Book Club Gathering Gifts

Crop Circle: Meet the Author

The Dorrie Decimal System

'Look! The new long awaited, highly anticipated but ultimately disappointing novel by that guy you like.'

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

'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."

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

Isabel Allende

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

"Barb's such a fast reader."

"Tracey, this is Gene. He also read the Nancy Reagan book in unbound galleys."

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.'

The World's Biggest Book Club

"Like that?"

'Read any good Apps lately?'

The writers group met every Tuesday for support and fellowship.

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

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

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

Book Lovers in Richmond

I'll be honest, Jerry - When you invited me to join your book club, this is not what I expected.

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art though, Romeo? Seriously, wherefore art thou? Shakespeare in the Dark.

"You'll learn a lot at our book club...like how to read between the wines."

Axel, I notice you read a lot of highbrow books

'Mystery of Flight' book flying away from boy reading it.

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

"Wallace couldn't come, but I brought some of his fussy prose."

"Hey - I'd write a book, too, if I could find the time."

Frontispiece to 'The Pickwick Papers'

Women who Read Too Much

"I couldn't finish that book either."