Book Review Buff Gifts

'Mummy, the review of this book was more interesting.'

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

'The iceman cometh too soon!'

'Alas, poor Yorick, I knew you well. But dude, you're creeping me out, so I gotta un-friend you!'

"I think I may have stumbled on something, Walpole."

German Expressionist Breakfast

"Have you read any of Shakespeare's plays?"

The writer: something who devotes a lifetime of solitude to the same of communication.

"The spoon, he ran away with the goddam spoon."

John Bunyan

Audio Books

'Yorick? No, I don't think so, unless of course he was a Neanderthal!'

Emily Dickinson: Mime - "I think she's saying something about death."

Rape of the Lock- The Dream

'It's a novel based on a movie adapted from a magazine article that was inspired by a video game.'

Humpty Dumpty goes bungee jumping.

Myths and legends...

"Eye of pie...a**e of rat...p**s of newt."

Local rock claims to have been muse for Emily Dickinson poem "I'm that 'little stone' honest to goodness!"

"It's about the murder of an editor who refuses to publish a writer's work..."

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.

"Heads up! It's another tidal wave of overwrought critical hyperbole!"

Moby Dick

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

'Fyodor Dostoevsky sends weeks describing Alexy Karamazov's quest for a white whale, and then discards the entire chapter."

"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! … Emerson" "Good boy!"

Shakespeare Street

The loving, yet vengeful God of Cheshire!

"Hamlet. By William Shakespeare." Painting.

Fifty shades of Leveson.

T.S. Eliot lacks the courage to eat a peach.

"I think I see your deadline approaching."

'What? You used a Welshman? The recipe specifically calls for a scot!'

"Your membership entitles you to 15 books,45 posters,200 leaflets and umpteen stickers!"

Shakespeare's Brain