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Joe Root and me
Apr. 4th, 2020 08:27 amI just took this quiz: Which cricketer are you most like during lockdown?
Turns out I’m like Joe Root! Just call me Skip.
Turns out I’m like Joe Root! Just call me Skip.
What kind of Booklover are you?
Jul. 6th, 2016 08:39 amHere’s a little quiz received from National Book Tokens this morning. I can’t remember how I got on their mailing list. Have a go? There’s no way to embed my results so you’ll have to guess what kind of booklover I am.
How fast do you read?
Sep. 25th, 2014 09:34 amI just got this link to the Staples’ reading test from Mrs Miniver’s Daughter. I think of myself as quite a slow reader but this was my score: You read 843 words per minute.
That makes you 237% faster than the national average.
Cheating, because the first time I did the test, I forgot to note my score. The second passage I got was one I knew anyway. So I’m taking this with a pinch of salt. Have a go? Just click on the red rectangle below.
That makes you 237% faster than the national average.
Cheating, because the first time I did the test, I forgot to note my score. The second passage I got was one I knew anyway. So I’m taking this with a pinch of salt. Have a go? Just click on the red rectangle below.
Source: Staples eReader Department
A Book Quiz, Hard, Very
Dec. 15th, 2010 11:23 amA Christmas book quiz from Pursewarden via Harriet Devine. Without thinking much or looking anything up (as if) my answers so far are:
Section 1: 0
Section 2: 6
Section 3: 5
Section 4: 6
Pretty hopeless, eh? Have a go but for goodness sake don’t post any answers here as it’s supposed to be a competition.
Section 1: 0
Section 2: 6
Section 3: 5
Section 4: 6
Pretty hopeless, eh? Have a go but for goodness sake don’t post any answers here as it’s supposed to be a competition.
Oh, read what you like!
Jan. 6th, 2010 06:15 pmAnother emailed list from AbeBooks, this time of reasons for not reading a book. I'm always surprised when one of the reasons given is, 'it's long' but then, I personally love Dickens and reading him is no hardship. Have a look at the list of twenty five books people have in the TBR pile but don't actually read. I've read five of them, started and failed to finish a sixth and feel no guilt at all about not having read the rest. Never even heard of some of them and so wot?
A striking illustration of a good example: another book purge. More to go, especially as a person might be stuck indoors for a fortnight with time to tidy up.
That fiendish normblog quiz: update. The answers are here. I got 40/50 and I'm absolutely kicking myself except over a couple of authors I'd never heard of. Anyone else going to own up?
A striking illustration of a good example: another book purge. More to go, especially as a person might be stuck indoors for a fortnight with time to tidy up.
That fiendish normblog quiz: update. The answers are here. I got 40/50 and I'm absolutely kicking myself except over a couple of authors I'd never heard of. Anyone else going to own up?
Enid Blyton's Dorset
Nov. 27th, 2009 11:49 am
So I went to the Enid Blyton talk on Tuesday, with a friend. To be honest, I wouldn't have bothered if it hadn't been for Enid Blyton's strong local connections. Viv is a real Blyton enthusiast who's been collecting her books since reading Mr Galliano's Circus as a child. Now, she knows all Blyton's Dorset locations, has opened the Ginger Pop shop in Corfe Castle village and has a new venture, Eileen Soper’s Illustrated Worlds down on Poole Quay.
There was no need for Viv to say a great deal about Blyton's life as it turned out everyone there had watched the BBC4 programme (and everyone had an opinion). Things I learned: the Mary Mouse strip books were written in the 1940s to make use of publishers' offcuts which would otherwise have been wasted at a time of paper shortages; Blyton's nature knowledge was so good that she became associated with the Warne 'Wayside and Woodland' series.
For a book collector, the slides of cover designs were slightly disappointing. I'm not a Blyton collector, probably only have about a dozen of her books to Viv's hundreds but I do have a full set of original Malory Towers hardbacks with the weird but so distinctive ilustrations by Stanley Lloyd. Only one of mine has a dustwrapper, alas, but I don't think I could enjoy the books in any other format. Unfortunately, these original books are now very expensive, in spite of the large number of reprints.
I'm certainly planning a trip to the Eileen Soper gallery next summer when it's open again. For people who can't wait, the web is simply heaving with Blyton information! I was hoping to post a picture I love, which shows Enid Blyton with Richmal Crompton and Malcolm Saville at a theatre. It's printed in Barbara Stoney's biography, which I no longer have. While searching in vain I found this fun Children’s Literature Quiz. Have a go!
Short first and last lines quiz
Nov. 21st, 2009 11:50 amI posted this little quiz on a mailing list this morning to brighten a miserable day. The booklovers there got all but one in no time so I’ll now open it to all comers. Mostly from children’s or Girlsown-type books. Give the title and author.
1.‘Oh, dulling,’ said my mother, sadly. ‘One always thinks that. Every, every time.’
The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford
2.Gay Street, so J always thought, did not live up to its name.
Jane of Lantern Hill, L M Montgomery
3.Once on a dark winter’s day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted…an odd-looking little girl sat in a cab with her father…
A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett
4. ‘but, you know, he put his arms round her and he hugged her good-bye as if she were a little girl.’
5.It all began on my twelfth birthday. Mummy was pouring coffee, Daddy was buried in the Financial Times, and I was thinking how awkward it is when grown-up people will persist in giving you the sort of presents they’d have liked when they were your age…
Masquerade at the Wells, Lorna Hill
6.‘It’s not what I call homely,’ said the old Cook, standing in the doorway of the spare bedroom at B and looking at an enormous skull and crossbones…’
The Picts and the Martyrs, Arthur Ransome
7.The parcel came while the family were having breakfast.
Party Frock, Noel Streatfeild
8.When S was eight, and had at last learned to read, she hunted slowly through the colour chart pinned to the kitchen wall.
Saffy's Angel, Hilary McKay
9. ‘Nothing ever happens to me,’ said RA, putting down the book that she had just finished and sighing gustily.
10.‘Dance to us, Damson.’ The whisper came from every corner of the dormitory.
Damaris Dances, Elsie J Oxenham
ETA Girlsowners 10/10, LJ Users78/10. Any more?
1.
The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford
2.
Jane of Lantern Hill, L M Montgomery
3.
A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett
4. ‘but, you know, he put his arms round her and he hugged her good-bye as if she were a little girl.’
5.
Masquerade at the Wells, Lorna Hill
6.
The Picts and the Martyrs, Arthur Ransome
7.
Party Frock, Noel Streatfeild
8.
Saffy's Angel, Hilary McKay
9. ‘Nothing ever happens to me,’ said RA, putting down the book that she had just finished and sighing gustily.
10.
Damaris Dances, Elsie J Oxenham
ETA Girlsowners 10/10, LJ Users
Have a go at GCSE English Literature with the Beeb.
I got six out of seven, due to a disagreement over interpretation :-)
Your Hogwarts personality
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girlyswot. I can only make the link work in Firefox, Explorer won't do it. Unlike most quizzes it doesn't post the results, so I've put mine below.
You're a Slytherclaw!: By nature you are rational and a realist. Some people may call you cynical and elitist but this doesn't matter to you. You don't depend on other people's opinions to determine how you live your life. You are generally cautious and prefer to weigh the consequences before you act. In conflicts you prefer to remain neutral and aloof. You value intelligence and you are a natural diplomat, you can convince people to do what you want them to do. Your weakness is that you sometimes think more with your head than with your heart and it leads to isolation. With the intelligence of a Ravenclaw and the subtlety of a Slytherin you will be sure to achieve all your goals!
I sound a pretty cold fish!
girlyswot. I can only make the link work in Firefox, Explorer won't do it. Unlike most quizzes it doesn't post the results, so I've put mine below.
You're a Slytherclaw!: By nature you are rational and a realist. Some people may call you cynical and elitist but this doesn't matter to you. You don't depend on other people's opinions to determine how you live your life. You are generally cautious and prefer to weigh the consequences before you act. In conflicts you prefer to remain neutral and aloof. You value intelligence and you are a natural diplomat, you can convince people to do what you want them to do. Your weakness is that you sometimes think more with your head than with your heart and it leads to isolation. With the intelligence of a Ravenclaw and the subtlety of a Slytherin you will be sure to achieve all your goals!
I sound a pretty cold fish!
