Trivial Pursuit for Book Lovers
May 11, 2012
Children’s: What classic Shel Silverstein book begins: “Once there was a tree…and she loved a little boy”?
Classics: What Henry James novella tells of a governess terrorized by a pair of malicious ghosts?
Non-Fiction: What book by historian Guido Knopp chronicles five women in the Nazi inner circle and, curiously, Marlene Dietrich?
Book Club: What splashy Daniel Wallace bestseller was subtitled “A Novel of Mythic Proportions”?
Authors: What author of young adult books was flooded with calls after incorporating his actual phone number into I Am the Cheese?
Book Bag: Who churned out 27 books in the 1990s, including The Eyes of Love, Passage to Love, The Wild City of Love and The Protection of Love?
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The Giving Tree
The Turn of the Screw
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Robert Cormier
?
Well, darn, I thought I was early enough to get the children’s question right.
You have to get up pretty early in the morning to be first around here…but you get credit for knowing!
Children’s: The Giving Tree
Classics:The Turn of the Screw
Non-Fiction: ?
Book Club: Big Fish. yet another one I know because of the movie not the book.
Authors: Robert Cormier
Book Bag: No idea. Sounds like someone like Barbara Cartland or Danielle Steel, though.
It certainly does. And this game so often rewards guessing.
In that case, I’ll go with Barbara. I don’t know anything about either of their books, but I’ve seen pictures of both and the titles sound more like Barbara Cartland looks.
you’re right!
Giving Tree
Turn of the Screw
Robert Cormier
Children’s: The Giving Tree
Classics: The Turn of the Screw
Book Club: Big Fish
Authors: Robert Cormier
I did good this week!
4 out of 6 is pretty good for this game!
Did anyone else hate the giving tree? What was the point of it? That mothers are supposed to chop themselves down for their children, who will not appreciate it? Just wondering.
I also don’t much like The Giving Tree. Sacrifice yourself for someone you love…and then apologize (when you’ve given up fruit, branches, trunk) for not having more to give.
A friend gave a copy to my son, but I don’t keep it upstairs in the regular reading rotation at bedtime.
I do think that parenting involves sacrifice as well as joy, but…the book rubs me the wrong way.
The first time I read that book was when a student in my Fantasy Literature class at University of Maryland gave it to me as a present. So I have a nice memory associated with it, and did not read it out loud to my kids.
Children’s: The Giving Tree
Classics: The Turn of the Screw
Non-Fiction: Hitler’s Women
Book Club: Big Fish
Authors: Robert Cormier
Book Bag: Barbara Cartland
Oh bother, the answers have all been posted and I knew a bunch of them. You will just have to take my word for it. I knew all but Authors. Well, I was guessing on Barbara Cartland but it was a pretty good guess because she was nonsensically prolific.
You’re the only one of us who had heard of Hitler’s Women, then.
I saw it at the library once when I was looking for something else. And I remembered because I thought “Marlene Dietrich? What?” :p