Friday, October 15, 2010

Trivial Pursuit for Book-Lovers

Children's: What 2001 Ann Brashares novel tells the tale of four girls facing a summer apart, and the pair of magic blue jeans that ties them together?

Classics: What was Myra Breckenridge's first name before the surgery, in a Gore Vidal novel?

Non-fiction: What James Hirsen tattler about entertainment industry liberals is subtitled True Stories of Hollywood Stars and Their Outrageous Politics?

Book Club: What Kurt Vonnegut novel bears the subtitle Or The Children's Crusade?

Authors: What Pulitzer-winning baseball scribe advised: "There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein"?

Book Bag: What writer invented police Commissario Guido Brunetti to investigate crime in Venice?

8 comments:

  1. 1st: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, I'd guess.

    I really don't know any of the others.

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  2. I am 90% sure the Vonnegut is Slaughterhouse Five.

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  3. Book Club: Slaughterhouse Five
    Book Bag: Donna Leon

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  4. Children's: Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants

    Classics: Myron

    Non-Fiction: ?

    Book Club: Slaughterhouse 5

    Authors: Red Smith (I only know this because I saw this quote, which I've heard many times, somewhere a couple of days ago with his name attached)

    Book Bag: ?

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  5. This may be the most I've ever done:

    1. Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
    2. Myron (I'm guessing, but it seems like it could be right)
    3. ?
    4. Slaughterhouse Five
    5. ?
    6. ?

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  6. Children's: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

    Book Club: Slaughterhouse Five

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  7. 1. Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
    2. Myron
    3. ?
    4. Slaughterhouse Five
    5. Red Smith ( just read this somewhere -- where?)
    6. Donna Leon

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  8. Children's: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
    Classics: Myron
    Non-Fiction: Tales From the Left Coast
    Book Club: Slaughterhouse-Five
    Authors: Red Smith
    Book Bag: Donna Leon

    Collectively, we got them all except the non-fiction; evidently no one who reads this blog wants to read about the politics of film stars!

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