Book Club Anniversary Gifts

'Do you remember this bit in Anna Karenina?'

The 'I'm Almost Finished With War And Peace' Bookmark

The Dorrie Decimal System

'Look! The new long awaited, highly anticipated but ultimately disappointing novel by that guy you like.'

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

'He took from the rich and gave to the poor? It sounds like wealth redistribution.'

“Who’s a good boy that doesn’t feel obliged to prove it by holding too many interesting literary and social opinions?”

Shakespeare. Hamlet. Romeo and Juliet. "To be or not to be, that is the question". "We are such stuff …As dreams are made of …" "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would small as sweet." That Shakespeare guy had some neat sound bites.

Isabel Allende

BOOKSHOP, 'We're pushing our do-it-yourself kit today, sir -- a ream of paper and a dozen pencils.'

"Barb's such a fast reader."

Do-It-Yourself. Do-it-yourself-With-Good-Friends-and-Pizza-and-A-Few-Beers.

The World's Biggest Book Club

"I'm waiting for my imagination to run riot."

'Read any good Apps lately?'

The writers group met every Tuesday for support and fellowship.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Well, I finished my summer reading list – now what?

"Is this fiction, non-fiction or historical fiction?"

'Turns out it was J K Rowling, in the drawing room, with a laptop.'

O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art though, Romeo? Seriously, wherefore art thou? Shakespeare in the Dark.

Sumo Love.

Book Lovers in Richmond

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

'It's very fast-paced. The book was over before I could finish reading it.'

I'll be honest, Jerry - When you invited me to join your book club, this is not what I expected.

"You'll learn a lot at our book club...like how to read between the wines."

The Colonel reading Clive's letters to the ladies of the regiment.

"Wallace couldn't come, but I brought some of his fussy prose."

Frontispiece to 'The Pickwick Papers'

"Start with a Spanish doubloon. Those are always good."

"Hey - I'd write a book, too, if I could find the time."

Women who Read Too Much

"I couldn't finish that book either."

'The most moving part, for me, is when they explain how to fuse the main pipe to the power hose.'