Trivial Pursuit for Booklovers
December 28, 2012
Children’s: What Entertainment Weekly columnist revamped the baby journal with Baby’s First Tattoo?
Classics: What educator wrote in Up From Slavery: “No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem”?
Non-Fiction: What British secret service did Peter Wright toil for, before writing the tell-all book Spycatcher?
Book Club: Who won a Pulitzer for her quiet tale of marital tolerance and endurance, Breathing Lessons?
Authors: What Samuel Beckett work boasts the uplifting line “We are all born mad. Some remain so”?
Book Bag: What Dublin author sets Ashling Kennedy in the cutthroat world of fashion magazines, in Sushi for Beginners?
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Non-Fiction: MI 6
Book Club: Anne Tyler
Authors: Waiting for Godot
Book Bag: Marian Keyes
I’m guessing the Spycatcher worked for MI-5. Other than that, I’m coming up empty.
I’m going to butcher this quote but here goes: “There is a sanity in being mad which none but madmen know.”
Happy New Year!! Thanks for being so awesome. Please continue that awesomeness and share it, ‘K?
Aha! The questioner questioned. The closest I could find to your possibly butchered quotation was this:
‘‘I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of being alone and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.” Khalil Gibran
Children’s: Jim Mullen
Classics: Booker T. Washington
Non-Fiction: M15
Book Club: Anne Tyler
Authors: Waiting for Godot
Book Bag: Marian Keyes