Friday, March 5, 2010
Trivial Pursuit for Book-Lovers
Children's: What resident of Hundred Acre Wood likes to eat "a little something at 11 o'clock in the morning"?
Classics: What author won a Pulitzer for his trilogy The Trees, The Fields and The Town, later compiled as The Awakening Land?
Non-Fiction: Who's the Last Child of Camelot, according to the subtitle of a Christopher Andersen biography?
Book Club: What Oxford classmate of J.R.R. Tolkien finally found fame at age 81, when her novel Offshore won the Booker Prize?
Authors: What British author of Homage to Catalonia survived a bullet to the throat while fighting in the Spanish Civil War?
Book Bag: What Katherine Dunn novel centers on carny owner Aloysius Binewski and his freakish kids?
Classics: What author won a Pulitzer for his trilogy The Trees, The Fields and The Town, later compiled as The Awakening Land?
Non-Fiction: Who's the Last Child of Camelot, according to the subtitle of a Christopher Andersen biography?
Book Club: What Oxford classmate of J.R.R. Tolkien finally found fame at age 81, when her novel Offshore won the Booker Prize?
Authors: What British author of Homage to Catalonia survived a bullet to the throat while fighting in the Spanish Civil War?
Book Bag: What Katherine Dunn novel centers on carny owner Aloysius Binewski and his freakish kids?
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I saw the first one and though, "it's going to be easy this week. But alas I only know one other.
Children's: Winnie the Pooh
Authors: Orwell
Offshore- Penelope Fitgerald?
The 1st is Conrad Richter.
The children's is Winnie the Pooh
The authors is George Orwell
I KNOW ONE! I've even READ it! Geek Love by Katherine Dunn.
1. Winnie the pooh
4. Penelope Fitzgerald
5. George Orwell
That's all I got --
I got Winnie the Pooh and Geek Love but that's all.
Children's: Winnie the Pooh (Ron, Harriet, ReadersGuide, Jenny)
Classics: Conrad Richter (Ron)
Non-Fiction: Caroline Kennedy
Book Club: Penelope Fitzgerald (Marie, ReadersGuide)
Authors: George Orwell (Harriet,Ron, ReadersGuide)
Book Bag: Geek Love (Care, Jenny)
It's certainly an unusual week when I guess the Non-Fiction one and no one else does, and when there's someone said to be associated with Tolkien that Ron doesn't know! If you haven't read Richter, I recommend trying The Trees--which my parents sent me as soon as I moved to Ohio telling me I must read it here.
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