Children's: What famed cinematic nanny wrote the novel The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles?
Classics: What novel begins "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect"?
Non-Fiction: What Baptist minister made bestseller lists with a self-help series on living a "Purpose-Driven Life"?
Book Club: What ethnic slur did novelist Jessica Hagedorn pick for the title of her 1990 novel, enraging many fellow Filipino-Americans?
Authors: What author was touted as the "Bard of the Litigious Age" on a 1990 Time magazine cover?
Book Bag: What Maeve Binchy novel focuses on the loves and lives of cooking school chums Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather?
Evidently, you have an advantage this week if you remember the 1990s!
Ha! I am first!
ReplyDeleteClassics: Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka.
Book Club: Dogeaters
Authors: Guessing -- John Grisham? Louis Begley?
Book Bag: Scarlet Feather
Children's: Julie Andrews
ReplyDeleteClassics: Metamorphosis
Non-fiction: Rick Warren
Book Bag: Scarlet Feather
Classics: The Metamorphosis. Don't know any of the rest of them...
ReplyDeleteI sadly only know one.
ReplyDeleteChildrens: Julie Andrews. :-)
Children's: Julie Andrews
ReplyDeleteClassics: Metamorphosis
Non-Fiction: Rick Warren (ugh)
Book Club: Dogeaters
Authors: It's got to be Scott Turow, although I've never heard of this.
Book Bag: don't know; not Circle of Friends.
WooHoo. I actually know the frist four without looking them up. Guess I remember my 90's. ;-)
ReplyDeleteChildren's: Julie Andrews
ReplyDeleteClassics: The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
Nonfiction: Rick Warren
I guess half isn't too bad!
I got half of them! What fun :)
ReplyDeleteChildrens: Julie Andrews
ReplyDeleteClassics: The Metamorphosis
Non-Fiction: Rick Warren
Book Club: Dogeaters
Authors: Scott Turow
Book Bag: Scarlet Feather
Have you noticed I like to wait to give the answers until someone has gotten each one right--it hardly ever takes more than a weekend! You are a well-read group!
I only knew about The Metamorphosis. I see others suggesting that the litigious bard is Scott Turow, but I could only think of John Grisham on my own.
ReplyDeleteKaren, I did mean as a group!
ReplyDeleteI picked out that card because I knew at least three...they were Julie Andrews, the Metamorphosis, and Scott Turow.