So many great books have become movies so far this year.  Let’s see wht you can figure out from Goodreads description of the book – no cheating!

Take your best guesses, be entered to win a prize – you only need one correct answer to be eligible for a prize.  No cheating (using the web to help find answers) or copying.  All extra details can be found here.

Leave your guesses in the comment section by Tuesday afternoon.

1. Is the heart-rending story of two small-town former high school sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks. Now middle-aged, they’ve taken wildly divergent paths, but neither has lived the life they imagined . . . and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever altered their world.   The Best of Me

2. Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.   The Fault in Our Stars

3. When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He’s surrounded by strangers—boys whose memories are also gone.   Nice to meet ya, shank. Welcome to the Glade.  The Maze Runner

4. On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River.    Gone Girl

5. The death of Judd Foxman’s father marks the first time that the entire Foxman family—including Judd’s mother, brothers, and sister—have been together in years. Conspicuously absent: Judd’s wife, Jen, whose fourteen-month affair with Judd’s radio-shock-jock boss has recently become painfully public.  Simultaneously mourning the death of his father and the demise of his marriage, Judd joins the rest of the Foxmans as they reluctantly submit to their patriarch’s dying request: to spend the seven days following the funeral together.   This is Where I Leave You

6. Choices. Seventeen-year-old Mia is faced with some tough ones: Stay true to her first love—music—even if it means losing her boyfriend and leaving her family and friends behind?  Then one February morning Mia goes for a drive with her family, and in an instant, everything changes. Suddenly, all the choices are gone, except one. And it’s the only one that matters.   If I Stay

7. Jonas’s world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear or pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the Community. When Jonas turns twelve, he is singled out to receive special training.  The Giver

8. In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue–Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is–she can’t have both.   Divergent

9. New York City is subsumed in arctic winds, dark nights, and white lights, its life unfolds, for it is an extraordinary hive of the imagination, the greatest house ever built, and nothing exists that can check its vitality. One night in winter, Peter Lake, orphan and master-mechanic, attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side.  Though he thinks the house is empty, the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the love between Peter Lake, a middle-aged Irish burglar, and Beverly Penn, a young girl, who is dying.   Winter’s Tale

10. St. Vladimir’s Academy isn’t just any boarding school—it’s a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They’ve been on the run, but now they’re being dragged back to St. Vladimir’s—the very place where they’re most in danger. . . .   Vampire Academy

 

 I hope you all had a great Memorial Day weekend.  We stayed busy here, but I managed a few minutes to come up with a fun quiz for you all.  Just fill in the blanks of these titles with a shape.  Each shape is only used once.  You’ll get more points if you can tell me the author too.  Good luck!

I hope that you’ll try your hand at my (mostly) bookish quizzes every week, but it’s okay if you just want to play when the quiz interests you.  If you play you are eligible for a prize at the end of the round (sometime in June).  For all of the details, click here.  Submit your answers in the comment section – I will stop by and hide them throughout the week but try not to copy off anyone else    You have til Sunday to guess.

No need to know all the answers, one guess and you’ll be eligible for a prize. 

No Googling:)

1. Washington Square by Henry James

2. Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy

3. The Fourth Side of the Triangle by Ellery Queen

4. Star Island by Carl Hiassen

5. Crescent Dawn by Clive Cussler

6. Murder at the Pentagon by Margaret Truman

7. Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin

8. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson

9. I, Alex Cross by James Patterson

10. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

Answers to Children’s Book Week Quiz here.   Leaderboard here.

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For some authors, two names are just not enough.  Good luck giving me the first and last names of these authors from the past and present.

I hope that you’ll try your hand at my (mostly) bookish quizzes every week, but it’s okay if you just want to play when the quiz interests you.  If you play you are eligible for a prize at the end of the round (sometime in June).  For all of the details, click here.  Submit your answers in the comment section – I will stop by and hide them throughout the week but try not to copy off anyone else    You have til Sunday to guess.

No need to know all the answers, one guess and you’ll be eligible for a prize.  No Googling:)

The past

1. Harriet Beecher Stowe

2. Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. Laura Ingalls Wilder

4. Zora Neale Hurston

5. Edgar Allan Poe

6. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

7. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

8. Louisa May Alcott

The present

9. Sarah Addison Allen

10. Mary/Carol Higgins Clark

11. George R.R. Martin

12. Joyce Carol Oates

13. Randy Wayne White

14. Orson Scott Card

15. Carlos Ruiz Zafon

16. Alexander McCall Smith

Answer’s to last week’s H Quiz here and to my Book Problem Quiz here.  Leaderboard here.

In honor of Women’s History Month this quiz is all about the heroines we find in classic literature.  All you need to do is unscramble their names.  To help you out I’ve even included the scrambled title of the book, if different from the name,  but that’s not part of the answer.

I hope that you’ll try your hand at my (mostly) bookish quizzes every week, but it’s okay if you just want to play when the quiz interests you.  If you play you are eligible for a prize at the end of the round (sometime in June).  For all of the details, click here.  Submit your answers in the comment section – I will stop by and hide them throughout the week but try not to copy off anyone else    You have til Sunday to guess.

1. EJNA EERY Jane Eyre

2. OHSJEEPNI HCRAM (ILLETT MWENO) Josephine March (Little Women)

3. NNAA ENNAKIAR  Anna Karenina

4. HTZBLEIAE TETENBN (DEPRI NDA RDPEUCEJI)  Elizabeth Bennett (Pride and Prejudice)

5. NNEA HIRSYEL (ENNA FO ENGRE ABLGES)  Anne Shirley (Anne of Green Gables)

6. LETRCTAS H’RAOA (NOEG TIHW ETH NDIW)  Scarlett O’Hara (Gone with the Wind)

7. GRTEMARA HEAL (THRON NAD UOSTH)  Margaret Hale (North and South)

8. LMOL ALFSREDN  Moll Flanders

9. ETSERH NNEYRP (ETH TLSCARE TERLET)  Hester Prynne  (The Scarlet Letter)

10. TUOSC NFICH (OT LIKL A KCIMOGNDRBI)  Scout Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird)

Answers to last week’s Bookish Oscar Quiz here.  Leaderboard here.

This week I thought I’d see if you can figure out the order in which these books were published.  Please list them from oldest publication date to newest.

You have until noon Sunday to submit your answers as a comment.  Comment will be hidden until I post the answers.  No Googling!

This round will last til August.  The person with the most points will win a B&N gift card (total $ based on # of total participants, so please play) and a randomly selected participant will win a fun prize from me.

Have fun and Good Luck!  Last week’s What Book is That? Quiz here .  Leaderboard and rules here.

1 C. Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 1859

  A. White Fang by Jack London 1906

  B. The White Plague by Frank Herbert 1982

   C. Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 1859

2  B. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 1969

   C. High Five by Janet Eveanovch 1999

  A. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 2003

3 B. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison 1977

   A. The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer 1980

   C. Dicey’s Song by Cynthia Voigt  1983

4 A. The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende  1982

   B. A Painted House by John Grisham  2001

   C. Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman  2004

5 C. These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder  1943

   B. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing  1962

   A. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman  1995

6  C. The Hours by Michael Cunningham  1998

   B. Odd Hours by Dean Koontz  2008

   A. The Distant Hours by Kate Morton  2010

7 A. Little Men by Louisa May Alcott  1871

   C. Of Mice & Men by John Steinbeck  1937

   B. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren  1946

8 C. Einstein’s Monsters by Martin Amis  1987

   B. Monster by Walter Dean Myers  1999

   A. Monsters of Men by Pateick Ness  2010

9 A. Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding  1996

   C. Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson  2001

   B.The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie  2007

10 B. The Sands of Time by Sidney Sheldon  1988

    A. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III  1999

    C. Sand in My Eyes by Christine Lemmon  2010