Book Club Meetings Pillows

So! How do we like this months book? Heart-racing! The author's right. We need more stormy passion in our lives. More wild desire! Remember when we'd do anything for love? Oops! Gotta defrost the chicken tenders. No. I don't recall. Nor I.

Book club is reading about how Chinese parents get results. Good choice. Patty Chu can give the Tiger Mom's insider secrets. I'll remind her. Nuts. She can't come. She's supervising her kid's violin practice. Her secret revealed.

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

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."

The World's Biggest Book Club

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.'

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

"Barb's such a fast reader."

Isabel Allende

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

"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.'

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

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

Book Lovers in Richmond

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

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

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

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

Axel, I notice you read a lot of highbrow books

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

Frontispiece to 'The Pickwick Papers'

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

Women who Read Too Much