Book Warrior Gifts

Banned!

Why are you so hostile toward books? Um, where to start: The waste of paper, the lack of multimedia, the one-way nature of the medium. One-way? Authors stuff ideas down your throat. You can't interact with their ideas. You can't crowdsource the direction, or refine the plot or do anything active. You can't shoot anyone. Shoot? I might play a shooting app called Angry Books if the books you were destroying were cute.

Conan the Librarian.

"1984 by George Orwell. Project 2025. Presidential transition project."

"Yes Sir, I'm still working on the 'ins and outs' of their proposal."

"Miracles happen, gentlemen, but they don't come cheap."

'3 Second Loading Zone.'

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

'The history of Glue. It's impossible to put down.'

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

Things-to-do-today: Daily workboxes piled up on desk.

"You've proven your worth a hundred times over. Let's try for a thousand."

"Do you see yourself becoming a movie in five years?"

"There's something weird about Emily. She actually likes school!"

First Novels.

"Meet the author"

"I had all the right answers, but I had them in the wrong order."

"Pssst! Do you have anything on American history?"

'Salaries Manager. No.'

"And do you, Deborah Tannen, think they know what they're talking about?"

Second hand furniture.

Gen-Next Library

"Be careful what you wish for, Bob, because you just might get it. And if it happens to be what I was wishing for, things could get pretty ugly around here."

Two books: 'The Joy of Cooking' next to 'The Joy of Dieting'.

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

"The president demands that staff take responsibility for failures, and the multi-trillion deficit is down to YOU!"

Some days at work can be more challenging than others.

The First Draft. . . Moby Duck.

"I'm in a catch-23 situation."

Don Quixote

Wishing Well, Wishing Good.

Screen Time vs Book Time

Great works I plan to complete during the lockdown.

Soldier armed with a pen.

'As a famous writer, could you do something to help jumpstart my career?'