Collecting Storybooks Gifts

Alice in Wonderland-Hare and Hatter putting Dormouse in Teapot

What the storybook failed to tell you is that Humpty was high on crack and thought he could fly.

"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.

'Br'er Fox said 'I'm going to throw you into the briar patch'...And Br'er Rabbit said, 'Please,please don't taser me!''

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

"Meet The Author"

"Meet the embellisher 3-5 pm"

Victor Hugo

Swan Fairy Tales

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

'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.

"Well, what did you expect? They were both missing vital organs."

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

"Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down, broke his crown and Jill said 'I told you so'."

Fairy Library - Frontispiece to Jack and the Beanstalk

'Mysteries' section of bookshop reveals secret door.

Rare Books

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

Woman blowing dust off book 'Desert Romance'

The Poky Little Pupa.

J. R. R. Tolkien

"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

Sue the Author 3PM

'The definition of OBSOLETE: old fashioned dictionaries.'

Do it yourself books.