-part series as Rose, the parlor maid. Dame Eileen Atkins, the co-creator of the original, will also star. Screenwriter Heidi Thomas (Cranford) is setting the new drama in the same house at 165 Eaton Place in 1936, during the period leading up to World War II.

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