Book Buffs Gifts

Danae's Prescient Auto-Biography: '...My prescient autobiography is a publisher's dream...no need for fact-checking!'

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

Failed Alliance.

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

"1984 by George Orwell. Project 2025. Presidential transition project."

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

'The history of Glue. It's impossible to put down.'

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

"Do you see yourself becoming a movie in five years?"

First Novels.

Victor Hugo

"Meet the author"

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

"There's something weird about Emily. She actually likes school!"

Reading my Critics

"Pssst! Do you have anything on American history?"

"I think I may have stumbled on something, Walpole."

"And do you, Deborah Tannen, think they know what they're talking about?"

Second hand furniture.

"Have you read any of Shakespeare's plays?"

Gen-Next Library

Two books: 'The Joy of Cooking' next to 'The Joy of Dieting'.

The First Draft. . . Moby Duck.

"I'm in a catch-23 situation."

Audio Books

Don Quixote

Wishing Well, Wishing Good.

"I try to write a little bit every day."

'Stuck on a desert island, in the middle of the ocean, with only a palm tree for company, it's a bloody joke.'

Great works I plan to complete during the lockdown.

Screen Time vs Book Time

'It's a novel based on a movie adapted from a magazine article that was inspired by a video game.'

'As a famous writer, could you do something to help jumpstart my career?'

Charles Darwin Book Signing.

Congratulations! All that cramming paid off.