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roshanarose

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« Reply #1720 on: April 01, 2011, 10:29:49 PM »


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
Bennett, Alan, Uncommon Reader, Queen Elizabeth II, rosemarykaye, #1605, pedln
Blackmore, Richard, Lorna Doone, Lorna Doone, Frybabe, #462
Bronte, Emily, Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff, Gumtree, #252
Buchan, John, 39 steps, Richard Hannay, PatH, #396
Burns, Olive, Cold Sassy Tree, pedln, #1594, rosemarykaye
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
Hardy, Thomas, Far From the Madding Crowd, roshanarose, #1741, rosemarykaye
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
Li, Cunxin, Mao's Last Dancer, Li Cunxin, Gumtree, #1713, roshanarose
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
Pearl, Matthew, The Dante Club, pedln, #1629, deems 2
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
Saramago, Jose, Blindness, deems 2, #1652, straudetwo
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
Stead, Christina, The Man Who Loved Children, straudetwo, #1690, Gumtree
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


Only the latest heading is up to date.































Gumtree - You girding is an interesting thought :o  Yes.  It was Lee Marvin who loved marlin fishing.  The biggest fishing adventure I had was fishing for mega trout on Lake Taupo in New Zealand.  It was so much fun.  We took the mega trout back to our hotel and the chef cooked it to order - yummy.

straudetwo - Thanks for your congratulations.  If I answered "effortlessly" one can be assured that it is just about the only thing I do "effortlessly" these days.  ;)
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 #1721 on: April 02, 2011, 12:31:50 AM »
Traude: Thank you. Li Cunxin is indeed a remarkable person. He has outstanding physical, inner and moral strengths and his resilience and determination are indeed enviable. His story is one of perseverance in the face of poverty, and what must have been loneliness and intense longing for his family and his home especially during those first long years of training. He has been an inspiration to many.
Reading is an art and the reader an artist. Holbrook Jackson

roshanarose

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« Reply #1722 on: April 04, 2011, 12:08:40 AM »
Oooooh.  So sorry to be late.  I have been draining my brain on a theory in the Classics Book Club re The Odyssey and Colonisation.  Soon, I promise.  Brain tired out now.
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

roshanarose

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« Reply #1723 on: April 05, 2011, 10:17:44 AM »
Hmmmm - My PC had a dummy spit this pm.  I completely lost a poem in Babr's forum and my clues in this.  So here I go again:

Author :  Born poor, barely above the status of the laboring class.


Book:  One major character and three minor characters make up the protagonists.
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 #1724 on: April 05, 2011, 04:15:23 PM »
Hmmm! Is there a character clue?

roshanarose

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« Reply #1725 on: April 05, 2011, 10:49:46 PM »

Author :  Born poor, barely above the status of the laboring class.
The eldest of four children, had to home schooled by his mother at first.



Book:  One major character and three minor characters make up the protagonists.
The major character inherits a large property.

What sort of character clue would you like JoanK.?
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

Gumtree

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Re: Author! Author!
« Reply #1726 on: April 06, 2011, 05:54:34 AM »
H'mm H'mmmm H'mmmmmmm ?

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« Reply #1727 on: April 06, 2011, 06:17:38 AM »
And more hmmmmmm......

roshanarose

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« Reply #1728 on: April 06, 2011, 11:47:36 AM »
C'mon guys.  They even made a film of this novel, c.Alfie, and two of the actors are both alive and well and still making movies.
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

Gumtree

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« Reply #1729 on: April 06, 2011, 12:24:20 PM »
No, I'll need more clues.


Was interested last night watch 1st Tuesday Book Club discussing Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children  which was the subject here a couple of weeks ago.

It was most revealing that those on the panel who had read the book in the past had found it hard to read again now and while they appreciated Stead's achievement thought the book too claustrophobic.  Those who had not read it before were divided in their opinion - one for and one against.

It's made me rethink plans to reread Stead - maybe I should leave well alone.
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roshanarose

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« Reply #1730 on: April 06, 2011, 10:23:08 PM »
Gum - Yes I watched the 1st Tuesday's Book Club as well.  In general I think that they gave the book a caning, leaving me with the feeling that after what you had said about it that I should read it for myself.  I watched the program about Lake Mungo - very disturbing.

Author:   Born poor, barely above the status of the laboring class.
The eldest of four children, had to be home schooled by his mother at first.
A sickly child he began school at eight showing particular interest in literary, biblical and local lore.

Book:  One major character and three minor characters make up the protagonists.
The major character inherits a large property.
After seeing the major character from a distance one of the lesser characters becomes infatuated.








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 #1731 on: April 06, 2011, 11:35:10 PM »
That's got to be recognizable, only I'm not recognizing it.

roshanarose

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« Reply #1732 on: April 07, 2011, 08:59:27 AM »
The author is from a particular part of the UK which may or may not be actual. 
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 #1733 on: April 07, 2011, 06:18:23 PM »
So far, there's one concrete clue : the book was made into a film about the time of Alfie.

The author, one of four children,  was home-schooled - something that families living in abject poverty cannot afford.

The last clue regarding the author's provenance from a place that or may not be "actual" only adds to the mystery.

Frybabe

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« Reply #1734 on: April 07, 2011, 06:33:33 PM »
Which Alfie, the one with Michael Caine (1996) or the one with June Law (2004)?

This sounds like a Jane Austen type story what with the inheritance and infatuation from a distance - but this is a male author.

roshanarose

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« Reply #1735 on: April 07, 2011, 10:38:16 PM »
I will comment on Frybabe and straudetwo comments first.

It was the first (and best) Alfie with Michael Caine, but your date is wrong Fry, it came out in 1966 not 1996.  The movie of this novel came out a year earlier.

I am so sorry, straudetwo, I mean that the story is set in a place in the UK which may or may not be actual.  If I gave the name it would give it away immediately.

Author:   Born poor, barely above the status of the laboring class.
The eldest of four children, had to be home schooled by his mother at first.
A sickly child he began school at eight showing particular interest in literary, biblical and local lore.
The author studied the Classics and French after finishing school.

Book:  One major character and three minor characters make up the protagonists.
The major character inherits a large property.
After seeing the major character from a distance one of the lesser characters becomes infatuated.
The major character helps to save the life of the character who is infatuated with her.





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 #1736 on: April 07, 2011, 11:06:00 PM »
oops! Sorry for the typo. Yes, 1966, and I agree.

rosemarykaye

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« Reply #1737 on: April 08, 2011, 02:53:00 AM »
Is it anything to do with Julie Christie?

Rosemary

roshanarose

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« Reply #1738 on: April 08, 2011, 09:52:09 AM »
Rosemary - Yes!
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 #1739 on: April 08, 2011, 10:16:38 AM »
Is the author Ray Bradbury ?
And the book Fahrenheit 451 ?

roshanarose

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« Reply #1740 on: April 08, 2011, 09:59:35 PM »
Sorry, straudetwo it is not Ray Bradbury.  This novel is very "earthy".

Rosemary you are on the right track.  Unintended Pun there somewhere.

Author:   Born poor, barely above the status of the laboring class.
The eldest of four children, had to be home schooled by his mother at first.
A sickly child he began school at eight showing particular interest in literary, biblical and local lore.
The author studied the Classics and French after finishing school.
He began writing poetry.  Also wrote his first novel which was published anonymously in 1871.

Book:  One major character and three minor characters make up the protagonists.
The major character inherits a large property.
After seeing the major character from a distance one of the lesser characters (Tom)becomes infatuated.
The major character helps to save the life of the character (Tom) who is infatuated with her.
[I will call the 'infatuated' character, Tom.  Although not his real name I am hoping to keep the flow by using it].
After the major character saves Tom, his infatuation turns to love which, unfortunately for him, is not reciprocated.




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

rosemarykaye

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« Reply #1741 on: April 09, 2011, 02:19:13 AM »
Is the author Thomas Hardy?  Far From The Madding Crowd?

roshanarose

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« Reply #1742 on: April 09, 2011, 03:25:25 AM »
H U R R A H

Rosemary is our new champion.  I am glad you got it R, with three interested suitors it was going to get kind of difficult and confusing giving clues.  i
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

rosemarykaye

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« Reply #1743 on: April 09, 2011, 04:50:35 AM »
Thanks Roshanarose - it was the film clue that got me thinking.  The ironic thing was, I thought that I had (illegally, as in I was not old enough for the film certificate)) seen Julie Christie in Ryan's Daughter at around that time - so I could not link up that film with an author.  Then I eventually realised that it was Sarah Miles I had seen in Ryan's Daughter - I think I saw FFTMC later.

Oh well, my aged brain cells got there in the end....

Rosemary

PS Will think about new quiz over the w/e - off to the East Neuk today and hope to walk part of the coastal path with visiting friends.  As I type, the sun is shining over the rooftops of Edinburgh, and the Fife hills look misty blue across the Forth.

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« Reply #1744 on: April 09, 2011, 12:19:15 PM »
Good one Roshanarose - I had just got to rolling the 'writing poetry' and 1871 date around in my mind - hadn't quite reached Hardy though -

Congratulations to Rosemary -

 Julie Christie - one of my most unfavourite actors of all time. She never convinces me of anything.
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« Reply #1745 on: April 09, 2011, 12:35:27 PM »
Bravo, Rosemary.  And the clues were great, Roshana, but alas, my thoughts were empty.

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« Reply #1746 on: April 09, 2011, 05:13:13 PM »
Great, Rosemary !  I'm afraid what I know best is Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscurre.
Happy weekend to all.

roshanarose

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« Reply #1747 on: April 09, 2011, 10:53:20 PM »
straudetwo - Mt two favourite Hardy's are "Far from the Madding Crowd" and "Tess of the d'Urbervilles".  I read "Jude the Obscure" in my teens and I remember that it was all a bit overpowering for me.  When Old Father Time "solves" his parents' poverty problems, I actually felt as if I had been punched in the stomach.  I love his poetry too.  "The Ruined Maid" is a favourite.  Evidently Hardy outraged the Victorian sensibilities so much and was treated to so much outraged criticism he gave up novel writing and turned to poetry.  

FYI - The cast of the movie "FFTMC" is:

Bathsheba Everdene - Julie Christie
Gabriel Oak - Alan Bates
Bolderwood - Peter Finch
Sergeant Frank Troy - Terrence Stamp

Worth another read and look for me.

"The Ruined Maid"
Thomas Hardy c1901

"O 'Melia, my dear, this does everything crown!
Who could have supposed I should meet you in Town?
And whence such fair garments, such prosperi-ty?"
"O didn't you know I'd been ruined?" said she.

"You left us in tatters, without shoes or socks,
Tired of digging potatoes, and spudding up docks;
And now you've gay bracelets and bright feathers three!"
"Yes: that's how we dress when we're ruined," said she.

-"At home in the barton you said 'thee' and 'thou,'
And 'thik oon,' and 'theäs oon,' and 't'other'; but now
Your talking quite fits 'ee for high compa-ny!"
"Some polish is gained with one's ruin," said she.

"Your hands were like paws then, your face blue and bleak
But now I'm bewitched by your delicate cheek,
And your little gloves fit as on any la-dy!"
"We never do work when we're ruined," said she.

"You used to call home-life a hag-ridden dream,
And you'd sigh, and you'd sock; but at present you seem
To know not of megrims or melancho-ly!"
"True. One's pretty lively when ruined," said she.

"I wish I had feathers, a fine sweeping gown,
And a delicate face, and could strut about Town!"
"My dear a raw country girl, such as you be,
Cannot quite expect that. You ain't ruined," said she.

I love Hardy's use of irony with this poem.  He thumbs his nose at Victorian society who were outraged by his books and sums it all up in this wee masterpiece. 

 
 
 

 
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« Reply #1748 on: April 10, 2011, 02:59:08 AM »
Thanks for that Hardy poem Roshanarose...

I think I 'like' Hardy's  The Mayor of Casterbridge and The Woodlanders best but Jude the Obscure is probably his masterpiece. I wonder if anyone would be interested in reading something by Hardy for a discussion - must ask the powers that be...
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« Reply #1749 on: April 10, 2011, 07:48:33 AM »
Gumtree, what an excellent idea !

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« Reply #1750 on: April 13, 2011, 10:50:59 PM »
I've finally gotten the heading up to date again. I really like the way these quizzes have been going.  They've been hard, but interesting.  Not everyone has known the answers.  (Of the last 4, the only one I could possibly have gotten was the Hardy, and Rosemary beat me to it.)  But if you don't know the answer to one, you might to the next.

I hope no one gets discouraged if they don't get anything for a while.   Your turn will come.

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« Reply #1751 on: April 14, 2011, 04:02:52 AM »
PatH Thanks for hosting this board and keeping an eye on proceedings - I know it involves some work for you but you always make it sound like a labour of love - thank you for all you do.

  I love this game and am never discouraged when I don't 'get it' - it's such fun - though sometimes I could cheerfully kick myself for not coming up with the answer.

.  I think all readers love to revisit 'old forgotton far off' things  and to learn of others one has missed.- somehow, even when I don't have a glimmer of an idea to work on, the clues still make me think...and think again.

And I love going into battle with such a group of perceptive readers as are our fellow contestants. What more could we want!

  Even the 'prize' for the winner has its own reward.

Reading is an art and the reader an artist. Holbrook Jackson

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« Reply #1752 on: April 14, 2011, 04:19:00 AM »
PatH - thanks for posting as I had completely forgotten that it was my turn. 

Off to Musselburgh just now to deliver daughter to choir course, but will think on the bus (there won't be much conversation from her at 9am!), and hope to be back with something later today or tomorrow.

And yes, i absolutely endorse everything Gumtree said - I love this quiz and have already learned lots from it; thanks for all your hard work.

Rosemary

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« Reply #1753 on: April 15, 2011, 05:24:36 AM »
Apologies for the delay, here is the new quiz:

Author:       Born in London, but has lived in at least two other countries

Book:         Author's first; very successful, and controversial at the time

Character:  Is forced to leave a comfortable but dull, middle-class, existence by a sudden change in personal circumstances

rosemary

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« Reply #1754 on: April 16, 2011, 04:32:46 AM »
I'm not ignoring this - I just haven't a  glimmer...
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« Reply #1755 on: April 16, 2011, 08:33:24 AM »
hmmmmm!

Anthony Trollope might fit the author description, but I can't think of a book that fits. Did you all know that Barchester Towers is only the first of what is called the Chronicles of Barsetshire series?  Also, I notice that he wrote a book called Rachel Ray. No, it isn't about cooking.

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« Reply #1756 on: April 16, 2011, 09:04:44 AM »
Anthony Burgess just popped into my weary head.  "Clockwork Orange"

Weary because my best friend, Maryan, "shouted" me to see "Riverdance".  It was quite superb.  My friend Maryan is as Irish as Paddy's pigs, and I delighted in watching her face and the clapping of her hands.  Even though I have no trace of Irish blood, it was most wondrous to experience the audience's reaction and find myself joining in.  One of life's true joys.
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« Reply #1757 on: April 16, 2011, 01:16:57 PM »
Did you all know that Barchester Towers is only the first of what is called the Chronicles of Barsetshire series?  
Actually, Barchester Towers is the second, the first being The Warden.  They're the only two I've read.  Trollope seemed to have trouble thinking up female romantic leads, as he uses the same woman in both, she having been widowed between books.  I hope he varied things in future books, so the poor woman didn't have to keep on losing husbands.

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« Reply #1758 on: April 16, 2011, 02:25:21 PM »
There was another one that was set in Barsetshire, but it wasn't part of the series, The Two Heroines of Plumpington.

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« Reply #1759 on: April 16, 2011, 02:55:14 PM »
Ahhh, Riverdance. I've never seen it live, but watch everychance I get on PBS. Interesting that I understand that the rules about not moving the arms or upper body were so that the dance wouldn't get too "sexy", but some of the Riverdance couples manage to be quite sexy anyway. Where there's a will, there's a way.

I had an Irish friend in Maryland who would take me to every local demonstration of Irish dancing, mostly by children, some as young as six, but already quite proficient. They were delightful.