Friday, December 17, 2010

Trivial Pursuit for Book-Lovers

Children's: What Ted Hughes story of a misunderstood metal monster, minus its Australia-sized "space bat" nemesis, became an animated movie classic?

Classics: What 1965 Thomas Pynchon novella introduces a heroine with the unlikely name of Oedipa Maas?

Non-Fiction: Who took time off from spinning tales of the high seas to pen Picasso: A Biography and Joseph Banks: A Life?

Book Club: What John Fowles epic brings a Hollywood writer back to Oxford to bury a college chum?

Authors: What novelist was known as Alyssa Rosenbaum in her native St. Petersburg, before changing it to protect her family from Stalinist retribution?

Book Bag: What quadriplegic sleuth uses cohort Amelia Sachs as his eyes and ears, in Jeffrey Deaver thrillers?

6 comments:

  1. Children's -- I know this one! It's the Iron Giant -- great movie adaptation, done by Brad Bird who later did The Incredibles for Pixar.

    Authors -- Ayn Rand?

    PS -- did you see that you won my giveaway?

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  2. Non-Fiction: Patrick O'Brian

    Authors: Ayn Rand

    Happy Friday!

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  3. Children's: The Iron Giant
    Classics: The Crying of Lot 49
    Non-Fiction: This is a total guess, but O'Brian?
    Book Club: I can't think of this one. It's someone's kind of generic name.
    Authors: Ayn Rand
    Book Bag: ?

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  4. 1. Ironman
    2. Crying of Lot 49
    3. Patrick O'Brian
    4. ?
    5. Ayn Rand
    6. Lincoln Rhyme (I totally cheated and looked this one up.)

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  5. Children's: The Iron Giant, or The Iron Man
    Classics: The Crying of Lot 49
    Non-Fiction: Patrick O'Brian
    Book Club: Daniel Martin
    Authors: Ayn Rand
    Book Bag: Lincoln Rhyme

    This time we got them all, with a little "help" from ReadersGuide!

    I did win a book from Karenlibrarian--more on that to come.

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  6. Oh, I was counting Harriet's "sort of generic name" as getting Daniel Martin!

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