Collecting Cookbooks Gifts

'Turns out it's not a recipe book after all!'

Unusual Romance

"Bill just does celebrity cook-books these days, that's where the real money is."

'What's the soup of the day?' 'Heinz.'

'Would that be rare, or medium rare?'

Cook in the cookery section.

''Mediterranean cooking', well we've got Jamie Oliver, Delia Smith, Gordon Ramsay and some Italian I've never heard of...'

Dave's How to Puke Book.

Chicken soup for the soul of the chicken in the soup.

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

A woman standing beside a stove full of steaming pots and pans.

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

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

"Another dry scotch Manhattan, Mike. Make it a double."

"Bah, I could've written a better dénouement in my sleep."

"Meet The Author"

"Meet the embellisher 3-5 pm"

Victor Hugo

'I didn't dedicate my book, A Lifetime of Wine Tasting, to my 3 ex-wives and nine kids, because they made it possible. I did it because they made it necessary.'

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

"Tonight! Author book signing." "Develop your inner raging bitch."

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

Not to be a motion picture. Will remain just a book.

Woman blowing dust off book 'Desert Romance'

Rare Books

"It turns out everyone here is self-published."

'Mysteries' section of bookshop reveals secret door.

Characters jumping out of a book.

Great British Eccentrics.

Books: The Wit and Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge