Book Memory Challenge

I saw this post on What Red Read yesterday (I'm a bit behind in my blog reading; she posted this in October) and thought it would be fun to test my bookish memory. I tried not to look at Red's answers so as not to influence my own and was mostly successful.

 

Here are the questions: 

 

Here are my answers:

 

1. Michael Ondaatje

2. Eragon

3. Of Mice and Men

4. NW, by Zadie Smith

5. The Thorn Birds

6. All I can think of is the movie Sweet November. Was it ever a book?

7. The Knife Of Never Letting Go

8. Magisterum Book One: The Iron Trial. I know it's kind if cheating, but it says Book One on the book, so maybe it counts. 

9. Harry Potter and the...

10. The Hunger Games (This was probably the easiest one. I had loads to choose from.)

 

 

Here is me checking my answers:

 

1. Easy peasy... Ondaatje is one of my favourite authors.

2. Check

3. Check

4. Check

5. Check

6. Nope, it was never a book, but this is where my brain got stuck.  My brain couldn't have come up with The Hunt for Red October?  Because that was actually a book before it was a movie.  Goodreads has a list, though I've heard of some of the books, others are a real stretch (May shouldn't count when they mean "may")

7. Not all the editions have a knife on the cover, but the one I was thinking of does, so Check.

8. I'm going to say, no.  I could have said, One Hundred Years of Solitude, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, One Day...

9. Check

10. Check.... super easy

 

I did pretty good, I think.  8 out of 10.  If anyone else does the memory challenge, please put your link in the comments so I can check it out.

What Red Read: Overreacting parents and YA fiction

So I was over at What Red Read and saw the post below.  Apparently there are some people up in arms about YA books.  They're too dark and disturbing, etc.  Some parent freaked out because they looked at a table or shelf of YA books and they were all the same.  I'm going to guess that she looked at a shelf of YA fantasy/paranormal books and saw all the vampire/supernatural -esque stuff.  Firstly, I'm so tired of people grouping YA in one big category.  You don't have to get YA titles like Twilight.  You can get Pretty Little Liars, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants or even some Sweet Valley High. 

Red mentions reading a lot of Stephen King and Alexander Dumas at around 13.  I started reading Stephen King around 13 or 14.  I also read a lot of "adult" books at that age.

See what else Red and others have had to say, click below.

What Red Read: Overreacting parents and YA fiction: "The interwebs, at least the book section of it, seems to be up-in-arms over a recent WSJ piece Darkness Too Visible by Meghan Cox Gurdon ab..."

Authors From A – Z, Almost

I thought I posted this a while ago… I’m going to blame baby brain…

I saw this meme on What Red Read and wondered if I had favourite authors for each letter of the alphabet. Well, the answer to that question is, no. I decided that I’d make an alphabetical list of authors I’ve enjoyed and think that others should read too, though there are a few favourites in there. Can I make it from A to Z? We’ll see.

A: Margaret Atwood
B: The Brontës (I know they’re more than one person, by I couldn’t pick one.)

C: Douglas Coupland

D: MaryJanice Davidson

E: George Eliot

F: Timothy Findley

G: Seth Grahame-Smith

H: Charlaine Harris

I: Anosh Irani

J: Henry James

K: Stephen King
L: Harper Lee
M: Yann Martel

N: Audrey Niffenegger

O: Michael Ondaatje
P: Sylvia Plath

Q:

R: J.K. Rowling
S: R.A. Salvatore
T: Miriam Toews

U:

V:
W: Virginia Woolf
X:
Y:
Z:

So I’m missing Q, U, V, X, Y and Z. I want to read The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, but I don’t even own it yet. I do own The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M.G. Vassanji, but I haven’t read it yet. I’ve never read Jane Urquhart, but maybe I should pick up a copy of Sanctuary Line? Maybe I should read some Yeats. I could not find any authors who have a last name starting with X. Is that crazy? I was looking on Amazon.ca. If anyone knows of one, please share.

If You’re Ever In Town… (Crazy Blog Hop)

I really like this week’s question from the Hop: "Which book blogger would you most like to meet in real life?"

I didn’t know how to narrow it down to just one. I decided to let everyone know about four bloggers, all of whom I follow and enjoy.

I’d really like to meet John Mutford at the Book Mine Set. I don’t know if/when that’ll happen since John’s way up there in the Northwest Territories.

Even though I’m not sure of her real name, I would like to meet Teacher from Whatcha Readin’, Books? We just seem to have really similar reading tastes and especially to dish over Stephen King.

I’d also like to meet Red, from What Read Red. I just always seem to end up on her blog!

Finally, I’d want to meet Mayowa from Pens with Cajones. He hasn’t posted in a while, but that’s because he’s working on his own writing!

It really was difficult to pick. There are so many great and interesting bloggers out there that I’d like to meet. My Google Reader is full of them. Who would you like to meet?