Friday, September 24, 2010
Trivial Pursuit for Book-Lovers
Children's: What Sandra Boynton book is fittingly subtitled Pigorian Chat from Snouto Domoinko de Silo?
Classics: What novel by Bernard Malamud reveals the fate of Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman accused of murdering a Christian boy to obtain his blood?
Non-Fiction: What prominent 20th-century Republican is one of nine World War II airmen celebrated in Flyboys?
Book Club: Whose novel A Patchwork Planet introduced "Rent-A-Back," a service that sends employees to do heavy lifting for the elderly?
Authors: What New York novelist is credited with spiking up the sales of Manolo Blahnik shoes?
Book Bag: What former Scottish pickle-packer penned a flowery saga about a Victorian prostitute, called The Crimson Petal and the White?
Classics: What novel by Bernard Malamud reveals the fate of Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman accused of murdering a Christian boy to obtain his blood?
Non-Fiction: What prominent 20th-century Republican is one of nine World War II airmen celebrated in Flyboys?
Book Club: Whose novel A Patchwork Planet introduced "Rent-A-Back," a service that sends employees to do heavy lifting for the elderly?
Authors: What New York novelist is credited with spiking up the sales of Manolo Blahnik shoes?
Book Bag: What former Scottish pickle-packer penned a flowery saga about a Victorian prostitute, called The Crimson Petal and the White?
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This week's was tough.
Authors: Candace Bushnell
Book Bag: Michel Faber
Children's: Ooh! I have this one! " Grunt," of course! I will never be too old for Boynton.
Classics: I should know this, but the best I can do is "not The Natural"
Non-Fiction: ?
Book Club: ?
Authors: Surely it is Candace Bushnell
Book Bag: ?
Tough ones this week!
Book CLub: Anne Tyler (love her)
I knew one! Anne Tyler!! But someone else knew it first :(
All I've got is that authors is surely candance bushnell and the feeling that I ought to, but don't, know classics. This quiz!
I think I know some answers - this never happens!
Non-fiction: Charles Lindbergh
And then I know someone else go them already but I also think Author is Candace Bushnell and Book Bag is Michel Faber.
Children's: Grunt
Classics: The Fixer
Non-Fiction: George Bush
Book Club: Anne Tyler's
Authors: Candace Bushnell
Book Bag: Michael Faber
This WAS a hard one. Only two were easy for me, since I love all of Anne Tyler's novels and most of Sandra Boynton's books with CDs.
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