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« Reply #1560 on: February 19, 2011, 04:27:57 AM »


Welcome to Author! Author!  

This is a game in which the contestants match their wits with a  challenger, who suggests a character in literature, non- fiction or fiction. The challenger may or may not provide more clues, his prerogative,, and never more than one a day.


Once a day the challenger will say if the guesses are correct or not. The winning contestant gets lots of acclaim and the chance to pose the next challenge. If he does not want to post a new challenge he can say so and whoever does can begin a new game.

Of course you could look these up on google in an instant, what challenge is that? The  idea is to rack one's brain to try to remember where this particular character appeared and who wrote about him/ her. Should be great fun.

The challenger also has the option not to mention the name of the character, but only a description.


Authors used so far:

Author, Book, Character, Challenger, Post#, winner

Anonymous, Beowulf, Beowulf, PatH, #1301
Atwood, Margaret, The Blind Assassin, Gumtree, #277
Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice, Mary Bennett, #158
Baum, L. Frank, The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy, JoanK, #342
Blackmore, Richard, Lorna Doone, Lorna Doone, Frybabe, #462
Bronte, Emily, Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff, Gumtree, #252
Buchan, John, 39 steps, Richard Hannay, PatH, #396
Carroll, Louis, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice, JoanK, # 426
Cervantes, Don Quijote, Don Quijote, PatH, #701
Christie, Agatha, Hastings, JoanK, # 127
Christie, Agatha, Death on the Nile, Hercule Poirot, JoanK, #752
Clancy, Tom, Hunt for Red October, Frybabe, #553
Coetzee, J. M., Disgrace, David Little, Straudetwo, #1336
Collins, Wilkie, The Moonstone, Rachel Verinder, PatH, #311
Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness, Marlow, Gumtree, #226
Conroy, Pat, The Great Santini, Conroy's father, JudeS #1319
Cronin, A. J., The Citadel, Andrew Manson, JudeS, #1085
Davies, Robertson, The Cunning Man, Jonathan Hullah,  straudetwo, #1382
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, Crime and Punishment, Roskolnikov, JudeS, #1209, 1213
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, Study in Scarlet, Dr. Watson, PatH, #380
Dumas, Alexandre pere, The Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan, PatH, #939, 941
Eliot, George, Daniel Deronda, Gumtree, #190
Eliot, T. S., Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, Bustopher Jones, PatH, #110
Essex, Karen, Leonardo's Swans, Isabella d'Este, Mippy, #591
Faulkner, William, The Sound and the Fury, Caddy, 1429, 1439, Frybabe
Galsworthy, John, The Forsyte Saga, Irene, PatH, #615,620
George, Elizabeth, Lynley and Havers, Tomereader1, #168
Gilbert, W. S., The Savoy Operas, Frederick, or the Pirate King, #1108, 1111, 1112
Goodman, Carol, The Night Villa, the slave girl, Gumtree, # 1165
Greene, Graham, The Third Man, Holly Martins, PatH, ##1175, 1179
Grey, Zane, Riders of the Purple Sage, Frybabe, #294, 299
Henry, O. Mammon and the Archer, Anthony Rockwall, Ginny  #537
James, Henry, Washington Square, straudetwo, #981, 982
James, Henry, Wings of a Dove, Kidsal, #83
Keller, Helen, The Story of my Life, Anne Sullivan, JoanK #958
Lagerlof, Selma, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, Nils Holgersson, JudeS #899
Lamb, Charles and Mary, Tales From Shakespeare, Macbeth, JoanK, #1301
LeFanu, Sheridan, Carmilla, roshanarose, #769
Maupin, Armistead, Tales of the City, rosemarykaye, #1553, pedln
McCourt, Frank, Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt, JoanK, #1062
Melville, Herman, Moby-Dick, the whale, PatH, #482
Miller,Arthur, Death of a Salesman, Gumtree, #1005, 1006
Milton, John, Paradise Lost, Frybabe, #413
Mitford, Nancy, roshanarose, #839, 840
Murdoch, Iris, The Sea, the Sea, Charles Arrowby, straudetwo, #1197, 1198
Nabokov, Vladimir, Lolita, Lolita, JudeS, #1124
O’Brian, Patrick, Master and Commander, Jack Aubrey, JudeS, #319
Orwell, George, Frybabe, #97
Peterson, Roger Tory, Field guide to the Eastern Birds, Mockingbird, JoanK #202
Potter, Beatrix, Jemima Puddleduck, rosemarykaye, #1478 pedln, #1482 deems2
Plutarch, ----, Themistocles, roshanarose, #1025, 1027
Preston, Douglas, Dinosaurs in the attic, Frybabe, #1456 rosemarykaye
Rand, Ayn, We the Living, Frybabe, #498, 502
Rowling, J. K, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry, PatH, #1409
Rhys, Jean, Wide Sargasso Sea, Jane Eyre, straudetwo, #1230
Scott, Sir Walter, Ivanhoe, Ginny, #602
Sewall, Anna, Black Beauty, Frybabe, #1490, Gumtree
Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein, the monster, PatH, #451
Smith, Alexander McCall, Mma Ramotswe, JudeS, #145
Smith, Alexander McCall, 44Scotland Street, Cyril, rosemarykaye, #1238, 1243
Spark, Muriel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Miss Brodie, Gumtree, #671, 672
Steinbeck , John, Journal of a Novel, Gumtree, #53, 60
Stoker, Bram, Dracula, Jonathan Harker, JudeS, #631, 632
Stone, Irving, Depths of Glory, Camille Pisarro, Gumtree, #802
Tolkien, J. R. R., Lord of the Rings, Frodo, PatH, #238, 241
Tolstoy, Leo, War and Peace, Pierre Bezukhov, PatH, #1267
Trollope, Joanna, The Best of Friends, Sophie, Mippy, #218
Tyler, Anne, Digging to America, Maryam Yazdan,Mippy, #735
Vreeland, Susan, The Forest Lover, Emily Carr, Mippy, #364
Weir, Alison, Innocent Traitor, Lady Jane Gray, roshanrose, #883
Wethers, Beck, Left for Dead, Ginny, #29
Windsor, Kathleen, Forever Amber, Amber, Traude, #927, 928
Wodehouse, P. G., Bertie Wooster, PatH, #1046, 1048
Woolf, Virginia, Flush, Gumtree, #1511, 1513, rosemarykaye
Woolf, Virginia, Orlando, Orlando, PatH, #1141
Xenophon, Frybabe, #173
Zola, Emile, Germinal, Etienne Lentier, Gumtree, #1352


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Gumtree - I love the book, but one friend I lent it to gave it back half read and said "it's just an excuse to write about gays" - I was really surprised because I don't agree at all, and as I mentioned earlier, husband enjoyed it, as have many other friends.  IMO it encapsulates what I imagine to be the San Francisco of the 70s.  I visited SF in 1979, and also stayed with a friend in Berkeley in the early 80s, and the book reminds me of that time, - something about the general feeling of freedom and experiment  (although I hasten to add that the high point of my personal experience there was seeing a humming bird in the botanical garden!)

 I particularly enjoy Anna Madrigal (the landlady), but I don't know how much that is coloured by having seen the TV series, in which Olympia Dukakis was just wonderful.

It's an easy quick read if you want to try it.

Roshanarose - thanks, I am still in bed at 9.23am Saturday!  it is so quiet here, it's like a rest cure. Am trying to avoid thinking about what is past and what is to come (which may well be good, but will inevitably involve more upheaval), and just enjoy the moment  :).  Miss my cats though - they would normally be curled up on my bed by now, but they are already down in Edinburgh with my husband.

Rosemary

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« Reply #1561 on: February 19, 2011, 11:27:28 AM »
HOORAY!  A winner!  It looks like Pedln got in ahead of Traude, but you two can always fight a virtual duel for the honor.

As usual, some of the clues seem more obvious with hindsight, but I don't think I would ever have gotten it.

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« Reply #1562 on: February 19, 2011, 11:29:40 AM »
No, no real red herrings, Rosemary, except maybe saying this would be easy.  And then “The South” was a conundrum.  South where?  Traude, I was so impressed that right off the bat you knew about the Amy Tan and McCall Smith connections.  Wow.  Liberal city was a good clue for me, along with the transportation and unconventional marriage.  As we used to tell our Quiz Bowl kids when practicing for a tournament, “If you only know of one possible answer, give it.”  And Maupin was the only one I knew to be gay and writing about San Francisco. Anyway, it was a very good puzzling selection.  Fun.

I’ve spent a little time in the area.  My middle daughter has lived mostly in Berkeley and Oakland for over 20 years and my youngest lived a few years in Santa Cruz.  They both had just started grad school right before the big quake of ’89.

Rosemary, enjoy your sojurn in the country with your friends before you have to tackle the big stuff.  Can you stay there a while or do the girls have to start new schools on Monday?

I see that Netflix has Tales of the City (three discs) and also More Tales of the City.

Please give me a couple days to get some clues ready, and I also need to do some checking back and make sure I don’t pick something that has already been done.

Author, Character, Book – right??

pedln

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« Reply #1563 on: February 19, 2011, 11:39:23 AM »
Ok, are you ready?  I hope my clues will make sense.


AUTHOR  I completed one novel

rosemarykaye

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« Reply #1564 on: February 19, 2011, 11:42:26 AM »
Sorry about "The South" - I suppose I thought that as most of you are American it would obviously be that south!

No changes of schools yet - Anna boards and doesn't want to change school at all, Madeleine will stay at her current school till Easter (which means almost an hour driving each way, but thankfully it's only for 6 weeks), then she will move to her new Edinburgh school after Easter.

I really enjoyed the TV series of Tales of the City, and watched it again on DVD recently.

Pedln, looking forward to the next quiz - it's more fun guessing than setting, IMO!

Rosemary

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« Reply #1565 on: February 19, 2011, 03:43:27 PM »
I hadn't heard of the book or the TV series, but it sounds like something i would enjoy. i've never seen Olivia Dukakis where she disddn't do a great job!

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« Reply #1566 on: February 19, 2011, 05:11:00 PM »
At last my conscience is clear again.  The list of books at the top of this page is up to date.  Sorry it had to go into your post, rosemarykaye, there's no way of inserting an extra post.

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« Reply #1567 on: February 19, 2011, 07:20:42 PM »
PatH, that's a big job that you have, getting all the authors and books in the heading.

Okay, I hope this is right – a clue for Author, Book, and Character?
No more until tomorrow?  I bet somebody will get this right off the bat.

Author:  I completed one novel

Book:  Set in a fictional town, based on a real town

Character:  I am the teen-aged narrator

roshanarose

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« Reply #1568 on: February 19, 2011, 11:34:43 PM »
Peyton Place
Grace Metalious (spelling?)
Alison McKenzie

A guess.
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?  - Plato

straudetwo

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« Reply #1569 on: February 20, 2011, 07:34:46 AM »
I couldn't remember the title at first, but it surfaced.

Book : To Kill A Mockingbird
(A novel about the segregated American South, not that many decades ago.)

Author : Harper Lee (a childhood friend of Truman Capote)

Child narrator: Scout
(She calls her father by his first name, Atticus. He is  a lawyer who saves a falsely accused black man from a lynch mob.


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« Reply #1570 on: February 20, 2011, 10:21:02 AM »
Beautiful - Traude!
Reading is an art and the reader an artist. Holbrook Jackson

rosemarykaye

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« Reply #1571 on: February 20, 2011, 11:35:57 AM »
Good heavens, I hadn't even started!  Well done  ;D

pedln

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« Reply #1572 on: February 20, 2011, 12:41:52 PM »
Sorry, Ladies, but your excellent suggestions do not quite hit the mark.  How does this work?  Are you supposed to guess all three A,B, and C or just the author.  If y ou get the A &B here, that should be enough.

Author:  I completed one novel
Author:  I majored in journalism and worked for a newspaper.

Book:  Set in a fictional town, based on a real town
Book:  When this book was first published a little over 25 years ago it sold over one million copies.

Character:  I am the teen-aged narrator
Character:  I think what my grandfather is doing is okay


roshanarose

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« Reply #1573 on: February 20, 2011, 11:09:19 PM »
Excellent work Straude!
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?  - Plato

pedln

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« Reply #1574 on: February 21, 2011, 10:19:44 AM »
What?  No guesses for a day?  Well, I'll add one more clue for the author


Author:  I also wrote family stories dictated by my parents.

Gumtree

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« Reply #1575 on: February 21, 2011, 10:59:41 AM »
Pedln:  No guess from me because no clue as to who this could be.
Reading is an art and the reader an artist. Holbrook Jackson

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« Reply #1576 on: February 21, 2011, 11:00:24 AM »
I'm stumped.  I'll have to think harder.

pedln

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« Reply #1577 on: February 21, 2011, 11:16:55 AM »
It's probably easier when the clues are all grouped.  Adding the book and character for today. Surely someone will guess this now.

Author:  I completed one novel
Author:  I majored in journalism and worked for a newspaper.
Author:  I also wrote family stories dictated by my parents.

Book:  Set in a fictional town, based on a real town
Book:  When this book was first published a little over 25 years ago it sold over one million copies.
Book:  There's a tree that's named after the town

Character:  I am the teen-aged narrator
Character:  I think what my grandfather is doing is okay
Character:  I went fishing and got run over by a train.  Did you see that on TV?


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« Reply #1578 on: February 21, 2011, 04:57:10 PM »
pedln, nothing comes to mind at the moment.
Could we have another clue about the author? He/she seems to have been very close to his/her parents.

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« Reply #1579 on: February 21, 2011, 05:50:03 PM »
Author:  I completed one novel
Author:  I majored in journalism and worked for a newspaper.
Author:  I also wrote family stories dictated by my parents.
Author: When I was diagnosed with a serious illness I made my stories into a novel

Book:  Set in a fictional town, based on a real town
Book:  When this book was first published a little over 25 years ago it sold over one million copies.
Book:  There's a tree that's named after the town
Book:  The name of the town, rife with gossip, is in the title

Character:  I am the teen-aged narrator
Character:  I think what my grandfather is doing is okay
Character:  I went fishing and got run over by a train.  Did you see that on TV?
Character:  Grandpa said a wife was cheaper than a housekeeper and that's why he married Miss ___________  three weeks after Grandma died.


straudetwo

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« Reply #1580 on: February 23, 2011, 02:14:17 PM »
No posts for two days?  Oh my  ;D 

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« Reply #1581 on: February 23, 2011, 03:26:12 PM »
Sorry, I'm still stumped.

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« Reply #1582 on: February 23, 2011, 03:49:25 PM »
Me too, though there is something playing around at the back of my mind that makes me think I should know this.  Unfortunately that is where it is staying   ???

pedln

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« Reply #1583 on: February 23, 2011, 04:26:12 PM »
Author:  I completed one novel
Author:  I majored in journalism and worked for a newspaper.
Author:  I also wrote family stories dictated by my parents.
Author: When I was diagnosed with a serious illness I made my stories into a novel
Author:I didn't have time to finish my second novel. It was published incomplete

Book:  Set in a fictional town, based on a real town
Book:  When this book was first published a little over 25 years ago it sold over one million copies.
Book:  There's a tree that's named after the town
Book:  The name of the town, rife with gossip, is in the title
Book: Although the book starts with one death and ends with another it is also a coming of age novel.

Character:  I am the teen-aged narrator
Character:  I think what my grandfather is doing is okay
Character:  I went fishing and got run over by a train.  Did you see that on TV?
Character:  Grandpa said a wife was cheaper than a housekeeper and that's why he married Miss ___________  three weeks after Grandma died.
Character:  My mother said Miss ______ was almost a damn Yankee, her coming from Baltimore.  I gave her and Grandpa driving lessons -- the first car in our town.

Surely I'm not the only damn Yankee who's read this book.  After all, it was a book-of-the-month club alternate in 1989 (or thereabouts).    :-X     Sure glad I didn't choose a Ferrol Sams.

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« Reply #1584 on: February 23, 2011, 05:49:30 PM »
Sure glad I didn't choose a Ferrol Sams.

So am I, since I never heard of Ferrol Sams.

pedln

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« Reply #1585 on: February 23, 2011, 09:11:55 PM »
He's really good, a doctor from Griffin, Georgia, has written three rather autobiographical novels from childhood throught med school -- Run with the Horsemen, Whisper of the River, When all the World was Young.


The very last clues

1924-1990
Commerce

__________    ____________    Tree.

rosemarykaye

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« Reply #1586 on: February 24, 2011, 01:26:34 AM »
All I can think of is A Tree Grown In Brooklyn, so I think I must give up.  I don't think I can have read this novel - at least I hope I haven't!

Rosemary

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« Reply #1587 on: February 24, 2011, 01:42:10 AM »
You and me both Rosemary - I'm pretty sure I don't know anything about the book or the author...  Maybe it will turn out to be something else for my TBR pile
Reading is an art and the reader an artist. Holbrook Jackson

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« Reply #1588 on: February 24, 2011, 08:06:44 AM »
Yet again, obfuscation sets in.
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?  - Plato

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« Reply #1589 on: February 24, 2011, 10:49:03 AM »
It's beginning to ring a very faint bell.

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« Reply #1590 on: February 24, 2011, 12:25:19 PM »
I have found out what it is, but only by digging around on the internet - I haven't read it and I had never even heard of it, so I will keep quiet and see if anyone gets it by the proper means   :)

I don't think any of we non-Americans would have had a hope!  Good quiz Pedln!

Rosemary

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« Reply #1591 on: February 24, 2011, 12:27:10 PM »
Pedln, nothing at all comes to my mind, except the certainty that I never read the book in question. Sorry.

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« Reply #1592 on: February 24, 2011, 03:28:39 PM »
I dimly remember a movie where a boy goes fishing and gets run over by a train, but can't remember the name. Was it "Fried green Tomatoes"?

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« Reply #1593 on: February 24, 2011, 05:43:09 PM »
JoanK, I had forgotten about that happening in Fried Green Tomatoes.  No, that is not the book  and Fannie Flagg is not the author.  That was a little boy there and he lost his arm.

No, Will Tweedy escaped harm by lying flat down and letting the train roll over him.  He had been on the trestle that was over the river.

Rosemary, if you have found the book or the author, speak up.  After all, you can't expect somethng to be in your brain if it's never had a chance to go there.    ;D

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« Reply #1594 on: February 24, 2011, 06:14:17 PM »
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns?

I take no credit for this if it's right, I found it on a site about novels set in the southern states.

The teenager appears to be called Will Tweedy.  Please do tell us about the book - the synopsis makes it look good.

Pedln - many things are "not in my brain" that have had plenty of chances to go there - and many did, but sadly did not remain.... :D

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« Reply #1595 on: February 24, 2011, 08:45:31 PM »
Rosemary, congratulations, you are absolutely right with Olive Ann Burns and Cold Sassy Tree.  To everyone else, I apologize for picking something so obscure.  I didn't realize it was.  I'm not sure which I did first, see it on TV or read the book.  And I remember discussions with friends about whether Olive Ann Burns was writing a second novel or not.  Have not read that one.

The town of Cold Sassy is based on Harmony Grove, which later became Commerce, Georgia.  Basically the book is about life in a small southern town in the early days of the 20th century, narrated by young Will Tweedy.  The big scandal is that Will's grandfather has married Miss Love, this young woman from Baltimore, three weeks after his wife of many years died.  Of course  Will's parents and the rest of the family are appalled.  What will people think.

Olive Ann Burns was primarily a journalist, but when she was diagosed with cancer in 1975 she started to put her family stories in the form of a novel.  It's nice to know, that unlike Mary Ann Schafer (Guernsey Potato Peel Society), she at least was able to know about the success of her work.

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« Reply #1596 on: February 25, 2011, 02:34:26 PM »
pedln,  before Pat puts this quiz ad acta, , please tell us when the train event took place. I'd love to know
because my life falls neatly into two parts -  before our coming to this country, and after.  It has become a gauge, a test of sorts,  of what Icould and should ostensibly have known.  :)

One quick question: One clue said the author wrote (other) 'stories dictated by the grandfather'. Was 'dictated' to be taken literally, and what were the stories about ?









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« Reply #1597 on: February 25, 2011, 04:39:19 PM »
The author clue was:    I also wrote family stories dictated by my (the author's)  parents.

Perhaps "told" might be more appropriate than "dictated."  We all have heard stories about other family members, neighbors, and friends told by our families.  I remember as a kid being fascinated with family  stories about Nettie Lee, a distant cousin not known for her housekeeping skills. As for the train incident -- the story is set in the early years of the 20th century -- way before any of us were around.

Olive Ann Burns, and Ferrol Sams, too --  both good reads.  Fiction based on real life.

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« Reply #1598 on: February 26, 2011, 08:09:55 AM »
Rosemarykaye, are you going to assume the burden of winning and do the next quiz?  We could draw lots or ask for volunteers.  I'm glad you figured it out.  I've certainly heard of the book, but haven't read it.  Looks like I ought to.

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« Reply #1599 on: February 26, 2011, 10:51:20 AM »
Yes Pat - I too now want to read this book that I had never heard of - I have just looked at it on Amazon and it is not too expensive (typically my library does not have it) so I am sorely tempted, blithely ignoring my TBR list, which, as I think Barb said, is set to outlive me by several centuries even if I live to be 100.

I am happy to do another quiz, but if it turns out to be no good, I'm also happy for someone else to take over - whatever!  So here it is:

Author:       was born in Yorkshire and is still alive

Book:         would probably be described as a "novella"

Character:  has a life changing experience