Avid Page-turner Gifts

"You called me Ishmael!"

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

The Bookworm

"Your hunch was right, Officer Garcia. We'll need a good editor to clean up this manuscript and bring his unfinished novel to a satisfying conclusion."

Not to be a motion picture. Will remain just a book.

"That's five votes for In The Midst of Winter....three votes for The Hollow Ground....and, again, one vote for Moby-Dick."

'I'm not being punished! I'm reading because I happen to enjoy reading!'

Addicted to reading

Kid to boy in library: 'Oh, we came at the busiest part of the day ... it's a reading frenzy.'

I'm currently working on my autobiography. Would you care to help make page 327 interesting?

Downloads.

"You have issues? Be more specific, what issues?"

"There are those who write books to be read and other who write novels for bookshelves."

"I'm ready for summer vacation! A good book takes you where you've never been!"

Technology and literature

"He's writing a novel for the first time in decades. It has less to do with the urge to create or say something new, and more to do with the fact that all his previous books are now out of print."

Reading in the family.

Ok, ok, last page.

Getting the bus back into town from the Bologna Children's Book Fair...

Bibliomaniac

"We thought about a restaurant and decided we were more of a bookstore."

"Hon, I'm taking your advice and starting a new chapter."

Small child checks out a book.

"Where do you get your derivative ideas?"

"This is my first book, but if I like it I may buy another in the near future."

Head full of Books.

'It's another office memo from that Mr. Tolstoy.'

The writer's world

Deadlines, kill fees. Who comes up with these terms?

Irvine Welsh

Free Little Library

Reading room

One book... One book... One book...

'It's a slice of life...I cut a long story short.'

TV vs Reading