Because I'm trying to find some quick & easy blog posts, and because it's been over two weeks since I've written a review and I'm not quite ready to wade back into that miasma yet, here's a fun questionnaire. Or quiz. Or book meme. Call it what you will. I found it via Alley at What Red Read, who found it via Sarah at Sarah Says Read, whom I also follow but apparently missed.
1. Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
2. The Last Dragon Slayer by Jasper Fforde
3. This one is kinda tough, as beyond the Curious George books, I can't recall a main character by that name. I suppose that claiming that Pride & Prejudice as being about George Wickham is a bit of a stretch, eh? Okay, then, I'll go with the newest book in the series, Curious George Visits the (a?) Bookstore, which we obviously have on display in my bookstore.
4. Luckily I recently wrote my "What I read in October" post, so I quickly remembered How to be both [sic] by Ali Smith. Otherwise I'm sure my head would have been stuck on Alley's response of Zadie Smith.
5. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion was one of my favorite books last year. (Even though Alley and Sarah both answered this one, I feel I can rightfully claim it.)
6. The Three Junes by Julia Glass. Okay, had to use the ol' mental Rolodex on this one so that I could avoid what Alley and Sarah said.
7. Ummm...not sure about the knife answer. Does Philip Pullman's The Subtle Knife have an image of a knife on the cover? What about that nonfiction book from a year or so ago that was a history of the table fork? Can't remember its title. Guess I fail on this one.
8. I read Jojo Moyes's book, One Plus One, earlier this year. Can I get double points for that one to make up for my lack of knife answers?
9. I reckon I'll go with The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson, which is his memoir about growing up in Des Moines, Iowa. He called himself The Thunderbolt Kid as a child. (I had to work a Bryson book in there somehow!)
10. I guess that #10 is a gimme. I'll choose the film I most want to see this fall: The Imitation Game is the nonfiction book that the new Benedict Cumberbatch movie is based on -- Alan Turing and the Enigma Code.
I read so much (not to mention am surrounded by books every day at work) that the only one of these questions that was remotely challenging was the one about the knife on the cover. And even so, I was really compelled to cheat. Like looking up the real title and the cover of the fork book to see if there was a knife on the cover. How about you? Have you done this quiz? Which answer(s) did you find most challenging?
1. Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
2. The Last Dragon Slayer by Jasper Fforde
3. This one is kinda tough, as beyond the Curious George books, I can't recall a main character by that name. I suppose that claiming that Pride & Prejudice as being about George Wickham is a bit of a stretch, eh? Okay, then, I'll go with the newest book in the series, Curious George Visits the (a?) Bookstore, which we obviously have on display in my bookstore.
4. Luckily I recently wrote my "What I read in October" post, so I quickly remembered How to be both [sic] by Ali Smith. Otherwise I'm sure my head would have been stuck on Alley's response of Zadie Smith.
5. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion was one of my favorite books last year. (Even though Alley and Sarah both answered this one, I feel I can rightfully claim it.)
6. The Three Junes by Julia Glass. Okay, had to use the ol' mental Rolodex on this one so that I could avoid what Alley and Sarah said.
7. Ummm...not sure about the knife answer. Does Philip Pullman's The Subtle Knife have an image of a knife on the cover? What about that nonfiction book from a year or so ago that was a history of the table fork? Can't remember its title. Guess I fail on this one.
8. I read Jojo Moyes's book, One Plus One, earlier this year. Can I get double points for that one to make up for my lack of knife answers?
9. I reckon I'll go with The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson, which is his memoir about growing up in Des Moines, Iowa. He called himself The Thunderbolt Kid as a child. (I had to work a Bryson book in there somehow!)
10. I guess that #10 is a gimme. I'll choose the film I most want to see this fall: The Imitation Game is the nonfiction book that the new Benedict Cumberbatch movie is based on -- Alan Turing and the Enigma Code.
I read so much (not to mention am surrounded by books every day at work) that the only one of these questions that was remotely challenging was the one about the knife on the cover. And even so, I was really compelled to cheat. Like looking up the real title and the cover of the fork book to see if there was a knife on the cover. How about you? Have you done this quiz? Which answer(s) did you find most challenging?
I haven't done this meme (yet) but the knife thing would be very challenging for me too. I want to say, one of Jens Lapidus's books has a knife on the cover? But I can't remember for sure. It's a great meme though!
ReplyDeleteYou should do this one! I do think booksellers have an edge for this one simply because books are in our face all day long.
DeleteI would not be able to do all of these without cheating and looking at my book lists! Esp for the one with a knife on the cover -- that's a little more sinister than my reading tastes run...!
ReplyDeleteIt was hard not to get up to reference things. I didn't think it would be so difficult NOT to!
DeleteYAY for doing these meme/survey/quiz deals.
ReplyDeleteYou can ABSOLUTELY claim The Rosie Project since if it wasn't for you I don't know if I would have even read this book. And that would have been very sad.
It was so hard to not just look stuff up for this quiz. And I realized how often I'll just "double check" things when I'm writing
You're right -- it made me realize how much I Google during any blog post. I had no idea I was so dependent on that!
DeleteHooray for the Telegraph Avenue shout-out! That was such a fun readalong. :)
ReplyDeleteYeah, it was. And it surprised me that nobody else listed it, either. ;)
DeleteI did this in the comments of somebody's post - and the month one was really hard. In the end I remembered December by Elizabeth Winthrop, but I kinda panicked for a minute there. Even though it was just a quiz and I was sat in my bedroom. PANICKED.
ReplyDeleteAlso, did NOT know The Imitation Game was based on one particular book - I'll have to get hold of that one, thanks!
I haven't read the Alan Turing book, so I don't know if it counts or not...but I'm taking it.
DeleteI figured with the month in the title, folks might figure out a way to use books with March or May in the title that weren't actual month contexts. It would open up a few more titles that way.
What a fun meme! The Rosie Project was one of my favorites this year :)
ReplyDeleteI think the cover questions were the most challenging for me... but agreed, when you read a lot it can be kind of easy. But it was different! I enjoyed it :)
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