Friday, February 4, 2011

Trivial Pursuit for Book-Lovers

Children's: What type of beast is Hathi, in The Jungle Book?

Classics: What Bernard Malamud debut novel introduced aging baseball phenom Roy Hobbes?

Non-Fiction: What four-letter title did Leora Tanenbaum pick for her book subtitled Growing Up Females with a Bad Reputation?

Book Club: What story by Andre Dubus III inspired the award-winning Sissy Spacek film In the Bedroom?

Authors: What Caribbean nation's revolution inspired Madison Smartt Bell's historical novels All Souls Rising and Master of the Crossroads?

Book Bag: What author briefly abandoned the supernatural in the 1980s to pen The Feast of All Saints and Cry to Heaven?

7 comments:

  1. Children's: elephant
    Classics: The Natural
    Non-Fiction: Slut
    Book Club: ?
    Authors: Haiti
    Book Bag: Anne Rice -- One of my college profs had us read Cry to Heaven, which is about a castrato.

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  2. Children's: elephant

    Classics: The Natural

    Non-Fiction: ?

    Book Club: ?

    Authors: Haiti?

    Book Bag: ? (Stephen King isn't right, I don't think...)

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  3. Childrens: Elephant
    Classics: The Natural
    Non-Fiction: guessing, but it has to be Slut
    Book Club: ?
    Authors: guessing again that it's Haiti
    Book Bag: ? Madame Blavatsky? (kidding)

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  4. Children's: An elephant... that's all I got.

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  5. Not doing very well this week. . .
    Children's -- elephant
    Classics -- the Natural
    Non-fiction -- Slut?
    Book Club -- umm, "In the Bedroom"?? (I know that can't be it. GREAT movie though!)
    Authors -- ?
    Book Bag -- ?

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  6. Children's: an elephant
    Classics: The Natural
    Non-Fiction: Slut!
    Book Club: Killings
    Authors: Haiti's
    Book Bag: Anne Rice

    Even ReadersGuide couldn't fill us in on the Dubus story this week, but we did well with everything else!

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