Friday, July 16, 2010
Trivial Pursuit for Book-Lovers
Children's: Who republished her classic Four Valentines in a Rainstorm in 2001 as The Day It Rained Hearts?
Classics: What heroine was introduced in a 1936 novel as "not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm"?
Non-Fiction: What Hollywood legend described his recovery from a 1996 medical setback in My Stroke of Luck?
Book Club: What legendary patriarch ends up cooking and eating Earth's last unicorn, in Julian Barnes' The History of the World in 10-1/2 Chapters?
Authors: Who got a free waterbed from the bedding firm that swiped the idea from one of his sci-fi novels?
Book Bag: What novel by Jennifer Weiner has full-figured Cannie learning her former flame titled his debut magazine column "Loving a Larger Woman"?
Classics: What heroine was introduced in a 1936 novel as "not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm"?
Non-Fiction: What Hollywood legend described his recovery from a 1996 medical setback in My Stroke of Luck?
Book Club: What legendary patriarch ends up cooking and eating Earth's last unicorn, in Julian Barnes' The History of the World in 10-1/2 Chapters?
Authors: Who got a free waterbed from the bedding firm that swiped the idea from one of his sci-fi novels?
Book Bag: What novel by Jennifer Weiner has full-figured Cannie learning her former flame titled his debut magazine column "Loving a Larger Woman"?
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Classics: Scarlett O'Hara
I'll think about the rest of them tomorrow.
I only know two this week"
Classics: Scarlett O'Hara
Book Bag: Good in Bed. Hated this book.
Book Bag: Good in Bed. How sad that this is the one I know out of all of them.
Lord, I have not been doing well with these in the past few weeks! I don't know any of these...
Classics: Scarlett of course!
Non-Fiction: Kirk Douglas
Book Bag: Good in Bed
Children's: Felicia Bond
Classics: Scarlett O'Hara
Non-Fiction: Kirk Douglas
Book Club: Noah
Authors: Robert Heinlein
Book Bag: Good in Bed
I would not have believed that no one who reads this blog has read Heinlein! He invented the remote manipulator kind of waldo, too, from his story of the same title.
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