Friday, October 29, 2010

Trivial Pursuit for Book-Lovers

Children's: What supernatural estate introduces young Jared, Mallory and Simon to brownies and fairies, in books by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzido?

Classics: What did the press dub the document officially called United States Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967?

Non-Fiction: What Ms magazine co-founder wrote Deborah, Golda and Me to reconcile her Judaism with her feminism?

Book Club: What "magical realist" set several of his books in the mythical Latin American city of Macondo?

Authors: What author committed suicide shortly after finding himself unable to compose a few sentences for JFK's inauguration?

Book Bag: What famed Ray Bradbury collection was released in Britain as The Silver Locusts?

8 comments:

  1. Non-Fiction: Gloria Steinem

    Authors: Ernest Hemingway

    Happy Halloween!

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  2. Children's: The Spiderwick Chronicles (I only know this because we once got part of a novel in a cereal box -- no joke!)

    Classics: Pentagon Papers

    Non-Fiction:Letty Cottin Pogrebin

    Book Club: Marquez

    Authors: ?

    Book Bag: Martian Chronicles?

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  3. BC: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    BB: Dandelion Wine? (I really don't know.)

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  4. 1. Spiderwick Estate

    2. Pentagon papers

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    4 Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  5. Book Club: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

    Authors: Hemingway

    Book Bag: Martian Chronicles?

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  6. Children's: Spiderwick
    Classics: The Pentagon Papers
    Non-Fiction: Letty Cottin Pogrebin
    Book Club: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Authors: Ernest Hemingway
    Book Bag: The Martian Chronicles

    Spiderwick was my nod to Halloween, of course. Yay for so many of you knowing a science fiction title (or two!) this time!

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  7. The rhythm of the name "Gabriel Garcia Marquez" reminds me to check--Jeanne, you *have* heard the Moxy Fruvous song "My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors", right?

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  8. Karen, I had not heard it, but now I have and my morning is brighter for it!

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