Trivial Pursuit for Book Lovers
March 8, 2013
Children’s: What does the zebra named Zink have instead of stripes, in the Cherie Bennett story Zink?
Classics: Who sent a copy of her story of domestic madness, The Yellow Wallpaper, to the doctor who’d prescribed isolation for her own nervous disorder?
Non-Fiction: What famed TV chef returned to the basics, like how to properly boil an egg, in The Way to Cook?
Book Club: Whose novel October Light concerns a feud that begins when James Page’s shotgun silences the “endless simpering advertising” of his sister’s TV?
Authors: What Robert Heinlein saying because abbreviated by fans as “TANSTAAFL”?
Book Bag: What author introduced cultivated thief Bernie Rhodenbarr in the mystery novel Burglars Can’t Be Choosers?
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Necromancy Never Pays 
Children’s: Never heard of this one, but will guess spots, because that’s usually your option in kids’ books
Classics: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Non-Fiction: Julia Child. Bon Appetit!
Book Club: ?
Authors: ?
Book Bag: ?
Classics: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, I just a play version of that last month. It was really good!
http://stagewriteindy.blogspot.com/2013/02/yellow-wallpaper.html
Amazing that it was good. I wouldn’t have thought of that story as one to try to stage.
Spots..
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There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
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For the record, I have actually *read* The Yellow Wallpaper, but I’d no idea who wrote it. My fallback guess for any female writer known for having suffered from a “nervous disorder” is Sylvia Plath, but even before looking at the comments above, I knew that wasn’t right.
I only know one, but hooray, it is one others don’t know! “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.” It’s become my mantra.
It’s definitely something we repeat, too.
I did know who wrote The Yellow Wallpaper–one of my favorite stories. And that is all.
Gilman. What does the Authors question mean?
It’s Heinlein’s most famous expression of the philosophy that you don’t get nuthin’ for free. There’s always a price. As you can tell, my outlook and blog name were influenced by this.
I knew Gilman — that is awesome btw — and I nearly knew the Heinlein thing. It was told to me as TINSTAFL (there IS no such thing etc), and that’s what threw me off.
Someone was being prissy about grammar. “Ain’t” is the correct word, and the acronym should look practically Hawaiian, with all the a’s.
Children’s: polka dots
Classics: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Non-Fiction: Julia Child
Book Club: John Gardner
Authors: There’s Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
Book Bag: Lawrence Block