A Dark and Stormy Afternoon: Round 4
Posted by: Keir Graff
(Previously on Nerd vs. Nerd.)
Category: Novels, 1950-Present
I went back to the Devon School not long ago, and found it looking oddly newer than when I was a student there fifteen years before.
“Sounds like A Separate Peace,” I said, “except that it wasn’t Devon . . . ”
“Do you want a clue?” offered Ilene.
Ian shrugged, I guessed “A Separate Peace,” by John Fowles, anyway, and was, happily, correct. Ilene revealed what her clue would have been: a book that both John Green (a former Booklister) and Daniel Kraus have had their work compared to. A point, or book, to the Winners.
Category: Novels, 1950-Present
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.
Groans from The Winners. Groans from the Losers. (At least I think Daniel was groaning.) Tied game, although my calling it a “deadlock” was mockingbirded–er, mocked.
Daniel compared it to another game, Bookchase: “Like Bookchase, you don’t even have to have read the books.”
Raw hubris or statement of fact? Stay tuned . . . .
Score: The Winners 3, The Losers 3
Answers
A) A Separate Peace, by John Knowles (1959)
B) To Kill a Mockingbird, by C.S. Leharper [SIC] Lee (1960)
March 23rd, 2009 at 3:44 pm
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