Foreign Book Lover Gifts

"I know it's a foreign book...but I'm reading it with a local accent."

"1984 by George Orwell. Project 2025. Presidential transition project."

I should be a writer when I grow up...

'The history of Glue. It's impossible to put down.'

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

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

"Do you see yourself becoming a movie in five years?"

"There's something weird about Emily. She actually likes school!"

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Victor Hugo

"Meet the author"

First Novels.

Reading my Critics

"Pssst! Do you have anything on American history?"

"And do you, Deborah Tannen, think they know what they're talking about?"

Second hand furniture.

"Have you read any of Shakespeare's plays?"

Two books: 'The Joy of Cooking' next to 'The Joy of Dieting'.

Gen-Next Library

The First Draft. . . Moby Duck.

"I'm in a catch-23 situation."

Wishing Well, Wishing Good.

Don Quixote

'Stuck on a desert island, in the middle of the ocean, with only a palm tree for company, it's a bloody joke.'

"I try to write a little bit every day."

Screen Time vs Book Time

"Say hello to my little friend."

Great works I plan to complete during the lockdown.

'As a famous writer, could you do something to help jumpstart my career?'

Congratulations! All that cramming paid off.

What Harper Lee's REALLY been up to all these years

"Hurry up with that dictionary!"

The World's Biggest Book Club

"I recommend that you two find a way to spice up your shelf life."

The Beard in the Stone