Free For All Friday: Can You Name the Page Content of a Book?

Can you name the page content that might be found in a book? Name the term for each description, below. (Answers follow.)

1. The page at or near the front cover which gives the book's title, it's author and other information.
2. The page opposite the title page that is either blank or decorated with an illustration.
   
3. This page shows copyright information, credits, edition and printing details, and cataloguing  information.
   
4. This page or section lists the parts of a book in order. 
   
5. This page or section lists any tables, illustrations, charts, and graphs within a book and helps the reader locate them in the text.
   
6. This page or section lists any tables within a book and helps the reader locate them in the text.
7. A page in which the author dedicates the book to a specific person or persons.
   
8. A page in which the author pays homage to all those who helped in the writing and production of a book.
   
9. A composition by someone other than the book's author, which is often included in the front matter of a book.
10. A composition by the book's author, which is often included in the front matter of a book.
11. This section of a book's front matter is a composition that gives the purposes and goals of the book.
12.  A supplemental section added to the back matter of a book to correct errors, explain inconsistencies, or provide updates.
13. A list of terms and their definitions usually included in the back matter of a book.
14. A list of words or phrases and page numbers, paragraph numbers or section numbers that help the reader locate useful information in a book.
15. A page, usually in a book's back matter, in which the author makes brief observations pertaining to the book and adds information of interest to the reader.
    
16. A list of books and other works usually located in a book's back matter but which can occupy entire volumes of its own.
17. A brief description, usually in a book's back matter, giving notes on details of the production and publication of a book.

1. Title Page
2. Frontispiece
3. Copyright Page
4. Table of Contents
   
5. List of Figures
6. List of Tables
7. Dedication
8. Acknowledgments
9. Foreward
10. Preface
11. Introduction
12. Appendix or Addendum
    
13. Glossary
14. Index
15. Notes
16. Bibliography
17. Colophon

Free For All Friday: Can You Name the Page Content Categories for a Book?

Can you name the three page content categories for a book? (Answers below)

Every book has sections known as front matter, body, and back matter.

Free For All Friday: Can You Name the Parts of a Book?

Can you name the physical parts of a book? See if you can name the term for each description below. Note: In the interest of brevity I do not name specific page content. (Answers follow.)

1. The front and back covers
2. The small groove where the books boards attach to the book that bends when a book opens
3. Raised areas on a book's spine (These once resulted from cords that anchored the book covers but are now mostly decorative.)
4. The bottom of the book, especially at the spine
5. One or two pieces of paper that attach the cover to the book block
6. This bends when the book is opened.
7. The trimmed edge opposite the spine (hint: it sometimes can be painted or gilded)
8. A decorative colored cloth band that protects the spine
9. The inside pages that make up a book
10. Protective paper or plastic that wraps around the covers of hard bound books for protection and often display artwork, title and author of the book
11. The cover surrounding a paperback book
12. The blank page(s) following the front free end paper
13. The top of the book, especially at the spine
14. A part of the book binding consisting of half of the end paper glued to the inside cover of the book
15. The binding that joins a book's front and rear covers where the pages hinge

Answers:

1. Book Cover or Book Board
2. Joint
3. Raised Band  
4. Tail
5. Endsheet or Endpaper
   
6. Hinge
7. Fore edge
8. Headband 
9. Text block or book block.  
10. Dust Jacket or Dust Wrapper 
11. Wrapper
12.  Flyleaf
13. Head
14. Paste down
15. Spine

Free For All Friday: Timeless Best Sellers

Some books never go out of style. Can you name the top ten all-time best sellers? (Answers below* - listed in order of sales.)

 1. Bible

 2. Quotations from Chairman Mao (the Little Red Book) by Mao Zedong

 3. The Qur'an (Koran)

 4. Xinhua Zidian (Xinhua Dictionary)

 5. Chairman Mao's Poems by Mao Zedung

 6. Selected Articles of Mao Zedong

 7. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

 8. Scouting for Boys (A Handbook of Instruction in Good Citizenship) by Robert Baden-Powell

 9. The Lord of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

10. Book of Mormon

*source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books

Free For All Friday: Male Authors with Female Psuedonyms

While it's true women authors sometimes take male or gender-neutral pen names, there are also instances of male authors doing the same in reverse, especially when writing in female-dominated genres such as romance. Can you guess the male authors from their pen names, below? Answers follow.

            Pen Name

1. Dorothea Nile
2. Madeline Brent
3. Lydia Colby
4. Madeleine Ker
5. Leigh Anne Williams
   

      Author 

1. Michael Avallone
2. Peter O'Donnell
3. W.E.D. "Dan" Ross
4. Marius Gabriel Cippola
5. Billy Mernit

Free for All Friday - Presidential Authors

Can you guess the presidents who authored the following books? Answers follow.

           Book Title

1. Hero Tales From American History
   
2. An American Life
3. My Life
4. Personal Memoirs
5. Why Not the Best?
6. Dreams From My Father 
7. Profiles in Courage 

  
           Answers

1. Theodore Roosevelt
2. Ronald Reagon
3. William Clinton
4. Ulysses Grant
   
5. Jimmy Carter
6. Barrack Obama
7. John F. Kennedy is credited with writing Profiles in Courage, although he may not actually have done so.

Free for All Friday: Where Do These Characters Belong?

Name the book or series for each of the following characters. Answers follow.

  

Character

1. Natty Bumpo
2. Cap Garland
   
3. Theoden
   
4. Emma Wagner 
5. Mary Darling
   

Series or Book

1. Leather Stocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper Learn More
    
2. Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder Learn More
    
3. The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkein Learn More
    
4. A Clearing in the Wild by Jane Kirkpatrick Learn More
    
5. Peter and Wendy by J M Barre Learn More

Free for All Friday: Female Writers with Male Pseudonyms

Once upon a time in the world of literature, women authors did not command the same respect as their male counterparts. Some got around this handicap by taking male pen names. Writers today still disguise their gender to fit into a certain niche market. See if you can guess the identities of the female authors who wrote under the names below. Answers follow.

                  Pen Name

1. Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell
2. James Tiptee, Jr.
3. J. D. Robb
4. George Eliot
5. Andy Stack
6. A. M. Barnard
7. Andre Norton
8. Andy Stack
9. George Sand 
10. John Sedge
    

                                   

                  Identity

1. Emily, Anne and Charlotte Bronte
2. Alice Bradley Sheldon
3. Nora Roberts
4. Mary Ann Evans
5. Louisa May Alcott
   
6. Ann Rule
   
7. Alice Mary Norton
8. Ann Rule
9. Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin
10. Pearl S Buck
    

Free for All Friday: Name the Author!

Welcome, and Happy Friday! We've made it through another week. Now for a moment of fun (and perhaps inspiration for a weekend of reading).

Each of the following 5 books is a lesser-known work by a famous author. See if you can guess the author for each book. Answers follow.

1. The Beautiful and Damned
2.  Hard Times
3. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
4. Shirley
5. The Pastures of Heaven
   

1. A masterful character study, The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald first saw publication in 1922. It tells the story of Anthony Patch, the heir to a fortune, and explores the degeneration of the American upper class, a theme common to Fitzgerald's work.
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2. Charles Dickens wrote Hard Times (1854) as an allegorical indictment of the effects of industrialization on society. A brother and sister, Tom and Louisa Gradgrind, raised by a cold, pragmatic father, lead unimaginative, self-focused and cultureless lives. The message found in Hard Times remains relevant today.
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3. Mark Twain refused to attach his name to Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, which ran in installments in Harper's Magazine (April 1895 - April 1896). Twain felt his novel would not be taken seriously if published under his name. He considered it his greatest work.
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4. Charlotte Bronte, author of Jane Eyre,  fulfilled her vow to write "something real and unromantic as Monday morning" by penning Shirley (1849). Against the background of the industrialization of Britain (1811-12), Bronte unfolds the story of two women, one single and trapped in a narrowed life, one so wealthy she can defy convention.
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5. A Spanish Corporal comes upon a beautiful valley in California while chasing Indians in John Steinbeck's The Pastures of Heaven (1932), which tells the story of those who settle this valley.
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