Children's: What does The BFG stand for, in Roald Dahl's 1982 tale?
Classics: What great-grandson of John Adams anonymously published Democracy, a scathing political satire about Washington DC in 1880?
Non-Fiction: Who recalled his years as CIA chief, in the memoir A Look Over My Shoulder?
Book Club: What Jay McInerney novel shows Russell and Corrine Calloway dragged down by Wall Street's 1987 decline?
Authors: What science-fiction author won the 1982 Marconi Award for his work in radar and communications?
Book Bag: What 26-square-mile island must Cormac O'Connor never leave in order to stay immortal, in Pete Hamill's novel, Forever?
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Classics: Big Friendly Giant (awesome books)
Book Club: Brightness Falls
classics: Henry Adams
Big Friendly Giant is the only other one I got...
Authors: Arthur C. Clarke
Authors: Arthur C. Clarke
It has been a while since I knew one the second that I read it!
Childrens: Big Friendly Giant
Book Bag: Manhattan??
Children's: The Big Friendly Giant (love that book)
Book Bag: Manhattan
That's all I got.
"Childrens: " is what I meant but really, all of Dahl's should fall under "classics".
Children's: Big Friendly Giant
Book Bag: Manhattan
Big Friendly Giant
Probably not Asimov, but that's who comes to mind.
Long Island? I seem to remember it being New York...(oh. Now I see that others are saying Manhattan. Well, I'll leave up my honest first guess.)
Children's: Big Friendly Gian
Classics: Henry
Non-Fiction: I don't remember
Book Club: Brightness Falls. He wrote about them again in another book after 9/11. Can't remember the name of that one, though
Authors: Clarke?
Book Bag: No idea. Manhattan?
I love these posts, but really I hardly ever know any of the answers! :)
CC: Big Friendly Giant
Classics: Henry Adams
Non Fiction: Don't Remember
Book Club: Brightness falls
Authors: ?
Book Bag: ? But it must be Manhattan.
Don't know any of these! :-) How fun :-) I love your trivia posts.
Children's: The Big Friendly Giant
Classics: Henry Adams
Non-Fiction: Richard Helms
Book Club: Brightness Falls
Authors: Arthur C. Clarke
Book Bag: Manhattan
We missed Helms, but got the rest.
The post-9/11 sequel to Brightness Falls is entitled The Good Life. I loved the first, didn't care much for the second.
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