Beach Reading Pillows

"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."

"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."

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

'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

Desert Island Books

My other novel's a booker winner

Genie Gets a Good View on the Beach.

Academics at the Beach

Sunblock - A Novel

Custer's last tan.

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

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

Desert Island Gossipping

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

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

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

Summer Reading

'Have you stopped striving yet?'

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."

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

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