Friday, February 18, 2011

Trivial Pursuit for Book-Lovers

Children's: What Harry Potter confection comes with a wizard card in every package?

Classics: What novel by Aldous Huxley shipwrecks reporter Will Farnaby in the faraway utopia of Pala?

Non-Fiction: What best-selling high-tech author described his fascination with spoon-bending and other psychic phenomena, in Travels?

Book Club: What novelist contrasts the marriages of two Bangladeshi sisters in her debut novel Brick Lane?

Authors: Who helped Zora Neale Hurston turn her short story "Mule Bone" into a play, before a rift caused it to go unpublished for 60 years?

Book Bag: What William Goldman book included the first chapter of its unpublished sequel, Buttercup's Baby, in its 25th anniversary edition?

8 comments:

  1. Children's: Chocolate Frogs

    Book Club: Monica Ali

    Book Bag: Lord of the Flies??

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  2. Children's: Chocolate Frogs

    Classics: Brave New World

    Book Bag: The Princess Bride

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  3. Children: Chocolate Frogs

    Nonfiction: Michael Crichton

    Author: Monica Ali

    Book Bag: The Princess Bride!!!

    This week's was fantastic!

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  4. Children's: Chocolate Frogs
    Classics: Island
    Non-Fiction: ?
    Book Club: Monica Ali
    Authors: Langston Hughes
    Book Bag: The Princess Bride. Didn't we just have a question about this book?

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  5. I'm so excited to know some this week! :-)

    Children's: Chocolate Frog
    Book Club: Monica Ali
    Book Bag: The Princess Bride

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  6. Children's: Chocolate Frogs
    Book Club: Monica Ali
    Book Bag: The Princess Bride

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  7. Children's: Chocolate frogs
    Classics: Island
    Non-Fiction: Michael Crichton
    Book Club: Monica Ali
    Authors: Langston Hughes
    Book Bag: The Princess Bride

    I thought the first and the last were easy. But together, we got them all.

    Harriet, I don't remember a recent question about The Princess Bride...but can there be too many?!

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