Trivial Pursuit for Book Lovers
May 18, 2012
Children’s: What favorite children’s author turned a chapter from Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows into the play Toad of Toad Hall?
Classics: What Jane Austen debut presented proper Elinor Dashwood and her impulsive sister Marianne?
Non-Fiction: What nation discovered North and South America, Australia and Antarctica in 1421, according to Gavin Menzies’ 2003 bestseller?
Book Club: Who swiped the plot of Wuthering Heights for her 1998 novel Here on Earth?
Authors: Who began writing No Witnesses and The Angel Maker while at Oxford as the first U.S. writer awarded the Raymond Chandler Fulbright?
Book Bag: Who beguiled readers with the novels Written on the Body and Sexing the Cherry?
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Children’s: A. A. Milne
Classics: Sense and Sensibility
Non-Fiction: China
Book Club: Alice Hoffman
Authors: ?
Book Bag: Jeanette Winterson
Classics: Sense and Sensibility of couse! (I’m rereading it right now)
Book Club: Alice Hoffman, I actually read that book before reading Wuthering Heights and had no idea it was swiped until I read the original.
I’m only good for the last one, and harriet got there first.
Sense and Sensibility
China
Jeanette Winterson
I knew THREE! (Better than I ever do in that silly game…)
I got two — guess which!
Um, Milne and Austen?
Austen and Winterson
I guessed the two I got…but time has definitely proven that the ones I get aren’t necessarily correlated with the ones my readers will get.
None. As per usual. Sigh.
I only knew Sense and Sensibility, and China. Sigh.
Children’s: A.A. Milne
Classics: Sense and Sensibility
Non-Fiction: China
Book Club: Alice Hoffman
Authors: Ridley Pearson
Book Bag: Jeanette Winterson