Posted in Uncategorized on December 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As promised, here are the answers to last week’s quiz. How well did you do?
Bears sins into wilderness: The Scapegoat (Daphne du Maurier, 1957)
Judas’s role: The Moneyman (Thomas B. Costain, 1947)
Plea in the Lord’s Prayer: Forgive Us Our Trespasses (Lloyd C. Douglas, 1943)
Eden before the fall: The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton, 1921)
Where Israelites’ [...]
Posted in 1960 Bestselling Novels, Uncategorized on December 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’re on the brink of another year and another decade, which means it’s time for a new list of bestsellers.
I’ll begin 2010 with reviews of novels on the bestseller list 50 years before. I find it disconcerting, if not actually frightening, to realize novels that were new in 1960 when I was a teenager are [...]
Posted in Quizzes & games, Uncategorized on December 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The answer to each of these clues is the title of a twentieth century best-selling novel published 40 or more years ago. In today’s quiz, the 10 clues are all related to familiar Bible stories. The novels’ whose titles provide an answer are not necessarily religious novels or related to biblical themes.
Jacob’s 12 boys
King David [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 30, 2009 | Comments Off
A lot of novels have gone to the remainder bin since 1919. Few of the bestsellers of that year are still on library shelves. I have located a trove of vintage fiction at Milne Library at SUNY Oneonta, but that collection does not circulate.
However, I was lucky in finding circulating copies of the three top [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 15, 2009 | Comments Off
It’s time to revisit the novels that were bestsellers in 1929, the year when the stock market crashed plunging America into the Great Depression.
I haven’t been able to locate all the novels on the list, but those I’ve found have been fascinating. Here in order are the 1929 top 10, led by a classic novel [...]
