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?

7 comments:

  1. 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.

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  2. 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: ??

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  3. The only one I know is the first one - Louise Erdrich.

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  4. Classics is The Dubliners, but that's all I got.

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  5. Thank you Modern British Literature.
    Classics: Dubliners

    Sadly, I don't have any of the others...

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  6. Classics: Dubliners

    That's all I've got. Tough one.

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  7. 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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