I looked through one entire deck of cards for the book-lover's trivial pursuit game to find some that had to do with Christmas, since it falls on a Friday this year. I found only one Christmas question, and here it is, at the end:
Children's: What novel centers on a teen from the kingdom of Alagaesia who finds a bright blue dragon egg?
Classics: What novel by Jane Austen concerns Anne Elliot's regrets at being talked out of marrying the love of her life?
Non-Fiction: What 88-year-old historian chatted about death with 60 folks to pen Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
Book Club: What Kurosawa film do single mom Sibylla and her six-year-old son watch incessantly, in Helen Dewitt's debut novel, The Last Samurai?
Authors: What prolific children's author has hosted a weekly BBC Radio show called Jakestown for 20 years?
Book Bag: What Yuletide tale finds Santa stuffing beef jerky and Moon Pies into the stockings of trailer-park denizens Bubba and Earlene?
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Just know that I was never good at this game. The only one I came close was with movies and TV. Yes, that's really sad, but I use to be an addict.
Merry Christmas! :)
Will the Circle Be Unbroken is Studs Terkel. Other than that I got nothin'.
Three out of six isn't great, but here are my answers:
Q1: Eragon
Q3: Studs Terkel
Q5: Brian Jacques
My only guess is Eragon as well for #1. I just wanted to stop by and wish you a (belated) Merry Christmas!
Eragon and Persuasion are the only two I know.
Hope your holidays have been merry thus far.
Wow! Questions were much harder than I anticipated. Makes me think I'm not as well read as I'd hoped.
Children's. Eragon?
Classics. Persuasion
Non-fiction. Studs Terkel
Book Club. Seven Samurai?
Authors: Oh, damn. I can't think of his name, but he wrote Redwall
Book Bag: No idea.
Harriet got all but the last one right:
Eragon
Persuasion
Studs Terkel
The Seven Samurai
Brian Jacques (who wrote Redwall)
and here's the one no one got:
The Redneck Night Before Christmas
Brian Jacques! And the only reason I knew that one is that AJ just read Redwall and I had looked him up. Funny I remembered the radio bit and not his name.
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