Question

This book emphasizes how “life changes fast” with the recurring sentence, “You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this 2005 book largely set at Beth Israel Medical Center whose third chapter ends with the author wondering, “How could he come back if they took his organs, how could he come back if he had no shoes?”
ANSWER: The Year of Magical Thinking
[10m] This author’s grief after her husband’s death while their daughter was hospitalized is discussed in the memoir The Year of Magical Thinking. This author began one essay with the sentence “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
ANSWER: Joan Didion (The essay is “The White Album.”)
[10e] Didion repeatedly quotes the line “I tell you that I shall not live two days,” which is said by this man in the Vulgate Mort Artu. In a Middle English poem, this knight gets into a beheading contest with the Green Knight.
ANSWER: Sir Gawain
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BinghamtonCornell C0101020
Cornell ARIT B001010
Cornell BRIT A0101020
GWU A (UG)Maryland B (UG)001010
UNC D (DII)GWU B (Grad)0000
UNC C (UG)Liberty A (Grad)001010
Liberty B (DII)Virginia B (UG)001010
Maryland A (Grad)Virginia A (UG)0101020
JMU B (UG)Roanoke College A (DII)0000
UNC B (UG)UNC A (Grad)0101020
Virginia C (UG)Duke A (UG)0101020
William & Mary A (UG)Maryland C (DII)0000
JMU A (UG)Liberty C (DII)001010
Arizona StateMinnesota C0101020
Minnesota BIowa State0101020
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Texas AIowa A0101020
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SorbonneUW A0101020
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Texas A&M BUBC A001010
KenyonMichigan B001010
Ohio State BCedarville001010
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NYU AColumbia C0101020
PennJohns Hopkins10101030
John JayRowan0101020
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HardingGeorgia Tech B001010
KentuckyTennessee0101020
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