Our Club
What are the 5 genres of books the club is reading this round?
Sci-fi, Romance, Fantasy, Memoir, Modern Classic
Who wrote the young adult vampire-romance novel “Twilight”?
Stephenie Meyer
What are the four houses at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?
Slytherin, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Gryffindor
"It's opener, out there, in the wide, open air"
(Dr.Seuss)
Oh, the Places You'll Go!
What college campus does the sequel to "Better Than the Movies" take place on?
UCLA
What are the names and positions of the 5 people on board?
Nikki- president
Mikayla- vice president
Sam- treasurer
Vivian-PR director
Sara- Director of Internal Affairs
Which author wrote all her books (including Mrs. Dalloway) while standing?
Virgina Woolf
Famed American author Louisa May Alcott lived in Boston for much of her life, but based her most famous novel on events from her childhood in Concord, MA. With its eighth film rendition released in December 2019; what is this novel?
Little Women
"It was a pleasure to burn"
Fahrenheit 451
What is the magic system in our fantasy pick based off of?
Who was our guest-speaker last quarter?
Patric Gagne
What Canadian author, poet, and environmentalist with a "forested" name reached new levels of fame in 2017 after her award-winning 1985 dystopian political novel was released as a smash-hit television series on Hulu?
Margaret Attwood
What 1995 coming-of-age comedy set in California is loosely based on Jane Austin's 1815 novel Emma?
Clueless
"I've been locked up for 264 days"
Shatter Me
How many short stories are in the sci-fi pick, "Exhalation"?
9
What was our first outing to?
The Last Bookstore
What American novelist is well-known for his sparse use of punctuation and once claimed that to use quotation marks is to "blot the page up with weird little marks?" This author is associated with the Southern Gothic, Western, and post-apocalyptic genre.
Cormac McCarthy
Which Stephen King novel takes place mostly in the fictional Overlook Hotel?
The Shinning
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow"
To Kill a Mockingbird
What is the name of the court case in the memoir "Know My Name"?
People v. Turner
What year and quarter was Bruin Book Club founded?
Spring of 2022
The writer Eric Blair went by what pen name?
George Orwell
What is Paul’s Fremen name?
Muad’Dib
“Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry 'Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!'”
The Great Gatsby
What year did the book "Life of Pi" come out?