How well do you know Brit Garden Lit?
January 4th, 2008 by Kathy Purdy · 15 Comments
“Test your knowledge of books set in, or inspired by, gardens. All the books are listed on the EnCompass database, so you could do a bit of clever searching to find the answers!” I only knew one answer without searching the database. I hadn’t even heard of most of the authors or titles. How about you?
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15 responses so far ↓
1
Carol
// Jan 4, 2008 at 5:28 am
I knew two answers without looking. I guessed on the others and got four out of ten. Thanks, that was a fun quiz.
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Dee/reddirtramblings
// Jan 4, 2008 at 9:15 am
I knew two. Just two. I guessed on the others and got one more. That was fun.
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Jane
// Jan 4, 2008 at 10:54 am
I got 7 out of 10, but some of it was dumb luck because I’d never heard of some of those books/authors. I think I knew about 4.
Very enjoyable - thanks!
4 Even in the very least « Picket Fence Weblog // Jan 4, 2008 at 3:45 pm
[...] August 2007 Even in the very least January 4, 2008, 4:45 pm Filed under: Cleanup & Compost, Garden, Lawn, Links Keeping a garden is hard work. But it is a lot of fun. It reminds me of when I was a kid and my mother’s garden out back would always fill the air with such wonderful aromas. She kept flowers, herbs, spices, and vegetables all arranged beautifully in the back of our suburban home. I don’t have a yard where I live, but I do keep a small garden at camp. I plant very little there because I’m not really around but on the weekends. I still read and research about gardening though, even in the winter. I guess its my cure for being trapped in for most of the winter and it gets me ready for spring fever. I came across a fun test on a blog by Kathy Purdy. You can click here and go right to the test or you can click here and view Kathy’s blog. [...]
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Mr. McGregor's Daughter
// Jan 5, 2008 at 2:15 pm
I knew the answer to only the “Secret Garden” question. Hah! I’m not the Anglophile-gardening freak that DH keeps insisting I am. (I don’t usually feel this good about being ignorant.)
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mss @ Zanthan Gardens
// Jan 6, 2008 at 8:58 pm
I answered 3 out of 10 and got 2 of them right. I’ve never heard of most of those books. Now I’m thinking…I bet I could come up with my own obscure book quiz. It also made me realize just how little fiction I read.
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CurtissAnn
// Jan 7, 2008 at 12:42 pm
I had the answer to one– I have ‘The Secret Garden’ on my shelf. Frances Burnett. What I remember most is that Margaret O’Brien stared in the vintage film. It is wonderful.
Knew nothing else on that entire list.
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CommonWeeder
// Jan 7, 2008 at 3:26 pm
This was great fun. I only got four -but I got the titles for some new books to look at. Thanks.
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Jessica
// Jan 7, 2008 at 5:44 pm
oy, the only one I actually knew was about The Secret Garden!
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kerri
// Jan 11, 2008 at 8:45 pm
I only got 2 right..one being the Secret Garden author. Hadn’t heard of any of the others…the 2nd right answer was a good guess
This was a fun quiz.
Happy 2008 Kathy, and here’s to fun (and hard work) in the gardens!
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Don
// Jan 12, 2008 at 1:08 pm
I got six; but I’ve always been a good guesser ( as my Mom always used to say; “You can be good or lucky, and lucky’s better.)
Don
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eliz
// Jan 13, 2008 at 7:11 pm
I got five but I’d be hesitant to call a few of those literature, in the way I generally think of the term.
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jodi
// Jan 16, 2008 at 2:17 pm
I got seven out of ten…but I haven’t read them all. And to clarify, Carol Sheilds (author of Larry’s Party) is Canadian; it might be more accurate to call this Commonwealth literature.
(okay, I confess….I have two degrees in English, mostly focused on CanLit. tee hee)
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Kathy Purdy
// Jan 16, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Jodi, I stand corrected. I found the quiz on a British site, so I assumed they were all British authors. But I freely admitted I didn’t do too well myself, so I hope my ignorance can be forgiven.
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Soilman
// Jan 17, 2008 at 2:00 pm
I knew only half of them, and I AM a Brit!
Tell you what, though: if you’re only going to read one of these books, make it The Go Between. Wonderful book – and the movie’s not bad either.
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