Friday, March 12, 2010
Trivial Pursuit for Book-Lovers
Children's: What children's book begins: "In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines..."?
Classics: What Mohican, Hawkeye's companion in The Leatherstocking Tales, dies in The Pioneers?
Non-Fiction: What nation did Bill Bryson tool around in, to research his Notes From a Small Island?
Book Club: Who wove observations from his childhood on the grounds of Broadmoor's Criminal Lunatic Asylum into his novels Asylum and Spider?
Authors: What surplus WWII vehicle proudly adorns the lawn of Tom Clancy's Maryland home--a helicopter, tank, or submarine?
Book Bag: What 1979 novel did Douglas Adams base on his own BBC science-fiction radio series?
Classics: What Mohican, Hawkeye's companion in The Leatherstocking Tales, dies in The Pioneers?
Non-Fiction: What nation did Bill Bryson tool around in, to research his Notes From a Small Island?
Book Club: Who wove observations from his childhood on the grounds of Broadmoor's Criminal Lunatic Asylum into his novels Asylum and Spider?
Authors: What surplus WWII vehicle proudly adorns the lawn of Tom Clancy's Maryland home--a helicopter, tank, or submarine?
Book Bag: What 1979 novel did Douglas Adams base on his own BBC science-fiction radio series?
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Children's: Madeline
Non-Fiction: Britain
Authors: guessing tank
Book Bag: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
A couple of guesses this time:
Non-Fiction: Great Britain???
Book Bag: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (I'm actually pretty sure on this one).
Children's: Madeline
Classics: I haven't r these, I'm ashamed to say.
Non-Fiction: U.K.
Book Club: No idea
Authors: submarine?
Book Bag: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
This is not easier. I want my money back!
Lived 12 little girls in two straight lines. The smallest one was Madeleine.
Oh, I never read those Mohican stories -- are they any good?
Great Britain -- funny book.
Patrick McGrath -- too creepy for me.
No idea.
Hitchhiker's Guide, which I have also never read -- any good?
Children's-Madeline
Classics-Chingachgook
Non-fiction-Britain
Authors-Tank!
Book Bag-The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Children's: Madeline
Non-Fiction: England
Authors: Tank
Book Bag: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Readersguide: Hitchhiker's is awesome! It's one of my favorite books.
Others have done all the work here, so I'll just ask if you've ever read any Bill Bryson books? They are very funny and offer a good bit of information. I particularly love In a Sunburned Country and (my all-time favorites) A Walk in the Woods.
Children's: Madeline
Classics: Chingachgook (I may be spelling this wrong...)
Nonfiction: the UK
Book Club: Patrick McGrath
Book Bag: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Madeline!!! :-)
book bag- hitchhiker's guide?
Children's: Madeline
Classics: Chingachgook
Non-Fiction: Britain
Book Club: Patrick McGrath
Authors: a tank
Book Bag: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Collectively, we got them all once again.
ReadersGuide, I haven't read the Mohican stories in years, so I can't really say. But The Hitchhiker's Guide is the book I'm going to BE in a Fahrenheit 451 world, so yes, I love it! More than ANY OTHER!
PAJ, yes I think I've read everything Bryson has written; certainly the two you mention. Sometimes he irritates me with the baby boomer/hippie attitude. But he's a good writer, generally.
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