Book Aficionado Gifts

Inbox and outbox for books

'According to this, you owe $57.32 in late fees for the book 'Getting By on a Shoestring Budget'.'

Philip Roth

A book titled 'Tales from the Crypto'.

'I find your whole story difficult to swallow,' Literary Agent.

The Tell-Tale Heart 2: Lost Phone On Vibrate

'We've updated our classics to fit in with the sort of childhood memoirs that sell nowadays.'

Mondrian art books arranged in the style of his paintings.

"Who's going to know I read this paragraph three times?"

Charles Darwin Book Signing.

The changing times of 'fame'.

"I'm sorry, Dave, but our marriage has lost its narrative flow."

"These are my leather-bound Hammacher Schlemmer catalogues."

The joy of sects.

"Oh, I've never actually read any of your books. . . I come to these hoping the author will pass away and the book will increase in value!"

'You stop buying books and I'll stop buying plants.'

'I don't want to ruin it for you, but the ending is pretty obvious.'

'Do you have this in a smaller size?'

'How about having at least one character who's alive and wearing clothes?'

Julian Barnes

Kiran Desai

Steam of Consciousness

"Give me a sec, darling, I've nearly finished this chapter."

Douglas Stuart

Joseph Conrad

Large Print Book

Hard Choices by Hillary and Fools Rush In by Monica Lewinksy.

'And this book comes in shiny coffee-table-crisp or library-ready-pre-read and musty.'

3:00 PM MEET THE AUTHOR. . .

Richard Hughes.

A binding of booksellers

The book that will not be denied!

'Ordinarily we charge twenty five cents a week for overdue books, but I'm going to have to charge you a dollar for that one.'

"Can any of you draw? I'm thinking we should move into children's books."

"I'm impressed! Junior actually asked to use our old-fashioned dictionary!"