Book Club Devotee Gifts

"When I asked you to join my book club, I had no idea it was going to be for good."

'Has this kid's book been Oprah-approved?'

At Mary Higgins Clark's book club.

"Would you mind making room? My reading group is here."

A man sits behind a table in a book store with a sign that reads "Take the author to lunch 1 P.M."

“Well, I just wanted to say thanks for getting me into this book club.”

Under the microscope

"It isn't charisma, and he didn't write a best seller. It's a winning lottery ticket."

Read any great books of the western world lately?

'We loved this book. Twenty nine experts tell you how to think independently.'

"Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, is a nerd!"

"You're going to hate yourself."

The Dorrie Decimal System

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

It's Dostoevsky. It's Melville. It's Flaubert. But it doesn't dance.

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

"It's about sex and revenge, except for a short chapter on the Continental Congress."

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

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

Sue the Author 3PM

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.

"Barb's such a fast reader."

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

'I'll blurb you if you'll blurb me.'

Isabel Allende

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

The World's Biggest Book Club

'No room at the inn, baby born in a manger: It's gonna be a great story to tell at parties...'

"How to talk to people" "Make them rue the day"

The writers group met every Tuesday for support and fellowship.

'Read any good Apps lately?'

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

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

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