Trivial Pursuit for Book Lovers
November 4, 2011
Children’s: What popular teen novelist remembered his own Canadian childhood for his final book, Frenchtown Summer?
Classics: What ice-cream heir exposed the barbarity of the “factory farm” in Diet for a New America?
Non-Fiction: What book by poseur Frank Abagnale is subtitled: The Amazing True Story of the Most Extraordinary Liar in the History of Fun and Profit?
Book Club: What Don DeLillo epic recounts the adventures of Hitler Studies professor Jack Gladney?
Authors: What budding Argentinian novelist translated Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince for a local newspaper at the age of nine?
Book Bag: What 1986 sequel brought back the protagonist of The Bourne Identity for another mission?
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Necromancy Never Pays 
Okay, you’ve completely defeated me. I don’t know ANY.
Aw! I’ll give you a hint…it was the only Argentinian writer I know…
Non-Fiction: Catch Me if You Can (the book that convinced me that I never wanted to end up in a French jail).
Book Bag: The Bourne Supremacy?
This was a tough week!
They really were tough questions this week.
No clue. And I don’t know any Argentinian writers.
I only know Catch Me If You Can and The Bourne Supremacy (followed later by The Bourne Ultimatum).
I think I read all three Bourne books when I was….12, or thereabouts. Middle school, anyway. I wonder what my teachers thought, if they thought anything, of my pulling them out to read when I’d finished an assignment early.
Probably thank goodness she’s reading a book!
Children’s: Oh! I know this. It’s the guy who wrote the Chocolate War. But what the hell is his name?
Classics: No idea. Ben? Jerry? Baskin? Robbins? Edy? Breyer? Haagen? Dazs?
Non-Fiction: Catch Me if You Can
Book Club: One of my favorites — White Noise. This would make good conference reading. Maybe I’ll stick it in my bag for a reread.
Authors: No idea.
Book Bag: Bourne Supremacy? But I’m only guessing from the movie, which is also how I know the non-fiction question.
I knew those two movies, also. They were much bigger as movies than they ever were as books, I think.
Oh, and good guess-of-elimination on Robbins!
Really? Hee.
The only Argentinian writer I know is Borges. For what that’s worth.
Borges is the only Argentinian writer I know, too. So it’s worth a guess!
Children’s: Robert Cormier
Classics: John Robbins
Non-Fiction: Catch Me If You Can
Book Club: White Noise
Authors: Jorge Luis Borges
Book Bag: The Bourne Supremacy
Cormier! That was bugging the heck out of me.