Book Club Facilitator Gifts

'Go ahead. There's a men's lounge downstairs next to the men's restroom.'

"Shall we start with an icebreaker?"

The Dorrie Decimal System

Inclusive speech

'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.

'Complete sentences?? Jeez, how verbose can you get?'

'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?”

The Importance of Planning Thoroughly in Advance

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.

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

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

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

"Barb's such a fast reader."

'All those in doubt, raise your eyebrows.'

The World's Biggest Book Club

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

'Read any good Apps lately?'

The writers group met every Tuesday for support and fellowship.

"This is the communications workshop, right? Let’s get started, I’m prepared!"

"This isn't the big city anymore, Jim. I'm the facilitator now."

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

'I thought people were quite receptive to the change seminar.'

The first week of the brainstorming session went slowly.

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

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

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

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

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