Trivial Pursuit for Book Lovers
May 25, 2012
Children’s: What 12-year-old crime solver did author Eve Bunting unleash, in Coffin on a Case?
Classics: What famed abode does Colonel Pyncheon build on land taken from a farmer he framed for witchcraft, in an 1851 novel?
Non-Fiction: What tiny island is the subject of Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place?
Book Club: What author’s Tabloid Dreams includes a dozen stories based on real headlines, like Boy Born with Tattoo of Elvis and Every Man She Kisses Dies?
Authors: What author of Reversible Errors was appointed to help review Illinois’ death-row policy in 2000?
Book Bag: Who began his Dark Tower book series with the ominous line: “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed”?
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Yay, I know Children’s! Henry Coffin!
Children’s: No idea, but from the title I’d guess his/her name is Coffin
Classics: The House of Seven Gables.
Non-Fiction: I thought this was Haiti but it doesn’t sound small enough. Best I can do is somewhere in the Caribbean.
Book Club: ?
Authors: Scott Turow. I have the home state advantage on this one.
Book Bag: Stephen King
Book Bag: King
Stephen King. And, yes, House of Seven Gables?
::groan:: I knew one.
I’m really grasping today, but I think Classics must be The House of the Seven Gables. The only one I know for sure is Book Bag which is Stephen King. Not a good week for me!
Children’s: Henry Coffin
Classics: The House of Seven Gables
Non-Fiction: Antigua
Book Club: Robert Olen Butler
Authors: Scott Turow
Book Bag: Stephen King
Antigua!