Bookish Sunbather Mugs

'Welcome to I shell.'

Sunbathers.

'With all the tanning lotion, sun block and moisturizers, we're more coated with batter than the onion rings!'

Beach flirting

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

'If you're using this for research into your next book then you can sleep in the spare room!'

'I have one last question: this beach is clothing optional, right?'

Reading in the family.

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

"Wow - A flying Chaucer!!"

"How?"

'I need all the heat I can get before I have to go to the North Pole to prepare for this Christmas.'

Major Poets, Minor Poets, Free Agents.

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

Academics at the Beach

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

Genie Gets a Good View on the Beach.

DATING FOR NON-DUMMIES

Theory of Gravity

'She certainly gets a lot out of her bikini.'

(The really ugly duckling)

Academics at the Beach: "Camus might agree with you. De Beauvoir? Maybe. But Sartre? Never."

'Icarus, let's get a tan.'

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

"You usually don't see the classics wash up on the beach these days."

Summer

Crab reads 'The Little Book of Clams.'

"If that book is gonna deposit hundreds of grains of sand in our bed later tonight, it better be damn juicy."

Edna O'Brien

'Have you stopped striving yet?'

"As a matter of fact, most of the beaches there are nude beaches!"