Friday, January 28, 2011
Trivial Pursuit for Book-Lovers
Children's: What William H. Armstrong classic tells the tragic tale of an unlucky mutt and his sharecropper masters?
Classics(?): What 1957 Ayn Rand opus devotes 57 pages to a single discourse on the principles of objectivism?
Non-Fiction: What Tidewater novelist devotes Fridays to writing nonfiction, some of which was published in The Friday Book and Further Fridays?
Book Club: What play, set in a Chicago real estate office, earned David Mamet a Pulitzer Prize?
Authors: What women's college hired Jill Ker Conway, author of The Road from Coorain, as its first female president?
Book Bag: What novel about a struggling Dublin band kicked Roddy Doyle's writing career into high gear?
Classics(?): What 1957 Ayn Rand opus devotes 57 pages to a single discourse on the principles of objectivism?
Non-Fiction: What Tidewater novelist devotes Fridays to writing nonfiction, some of which was published in The Friday Book and Further Fridays?
Book Club: What play, set in a Chicago real estate office, earned David Mamet a Pulitzer Prize?
Authors: What women's college hired Jill Ker Conway, author of The Road from Coorain, as its first female president?
Book Bag: What novel about a struggling Dublin band kicked Roddy Doyle's writing career into high gear?
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I'm so lame, I only know three -- I've never read Rand and I've completely forgotten the Mamet play. Hmpft.
Children's -- Sounder
Authors -- Amherst College?
Book Bag -- The Committments
Children's: ?
Classics: Atlas Shrugged
Non-Fiction: ?
Book Club: Glengarry Glen Ross
Authors: Smith College -- my alma mater. I attended Jill Conway's inauguration, which coincided with my freshman year. Best part: all functions were catered by Julia Child.
Book Bag: The Commitments
I mistyped -- not Conway's inauguration -- her de-inauguration. She was leaving and the new president was being inaugurated.
Children's: Sounder (one of many very sad books about animals for children.)
Classics: Atlas Shrugged
Non-fiction: John Barth
Book Club: Glengarry Glen Ross
Author's: Smith!
Book Bag: the Commitments
Ha!
Sounder and Atlas Shrugged - that's all I know.
Classics: Atlas Shrugged
Book Club: Glengarry Glen Ross
I've read those two, so I actually knew them!
Glengarry Glen Ross! I know one!!!
Ha, I like the Classics(?) note :) That one is Atlas Shrugged!
Children's: Sounder
Classics: Atlas Shrugged
Non-Fiction: John Barth
Book Club: Glengarry Glen Ross
Authors: Smith College
Book Bag: The Commitments
Collectively, we got all but Barth this week.
I love the idea of a de-inauguration!
Actually, readersguide got Barth, too.
Karen, you're right. ReadersGuide, I'm so sorry I didn't properly celebrate your victory!
This is the result of typing in the answers before I've properly opened my eyes and had a cup of tea on a Monday morning. I knew I wasn't with it when I told the kids that they had a pretty good "chance of school" for tomorrow (I meant "snow").
Hooray hooray! (We have to celebrate, because it will almost certainly never be repeated.)
Readersguide, I will send you a prize appropriate for such a victory!
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