I saw Christmas decorations last weekend and I wasn’t happy about it.  I love Thanksgiving, the quieter holiday that’s all about being thankful for what I have instead of the later, flashier holiday that’s all about what I want.  So, at the library yesterday and picked up books from the New section that had something on the cover that I was thankful for.  So, they’re all relatively new, taken from both fiction and nonfiction.  Give me the title and author if you can.  You’ll also get an extra point if you can tell me what it is on the cover that I’m thankful for 🙂

Leave your guesses in a comment.  Good luck!  I noticed after I downloaded the picture that I have two 9’s and no 10.  Go figure!

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1. Why Grow Up by Susan Neiman – balloons/parties   2.The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George – mail!   3.The Darling Dahlias & the Eleven O’clock Lady by Susan Wittig Albert – my home  4.A Window Opens by Elisabeth Egan – reading/books   5.Never Kill A Friend by Martin Hill – stained glass/church  6.Come Hell or Highball by Maia Chance – a pretty adult beverage  7.An Improbable Friendship by Anthony David – trees  8.Re Jane by Patricia Park – trains, because they make my son happy  9.Who Do You Love by Jennifer Weiner – the loves of my life 9.Death Wears a Mask by Ashley Weaver – a chance to get dressed up and go out.

Answers to last week’s scary movie quiz here.

Okay, I’ve been negligent in posting quizzes these past few weeks and I have no excuse except that I have been very busy (and sick so that doesn’t help).  We’ll see if I can get another week or two in and then crown a winner for this round.

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There are lots of Johns who have written bestselling books. I scrambled the title of one of their books and their last names.

1. A EIMT OT LILK – John MSIARGH  A Time To Kill by John Grisham

2. GOOKINL ROF AAALSK – John EERNG   Looking For Alaska by John Green

3. A RAYPER ORF WENO NEAYM – John RINGIV   A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving

4. STEA FO EEDN – John TECKBSEIN    East of Eden by John Steinbeck

5. LURES FO REYP – John FANDORDS   Rules of Prey by John Sandford

6. HET YOB NI TEH TRIPDES JAMASPA – John YNEBO   The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

7. NIGHTMID NI HET DENGAR FO DOGO NAD VILE – John BEERTND   Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

8. HET KOBO FO STOL INGTHS – John NNOOLLCY    The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly

9. THNOR NAD OUTSH – John KESJA   North and South by John Jakes

10. RINO SHOUE – John THAR   Iron House by John Hart

11. UFFSER ETH CILDHREN – John AULS   Suffer the Children by John Saul

12. A FEDERCONACY FO CUNDES – John KEENNDY LOOTE   A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Let’s see if you can match these Shakespeare characters with the play they appeared in.

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Choices-As You Like It, Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, Romeo & Juliet, The Tamining of the Shrew, King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth

1. Mercutio

2. Petruchio

3. Lysander

4. Miranda

5. Goneril

6. Hamlet

7. Marcus Brutus

8. Duncan

9. Desdemona

10. Rosalind

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Answer’s to last week’s headshot quiz here.

Anyone every notice the BIG author photos on the backs of the books? It seems the size of the photo correlates with the size of the author’s fanbase.  Let’s see how well you know the faces of the authors we love.

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Harlan Coben, Denis Lehane, David Baldacci, Jeffery Deaver, Michael Connelly, Linda Fairstein, Catherine Coulter, Karen Kingsbury, Sandra Brown, Lisa Gardner

To go along with Gage’s US state studies, please fill in these book titles using the name of a state.

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1. The Hotel New Hampshire

2. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

3. Washington Square

4. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

5. Gods in Alabama

6. Looking for Alaska

7. The Colorado Kid

8. The Kingdom of Ohio

9. One Morning in Maine

10. Bleeding Kansas

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Last’s week’s Irish quiz here.

How well do you know these Irish cuties?  I’m giving a list of ages and I want to see if you can match the actor to the correct age.   If you throw in the actor’s name I’ll gie you extra points.  I know it’s going to be tempting to cheat, resist!

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Ages- 31, 32, 35, 37, 38, 42, 54, 59, 61, 62, 64, 67, 74

1.64, Gabriel Byrne

2.35, Chris O’Dowd

3.38, Colin Farrell

4.61, Pierce Brosnan

5. 32, Jamie Dorman

6.59, Brendan Gleeson

7.62, Liam Neeson

8.31, Aidan Turner

9.54, Kenneth Branagh

10.37, Jonathan Rhys Meyers

11.42, James O’Mara

12.74, Michael Gambon

13.67, Sam Neill