Book Club Jester Gifts

'I found it to be the kind of book that once you put it down you never want to pick it up again.'

'My reading comprehension is so-so, but I do make up for it with my highlighting skills.'

The Dorrie Decimal System

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

'I ace 'wheeling' but I flunked 'dealing'' - Boy on leaving Business Administration.

It's Dostoevsky. It's Melville. It's Flaubert. But it doesn't dance.

"Take this declaration of war and punch it up."

Sue the Author 3PM

"Philosophy Department. Why may I direct your call?"

'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?”

Isabel Allende

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

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"

"Barb's such a fast reader."

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

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

The writers group met every Tuesday for support and fellowship.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

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

Books / Coffee table books

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

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

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

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

King and Jester

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

Book Lovers in Richmond

'Oooh. By Emily Bronte. A very controversial book...Cruelty! Passion! Death! Risky territory for a woman author in the 1800s.'

Jester

Axel, I notice you read a lot of highbrow books

Science Books. Do you have any books about Lepidoptera? Yes, and would you like to join "The Book of the Moth Club"?

'This new jester doth appeal to me.'