Bookish Buddies Mugs

Meet The Author's Wife. The author is too surly to talk.

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

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

Sue the Author 3PM

"I did the math. If we want to read all of Proust in this lifetime, we have to start tomorrow morning."

'HA Ha! One good idea doesn't make a genius!'

'He took from the rich and gave to the poor? It sounds like wealth redistribution.'

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

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

"You have issues? Be more specific, what issues?"

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

"Dad, I checked a book out at the library...can you read it with me?"

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

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

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

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

"You'll never believe who's here."

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

Axel, I notice you read a lot of highbrow books

"I'm sick of writing book reports on spec."

The discovery of a 51st shade of grey was met with mixed reviews.

'Okey, suit yourself but I saw the library book move.'

I love how this writer revels in romantic passion. And defends challenging boyfriends. She embraces passion even if hearts are broken. She got my heart racing! How was your book? Boring. You wouldn't like it.

"Oh, my, I can tell—everybody in there has read Barbara Tuchman."

Henry James

'I can't believe she married the prince after only one date.'

"Hello, police? I appear to have killed my husband with chapters 24 of 50 Shades of Grey..."

Meet The Ghostwriter

Scene from an early draft of Moby Dick

'What I meant by 'quark' in 'Finnegans Wake' was a hypothetical particle with a fractional electric charge.

James Joyce

"My lifestyle is empty and meaningless."

J.B. Priestley.

'When I said we should read together I meant separate books.'

'Meet the Author'/'Meet the Plagiarist' - An Author and a Plagiarist selling and signing the same book story and title.