Friday, September 3, 2010
Trivial Pursuit for Book-Lovers
Children's: Who told the story of the New World pioneer settlers from the Native Americans' perspective, in her children's novel The Birchbark House?
Classics: What James Joyce short story collection begins with The Sisters and concludes with The Dead?
Non-Fiction: Who had endured a forced separation from her husband for 23 years, when she penned the 1984 memoir Part of My Soul Went with Him?
Book Club: What hard-bitten novelist wrapped up his award-winning Border Trilogy with Cities of the Plain?
Authors: What author of Mr. Sammler's Planet did London's Times dub "the most important writer in English in the second half of the 20th century"?
Book Bag: What author introduced supershrink Alex Delaware in When the Bough Breaks?
Classics: What James Joyce short story collection begins with The Sisters and concludes with The Dead?
Non-Fiction: Who had endured a forced separation from her husband for 23 years, when she penned the 1984 memoir Part of My Soul Went with Him?
Book Club: What hard-bitten novelist wrapped up his award-winning Border Trilogy with Cities of the Plain?
Authors: What author of Mr. Sammler's Planet did London's Times dub "the most important writer in English in the second half of the 20th century"?
Book Bag: What author introduced supershrink Alex Delaware in When the Bough Breaks?
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I will guess that the separated wife was Winnie Mandela.
And I've read and/or listened to a few Alex Delaware books, so I'm answering the last one: Jonathan Kellerman.
Children's: Louise Erdrich. I've been meaning to track that one down.
Classics: Dubliners
Non-Fiction: Mandela -- totally blanking on her first name this morning. Winnie!
Book Club: McCarthy
Authors: Bellow
Book Bag: ??
The only one I know is the first one - Louise Erdrich.
Classics is The Dubliners, but that's all I got.
Thank you Modern British Literature.
Classics: Dubliners
Sadly, I don't have any of the others...
Classics: Dubliners
That's all I've got. Tough one.
Children's: Louise Erdrich
Classics: Dubliners
Non-Fiction: Winnie Mandela
Book Club: Cormac McCarthy
Authors: Saul Bellow
Book Bag: Jonathan Kellerman
Harriet got all but one--and those of us who read mystery novels got that last one!
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