Extracurricular Reading returns!
Hi All,
Just finished a good book today: Ken Jennings's (remember him from Jeopardy!) "Brainiac - Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs"
I actually bought this book for my dad for his 80th birthday last september (not with the intention of later borrowing it from him, I promise!) and he talked me into borrowing it recently. I breezed through it, since it's such a 'familiar' topic to me. Hearing him describe his Jeopardy! audition brought back memories of my own (it sounds like we even took the same 50-question test on day 2 of the tryouts) summer of 03(?) audition.
He also spends a lot of time in the book talking about other trivia 'enclaves' in the country, not the least of which was the phenomenon of 'pub trivia' and 'NTN' that most of the book club is familiar with from the infamous "BW3's Committee Meetings". All in all an entertaining book. Makes me want to head downtown to BW3s right now for a game...
P.S. I'm about halfway through "The Innocent Man"; quite a page turner. Much easier to get through than some of our other books. Hope everyone else is enjoying it.
-Jay
posted by JayC @ 4:19 PM
1 Comments:
Jay, Brainiac sounds fascinating! I watch Jeopardy with my kids almost every night. They always tell me that I should try out. I'm not that good, they're just easily impressed.
In a previous post you mentioned going to see the Harry Potter movie this summer as a group. It comes out on July 13 (a Friday). We could make a plan to see it on Saturday, July 14 at the Circle Center Mall? Do a matinee? As long as nobody minded if my kids came along. When it comes to Harry Potter, they pretty much behave themselves. We would love to come to Indy to see it. Cincinnati movie theaters suck!
Anyway, we can talk about it at our next meeting.
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