Trivial Pursuit for Book Lovers
April 6, 2012
Children’s: Who wrote the “Fairly Stupid Tales” Little Red Running Shorts and Cinderumpelstiltskin?
Classics: What novel by George Eliot concerns a bitter recluse whose fortunes change after he discovers a little girl asleep on his hearth?
Non-Fiction: What nation does Betty Mahmoody chronicle her escape from, in Not Without My Daughter?
Book Club: What fictional John Updike hero not only won the Nobel Prize, but also hunted down and killed his literary critics?
Authors: What bohemian’s ramblings inspired Truman Capote to quip: “This isn’t writing, it’s typing”?
Book Bag: What Audrey Niffenegger novel concerns Clare Abshire’s marriage to a librarian?
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Necromancy Never Pays 
I know Book Bag! The Time Traveler’s Wife! I love it when I get here early and actually know one!
Classics: Silas Marner (my first Eliot)
Authors: I’m guessing On the Road
Book Bag: The Time Traveler’s Wife!
I thought of Kerouac for the rambling bohemian, as well.
The only one I really know, though, is The Time Traveler’s Wife.
Children’s: Could it be Jon Sczieska?
Classics: Definitely Silas Marner
Nonfiction: I think it’s Iran.
Authors: Jack Kerouac
Book Bag: The Time Traveler’s Wife
I have no idea about Updike, but five out of six guesses is my best week ever!
I *knew* three of these put had to read the other comments to confirm. Except, I’m going to guess Rabbit for the Updike but I could be totally on-all-counts wrong?!
Scieszka
Time Traveler’s Wife
Children’s: John Sciecska? Sciewska? I can never spell his name, but it’s The Stinky Cheese Man.
Classics: Silas Marner
Non-Fiction: I know this because I saw the movie (starring Sally Field) on a hellacious bus ride once: Iran
Book Club: Rabbit
Authors: Kerouac
Book Bag: The Time Traveler’s Wife
Children’s: It’s the guy who wrote The Three Bad Pigs, right? Whatever-his-name-is
Classics: Silas Marner. I couldn’t believe George Eliot wrote Silas Marner, btw. It’s fine, but it’s very very sentimental.
Non-fiction: Iran. This book upset me very very much.
Book Club: I thought it was Rabbit something, but what do I know. I never read Updike.
Authors: No earthly.
Book Bag: The Time Traveler’s Wife.
It’s a Good Friday for me!
Children’s: Jon Scieszka (I had to look up the spelling but I knew it was pronounced SHES-ka, so I’d have gotten the point if this were real Trivial Pursuit)
Classics: Silas Marner
Book Club: Rabbit
Authors: Don’t really know, but if I were guessing for Trivial Pursuit I’d guess William Burroughs
Book Bag: The Time Traveler’s Wife
Woot. Four!
I had no idea how that name was pronounced!
Children’s: John Scieszka
Classics: Silas Marner
Non-Fiction: Iran
Book Club: Henry Bech
Authors: Jack Kerouac
Book Bag: The Time Traveler’s Wife