Note: Due to Blogger fail, the edition of Trivial Pursuit for Booklovers that I scheduled for today didn't post as scheduled. So I'm posting it again. If you see it twice, you'll know that my cry of "Blogger, I wish I knew how to quit you" is diminishing in volume.
Children's: What book by Lois Lowry finds 12-year-old Jonas rebelling against a futuristic society that has decided he is to become a Receiver of Memories?
Classics: What was Scarlett's original name, in the first drafts of Gone With The Wind--Iris, Pansy or Rose?
Non-Fiction: What famed work of art, unearthed on a Greek island in 1820, had its subsequent history revealed in Gregory Curtis' Disarmed?
Book Club: What inventive Robert Coover novella explores the bond between an errant maid and her master?
Authors: What best-selling British author, convicted of perjury, penned the thriller Sons of Fortune and the memoir A Prison Diary while behind bars?
Book Bag: What character was said to resemble Hoagy Carmichael, in Casino Royale?
Children's: The Giver
ReplyDeleteClassics: Pansy
That's all I got!
Also - I can still see the Lucky Jim post on Google Reader. If you can't get it back, I can cut and paste and send it to you. Crude but effective.
ReplyDeleteChildren's: The Giver
ReplyDeleteClassics: Pansy
Non-Fiction: ?
Book Club: Spanking the Maid
Authors: ?
Book Bag: James Bond? Seems unlikely, but the only character name I can remember!
Children's: The Giver
ReplyDeleteNon-Fiction: I could visualize this statue but had to go look up its name; it's the Venus de Milo.
Book Club: It's not _Girl with a Pearl Earring_, but I don't know it...
Not a great week for me!
I think Scarlett's original name was Rose?
ReplyDeleteI only know two:
ReplyDeleteChildren's -- The Giver
Classics -- Pansy
Sorry about your blogger problems, I clicked on your Lucky Jim post to make a clever comment and it had disappeared!!
Children's: The Giver
ReplyDeleteClassics: Pansy - I'm reading a book on the Gone With the Wind saga right now and just learned that. Ugh, Pansy, that would have been awful.
Children's: The Giver
ReplyDeleteClassics: Pansy
Non-Fiction: Venus de Milo
Book Club: Spanking the Maid
Authors: Jeffrey Archer
Book Bag: James Bond
Looks like we know everything except authors who are jailbirds...