Bookish Buffoon Gifts

Book Burp

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

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

'Hard to follow...'

Guide reading book called 'A farewell to arms.'

I downloaded Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" into it's memory, and now the "command" key isn't working.

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

"Now you're just being a jerk!"

Book Worm

"Would you mind moving to your doggy bed? I'd like to sit in my chair. I know you can hear me. Your book is upside down."

Litteratti K9s.

"Audacity, noun. Unrestrained impudence. Impudence... Impudence... Impudent, adjective. Marked by impertinent disrespect. Impertinent... Impertinent..."

N't. Dear, we're commas. Get down here before you get hurt.

Dog Training. Most of the choices the dogs made for their book reports are logical. The labrador retriever chose "Catch-22." The terrier, who loves to dig, chose "Journey to the Center of the Earth." The basset hound is doing his on "The Howling." and the shar-pei picked "A Wrinkle in Time." But the dachshund's choice confuses me. Even with the ground-hugging physique, he selected "Wuthering Heights."

"What a success! We've sold all our copies. You're a great team! Let's go for beer, pizza and crisps - my treat!"

Meet The Ghostwriter

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

Scene from an early draft of Moby Dick

Larry's Literary Market.

'Sorry professor, my mind was some other place.'

'I want something by Anais Nin... but not the naughty Anais Nin!'

'Oooh, man... I meant to express that as an interior monologue!' ~ Fred, left to his own literary devices.

"Your manuscript is utter trash, of course. How does a half-million first printing sound to you?"

"Books about unicorns? Fantasy section. Next to the biographies of honest politicians."

William Blake.

The 'I'm Almost Finished With War And Peace' Bookmark

Michel De Montaigne is quotes as saying the following...

'You put the fortunes in AFTER you bake the cookies!'

"Absolutely perfect! How did you know?"

Chicken Soup For The Soul's Soul.

'You're security!'

'Camilo José Cela'

Book in library - 'Crash tests for dummies' (being read by a crash test dummy).

Eat, Pray, Love Hot Dogs

"I wish I'd never taught him to read - now he takes forever to go to the bathroom."