Collecting Novels Gifts

At Home with the Hard Boiled - "Hey Marsha how 'bout some bourbon..."

Romantic Fiction...

"I thought you might like to have a merrier brain for the new millennium!"

Trilby - 'Wistful and sweet.'

Trilby - 'Three nice clean Englishmen'.

'My wife here has the body of a twenty year old. . . Also the brain of a thirty-nine year old, legs of a twenty-four year old. . .

Bird using a human finger for a fountain pen.

"I've sewn on 2 right hands, and have made you ambidextrous!"

John le Carre goes to MI6 heaven-RIP

"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

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

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

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

"Meet The Author"

"Meet the embellisher 3-5 pm"

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

'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.'

Victor Hugo

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

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

Rare Books

'Mysteries' section of bookshop reveals secret door.

Woman blowing dust off book 'Desert Romance'

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

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

Characters jumping out of a book.

Great British Eccentrics.

Books: The Wit and Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge

Goodnight Moon for the Misbegotten

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