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.

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

Sue the Author 3PM

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

"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."

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

The World's Biggest Book Club

"Barb's such a fast reader."

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

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

Isabel Allende

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.

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

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

'Read any good Apps lately?'

The writers group met every Tuesday for support and fellowship.

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.'

Book Lovers in Richmond

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

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

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

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

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

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

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

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

Science Books. Do you have any books about Lepidoptera? Yes, and would you like to join "The Book of the Moth Club"?

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