Friday, October 22, 2010
Trivial Pursuit for Book-Lovers
Children's: What four-letter word did Diane Swanson pick for the title of her book about food and its digestion?
Classics: What George Eliot opus introduced the idealistic Dorothea Brooke, stuck in a disastrous marriage to an aging scholar named Casaubon?
Non-Fiction: What Dan Zevin tale of adult "firsts" is subtitled Confessions of a Reluctant Grown-Up?
Book Club: What 1996 book opens ominously: "My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born"?
Authors: What Italian-American author described himself as "olive-skinned in a freckle-faced town," in 1992's Unto the Sons?
Book Bag: What group kept the Foundation on the straight and narrow, in Isaac Asimov's classic sci-fi series?
Classics: What George Eliot opus introduced the idealistic Dorothea Brooke, stuck in a disastrous marriage to an aging scholar named Casaubon?
Non-Fiction: What Dan Zevin tale of adult "firsts" is subtitled Confessions of a Reluctant Grown-Up?
Book Club: What 1996 book opens ominously: "My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born"?
Authors: What Italian-American author described himself as "olive-skinned in a freckle-faced town," in 1992's Unto the Sons?
Book Bag: What group kept the Foundation on the straight and narrow, in Isaac Asimov's classic sci-fi series?
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5 comments:
Children's: Burp
Classics: Middlemarch
Non-Fiction: ?
Book Club: Angela's Ashes, I think. That was my first thought anyway, but I will admit I went looked up the publication date because I thought it was older than that.
Authors: ?
Book Bag: ? Sci-fi is definitely not my area of expertise.
A tough bunch this week!
The George Eliot book has to be Middlemarch.
BC: Angela's Ashes
BB: The Second Foundation
(A circle has no end.)
Classics: Middlemarch
Book Club: Angela's Ashes
I agree, this one is tough!
How embarassing, I only knew Middlemarch.
Children's: Burp!
Classics: Middlemarch
Non-Fiction: The Day I Turned Uncool
Book Club: Angela's Ashes
Authors: Gay Talese
Book Bag: Second Foundation
This was a tough one--but it's good we always get the classics, at least!
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