Hemingway or a children's book? [link]
You know, I just... I woke up, and I looked in the mirror, and I thought, hey, what's with all the sin? I need to change. I'm... I'm dirty. I'm, I'm bad with the... sex and the envy and that, that loud music us kids listen to nowadays.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Tom Scola - Sep 19, 2014 2:08:21 pm PDT #22679 of 28461
hwæt
Steph L. - Sep 19, 2014 2:32:15 pm PDT #22680 of 28461
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Man, I failed that one hard. 8/15. (And, to be totally honest, the ones I got right were ones I actually recognized from children's books.)
-t - Sep 19, 2014 2:42:37 pm PDT #22681 of 28461
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Also 8/15, which the test assures me is a swell score. I got one right because I thought "That sounds like Virginia Woolf, it can't be Hemingway". It was not Virginia Woolf, but it was also not Hemingway, so go me.
Tom Scola - Sep 19, 2014 2:45:37 pm PDT #22682 of 28461
hwæt
I got a worse score the second time I took the quiz.
Dana - Sep 19, 2014 4:02:26 pm PDT #22683 of 28461
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
12 out of 15! I have no idea what I just succeeded at, but hey.
-t - Sep 19, 2014 4:24:00 pm PDT #22684 of 28461
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Second try 13/15. All the same questions. The ones I got wrong I got wrong the first time, and I knew I got wrong, but I couldn't remember how I had guessed before.
bennett - Sep 19, 2014 4:41:54 pm PDT #22685 of 28461
I figured that anything with a conjunction or any kind of clause was probably not Hemingway. It worked pretty well.
sj - Sep 19, 2014 4:59:07 pm PDT #22686 of 28461
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
12 out of 15. If the sentence had any personality at all, I picked children's book. t /not a Hemingway fan
Tom Scola - Sep 20, 2014 8:18:28 am PDT #22687 of 28461
hwæt
Brooklyn Book Festival Bingo: [link]
Burrell - Sep 21, 2014 8:51:19 pm PDT #22688 of 28461
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
14 out of 15. I think my favorite part was the little Papa Bear graphic.