Family Book Club Gifts

Family of readers.

The Dorrie Decimal System

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

“Who’s a good boy that doesn’t feel obliged to prove it by holding too many interesting literary and social opinions?”

'He took from the rich and gave to the poor? It sounds like wealth redistribution.'

"That's five votes for In The Midst of Winter....three votes for The Hollow Ground....and, again, one vote for Moby-Dick."

The World's Biggest Book Club

BOOKSHOP, 'We're pushing our do-it-yourself kit today, sir -- a ream of paper and a dozen pencils.'

Shakespeare. Hamlet. Romeo and Juliet. "To be or not to be, that is the question". "We are such stuff …As dreams are made of …" "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would small as sweet." That Shakespeare guy had some neat sound bites.

"Barb's such a fast reader."

Do-It-Yourself. Do-it-yourself-With-Good-Friends-and-Pizza-and-A-Few-Beers.

Isabel Allende

'Read any good Apps lately?'

The writers group met every Tuesday for support and fellowship.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Is this fiction, non-fiction or historical fiction?"

Well, I finished my summer reading list – now what?

"Don't listen to her! She's a cuckoo: what would she know about parenting?!"

'Turns out it was J K Rowling, in the drawing room, with a laptop.'

O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art though, Romeo? Seriously, wherefore art thou? Shakespeare in the Dark.

'It's very fast-paced. The book was over before I could finish reading it.'

I'll be honest, Jerry - When you invited me to join your book club, this is not what I expected.

Book Lovers in Richmond

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

"You'll learn a lot at our book club...like how to read between the wines."

Axel, I notice you read a lot of highbrow books

The Colonel reading Clive's letters to the ladies of the regiment.

Frontispiece to 'The Pickwick Papers'

Ok, ok, last page.

"Wallace couldn't come, but I brought some of his fussy prose."

"Hey - I'd write a book, too, if I could find the time."

Women who Read Too Much

"I couldn't finish that book either."

Bookworm group

'The most moving part, for me, is when they explain how to fuse the main pipe to the power hose.'