Trivial Pursuit For Book Lovers
January 18, 2013
Children’s: What form of word play does Jon Agee celebrate in Go Hang a Salami! I’m a Lasagna Hog! and Sit on a Potato Pan, Otis?
Classics: What Washington Irving tale is subtitled a Posthumous Writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker?
Non-Fiction: What Irish writer does R.F. Foster dub The Arch-Poet and The Apprentice Mage in biography titles?
Book Club: What novel earned John Updike a Time magazine cover in 1968, for capturing the essence of “the adulterous society”?
Authors: What author acted as an intermediary between Castro and Mitterrand, to free imprisoned Cuban poet Armando Valladares?
Book Bag: Who penned four mysteries starring androgynous Oxford don Hilary Tamar?
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I’m so excited because I know children’s – palindrome!!
Children’s: Wow, don’t even need the book to know it’s palindrome.
Classics: Rip van Winkle
Non-Fiction: Yeats
Book Club: ? I feel like I should know this one…
Authors: ?
Book Bag: Ooh, finally a mystery author I know! Sarah Caudwell!
PALINDROME!!! (Ipreferpi)/dunno/dunno/dunno/dunno/dunno.
Classics: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Book Club: I think one of the Rabbit books
Palindrome
Rip Van Winkle
Children’s: palindrome
Classics: Rip Van Winkle
Non-Fiction: Yeats
Book Club: Couples
Authors: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Book Bag: Sarah Caudwell