Don’t you just hate it when a vampire micromanages you?
Welcome back to Old Enough For Fairytales! Sit back, pop in some earbuds, and enjoy some book talk with Anna and Kyrsten. This week, we’re talking about recent reads, bookish trivia, and, of course, vampires.
Books Mentioned:
Obsidian Queen Series by Shari L. Tapscott
The Crown’s Game by Evelyn Skye
A Cross-Country Christmas by Courtney Walsh
The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
The Lies of Vampires and Slayers by K. M. Shea
Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
Trivia Questions:
1) What was the first book ever written using a typewriter?
2) Three books are rated the most read. Name two of them.
3) How many books have been published, as of 2010?
4) What is the word for loving the smell of old books?
5) The most expensive book ever purchased was sold for ___?
6) How long is the longest sentence ever printed?
7) What country reads the most?
8) Which American president read a book every day (supposedly)?
9) How many books can you make from one tree?
10) Where does the term “bookworm” come from?
11) How many people does it take to carry the heaviest book in the world?
12) What was the first book to be printed?
13) Illiteracy is a significant issue in our world. What is the ratio of illiterate adults to literate adults worldwide?
Trivia Answers:
1) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
2) The Bible, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, Harry Potter
3) 129 million
4) “Bibliosmia”
5) $30.8 million
6) 823 words (the longest sentence ever printed was in Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables)
7) Iceland
8) Theodore Roosevelt
9) 50
10) Insects living inside books and eating away at the binding
11) 6-7 people
12) The Gutenberg Bible
13) 1:5 – 1 in every 5 adults is illiterate.
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