Friday, March 26, 2010
Trivial Pursuit for Book-Lovers
Children's: What pig experiments with jobs like detective, banker and cowboy, in 26 Walter Brooks books?
Classics: What nickname does Juno give her egotistical hubby Captain Jack Boyle, in a Sean O'Casey play?
Non-Fiction: What 3,900-mile-long waterway did Simon Winchester travel up and back down, while researching The River at the Center of the World?
Book Club: What kind of animal narrates Paul Auster's novel Timbuktu--a dog, a parrot or a rat?
Authors: Who dressed in men's clothing and signed her name "Dr. Will" as a young woman, before going on to write O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark?
Book Bag: What author landed Hideaway, Dragon Tears, Cold Fire and five other novels on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list?
Classics: What nickname does Juno give her egotistical hubby Captain Jack Boyle, in a Sean O'Casey play?
Non-Fiction: What 3,900-mile-long waterway did Simon Winchester travel up and back down, while researching The River at the Center of the World?
Book Club: What kind of animal narrates Paul Auster's novel Timbuktu--a dog, a parrot or a rat?
Authors: Who dressed in men's clothing and signed her name "Dr. Will" as a young woman, before going on to write O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark?
Book Bag: What author landed Hideaway, Dragon Tears, Cold Fire and five other novels on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list?
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I do not know any of these. That makes me feel a tiny bit bad about myself.
Oh Jenny, don't feel bad! These are really hard! I know three out of the six, which is why I played the card, but that's from years of studying for an oh-so-useful degree in literature...
Children's: Freddy, in the _Freddy the Detective_ series.
Classics - Paycock
Book Club - dog
Authors - Willa Cather
I only knew two - Paycock and Willa Cather.
Willa Cather, yes? That's the only one I can answer.
I knew one!!! But that's because I absolutely loved Song of the Lark. Hurrah!
I was going to guess Rose Wilder Lane, but now realize, with appropriate dope slap, that it's Cather.
Willa Cather is the only one I know.
Children's: Freddy (I loved the detective book, and I think it's Walter, Walker)
Book Club: a dog
Authors: Willa Cather
Avid Reader, thanks (second dope slap) I can't type the name "Walter" easily because I type Walker so much (my son's name)! Didn't mean to make that question harder!
Children's: Freddy
Classics: Paycock
Non-Fiction: The Yangtze
Book Club: A dog
Authors: Willa Cather
Book Bag: Dean Koontz
This is the first time we've missed any--maybe because Harriet is on vacation and she often knows the non-fiction one. Also I don't think we have to work up much shame for not knowing Koontz.
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