Book Club Devotees Pillows

"Randy, if you were stranded on an island, what's the one book you'd want to have along with you?" "Easy: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. It's got the perfect heft to knock coconuts out of trees." "Well, I'd like to have How to Get Off an Island, by Archie Macguyver." "That title's actually a metaphor for overcoming shyness." "We really should have our own book review show."

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.

Sue the Author 3PM

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

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

“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.'

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

"Barb's such a fast reader."

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

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

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

Isabel Allende

'Read any good Apps lately?'

The writers group met every Tuesday for support and fellowship.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

A vicar is reading 'The Great Begatsby' written by Abraham.

BOOKS ON VIDEO/BOOKS ON TAPE/READ YOUR OWN.

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

"Do you think Trump has read 'Contemporary Relativism and the Death of Meaning'?"

"No. I don't want to see an all-male production of 'Little Women.' "

Book Lovers in Richmond

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

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

'Oooh. By Emily Bronte. A very controversial book...Cruelty! Passion! Death! Risky territory for a woman author in the 1800s.'

Frontispiece to 'The Pickwick Papers'

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