Beach Reading Gifts

"I love texting our kids and grandchildren since I've always been a lousy speller."

"Once upon a midnight dreary / while I pondered weak and weary."

"No chips, but I did snag the new Hiaasen."

'He's going to be an estate agent, just like his Dad.'

"I got tired of 'Moby-Dick' taunting me from my bookshelf, so I put it on my Kindle and haven't thought of it since."

'Jen, you knew when you married me, I was a 'corporate report' reading person - Not a 'summer fiction' reading person.'

Ladies reading a crochet pattern for amusement

"You've been in long enough! Two more dives then out!"

"I'm sorry, Ma'am, but you'll have to put your dust jacket back on."

Husband burrows under sand to get a closer look at woman sunbathing topless at the beach.

Holiday Reading and Back to Work Reading

Frank was engrossed in his book --- He lost track of time and got a sunburn! Now he's well-read and well-red!

Desert Island Books

My other novel's a booker winner

It's odd reading about Gutenberg, the father of the printing press in an e-book.

Genie Gets a Good View on the Beach.

Academics at the Beach

Sunblock - A Novel

Try out this summer's hot novels in a beach setting

Shakespeare at the beach ...

Academics at the Beach: "Camus might agree with you. De Beauvoir? Maybe. But Sartre? Never."

Custer's last tan.

"You usually don't see the classics wash up on the beach these days."

Desert Island Gossipping

'Have you stopped striving yet?'

Summer Reading

"If that book is gonna deposit hundreds of grains of sand in our bed later tonight, it better be damn juicy."

'Sorry, ocean sounds can't be heard due to a computer glitch.'

"It was a dark and stormy night...."

Crab reads 'The Little Book of Clams.'

Summer Books, Skin Cancer and How to Cure It...

"Summer Reading"

"I'm reading a crummy mystery about robots taking over the internet...a real bot boiler."

Spring Break. You're putting sunscreen on a novel? I think book burning is a dangerous thing.

'Hold you horses! I'm just getting to the good part!'