Trivial Pursuit for Book Lovers
December 7, 2012
Children’s: Who included Lyin’ Larry, Screamin’ Millie and Reachin’ Richard in Falling Up, his final book of children’s poetry?
Classics: What war gives Jake Barnes the wound that renders him impotent, in The Sun Also Rises?
Non-Fiction: What ambitious U.S. political figure was the subject of Robert Caro’s The Path to Power, Means of Ascent and Master of the Senate?
Book Club: What American novelist is The Old Gringo, in Carlos Fuentes’ novel?
Authors: Who walked away from a Sun Microsystems vice-presidency to research her family’s slave roots for the novel Cane River?
Book Bag: What two words appear in the title of the first 17 J.D. Robb mysteries?
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Shel Silverstein
Spanish Civil War? No, I think it was WW I.
Children’s: Shel Silverstein
Classics: WW I
Non-Fiction: ?
Book Club: Ambrose Bierce
Authors: ?
Book Bag: ?
A pathetic showing today.
Shel Silverstein and WWI. Clueless about the rest. As usual.
1. Shel Silverstein
2. WWI
3. Lyndon Johnson
4. Ambrose Bierce
5. Lalita Tademy
6. in death?
You beat me! Lol
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You got them all right! There should be a prize for this!
IN DEATH! Again, thanks to Bookmans. Do you know annoying it is to alphabetize a million titles that are almost the same? Or what about those books that are “jointly” written by Nora Roberts AND J.D. Robb. Do you put them with Nora Roberts’s? Or J.D. Robb’s? Argh.
I guess I’d put them with Robb, since that’s the persona. How can you “jointly” write something with your pseudonym?
Speaking of Caro, have you read The Power Broker? It’s his biography of Robert Moses, who reshaped NYC and environs more than any other single person. I think it should be mandatory reading for anyone from NYC, and anyone interested in public policy vis a vis infrastructure and building.
I have not read it. My father said I might get more interested in biography as I got older but so far, no.
Children’s: Shel Silverstein
Classics: WWI
I got nothin’. Unless the Hemingway one is WWI, which I have the feeling it is not.
do not trust your feelings
Woot! I know one! Lyndon Johnson for non-fiction!
Children’s: Shel Silverstein
Classics: World War I
Non-Fiction: Lyndon B. Johnson
Book Club: Ambrose Bierce
Authors: Lalita Tademy
Book Bag: In Death