Book Club Enthusiast Gifts

"And to think that we started as a book group."

"If we buy two full price, we can buy another six we don�t really want half price."

'It's me or the book clubs Alice. Choose it or lose it.'

"Let's hear another suggestion besides 'Moby Dick.'"

'I belong to so many book clubs I no longer have time to read!'

"Next month's book choice is Violet's - and I speak for everyone when I dread to say what I think it might be!"

"I like the book club. I just think it was more fun when we were a coven."

At the neighborhood book circle: "Gosh, Walter, I'm sorry my comments seem so full of bile to you, but HELLO? I'm a gall bladder! Or haven't you noticed?"

"We're disbanding the book club and canceling the fundraiser so we can grieve for six months. It's what Irene would have wanted."

Literary Lunch

'You bet I'm a bookworm: I'm a member of seven book clubs!'

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

Yes, such a meeting of Mistress' friends can be very feisty and involve lots of arguing: it's called a "book club"...

'I've read all of Shakespeare unless he's written anything recently!'

"Nicely illustrated but the plot's a bit thin."

Joseph Furphy and Miles Franklin.

"It seems unfair to talk about the book when Steve, Rhonda, and Sue aren't here - so let's talk about them!"

"I didn't have to fight over Mummy Son: We met at a book-club..."

'Ok - your opinion on Roget's Thesaurus?'

"My book club is doing some really good noir, though I forget if it's pinot or grenache."

Meet The Pill-Popper

"It's not you, Robert. It's the Philip Roth novel on your nightstand."

"What are you pretending to be absorbed in?"

"Meet The Author"

Reading my Critics

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.

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

"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?”

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

Sue the Author 3PM

Charles Darwin Book Signing.