Book Club Fan Gifts

"The endless parade of murder and pillaging really spoke to me."

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.

Pets are reading the book 'Animal Farm'.

"Well, we needed the rain."

Dating an English Major

"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?”

"Gone with the wind with cats" "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." "Me neither, who cares—let's take a nap."

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

Sue the Author 3PM

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

'Tarzan interviewing for a position as a corporate lawyer.' An interviewer asks, 'When we go against the gorillas, how can we be sure that you won't forget which side you're representing?'

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

'Et tu Yakamoto?'

'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.'

"I'm eating baklava through my balaclava!"

Isabel Allende

The World's Biggest Book Club

"Barb's such a fast reader."

'You want a quick read? How about this one: 'Memoirs of an Amnesic'?'

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

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.

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

The writers group met every Tuesday for support and fellowship.

'Read any good Apps lately?'

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

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

Limerick On A Grecian Urn

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

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

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