Bookish Explorer Gifts

'A 'book,' eh? -- Where's the tutorial?'

Aubrey Beardsley's Book-Plate

Man with barking dog on lead sees Cheshire cat in tree.

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

"I don't care if it is itty-bitty. Turn it off!"

A man on a giant book poses as Rodin's The Thinker.

"I'm ready for summer vacation! A good book takes you where you've never been!"

"Some Debussy, Igor."

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

'They said 'write what you know.' So I didn't write anything.'

The Grapes of Wrath finally get some professional help.

"Wow - A flying Chaucer!!"

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

Reading in the family.

"It's such a nice day. Why don't you go outside and plagiarize something?"

Man read's Newton's 'Philosophiae Naturalis Principa Mathematica' and says: 'Blimey Isaac, this is, er, pretty heavy stuff.'

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

' Sheesh! I think people are getting tired of hearing those fables of Aesop's

John Galsworthy

"I'm still looking, sir?"

Lowbrow Lolita

Scene from an early draft of Moby Dick

Theory of Gravity

"As your first novel, it starts out badly and just falls away!"

"That's a beautiful poem, but of course, if you took the road less traveled, we'd make sure you have your GPS."

Bestsellers have sold so well there are none at all on the shelves.

Major Poets, Minor Poets, Free Agents.

Oliver Twist - Oliver,with the Pickpocketing Artful Dodger's Mode

(The really ugly duckling)

William Blake.

'I found some information in this book for my school paper. How do I click 'print'?'

English major will work for food.

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

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