Book Club Enthusiasts Gifts

'Maybe our book club just isn't for you, Carl'

Let's start a book group to read stuff that will help us cope with our lives. Like? You know: Self-help books on housekeeping, child-rearing and navigating difficult workplace situations. Suggestions? Yeah. Jane Eyre, Gone with the Wind and The Devil Wears Prada. The great books series.

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.

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

'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."

Sue the Author 3PM

“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.

'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.'

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

Isabel Allende

The World's Biggest Book Club

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

"Barb's such a fast reader."

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

The writers group met every Tuesday for support and fellowship.

'Read any good Apps lately?'

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

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

So You've Cloned Yourself

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

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

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.'

Thomas Keneally

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

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

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