Hopeful Reader Gifts

"Can you recommend a book optimistic about the future that isn't in the fiction section?"

"To be or not to be."

The Book Lover

'Don't believe everything you read in the papers!' (Vicar to lady reading the war cry).

Theodore Dreiser.

"Well, sir, it looks like things are getting pretty serious for Peter and Pauline."

'You always talk about robbing Peter to pay Paul, but you never mention Mary.'

'Don't worry, he'll soon grow into it.'

Monk and Bible and Devil Page Marker

Heaven

'Pop-up Bible.'

I have a dream.

"Don't disturb Daddy darling: he's just received his new issue of "Basic Tools Monthly"..."

The British Hamlet. He says: 'Alas poor Yorick, I knew him ... well, I say knew, more of an acquaintance really. Only met the chap three or four times.'

Pastoring for Dummies

Best Seller of All Times...The Holy Bible:'No fair. You're creating your own readers.'

Stonehenge Books

Casual skydiving.

'Look on the bright side - Our investments with Bernie Madoff must REALLY be paying off by now!'

"Dear Author: Thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to reject your work."

"I see travel and romance. You'll be going away soon. I see a tall, dark stranger with many tattoos."

Little girl to baby: Is that a good book?

Book Shop

'You can lead a horse to water, Ezra, but you can't...?'

Magazine Stand at the Pearly Gates

Open Book Therapy

"I'd appreciate it if you'd wait until school to do that. We've worked long and hard to bring you state-of-the-art home theater."

"I was always afraid to read it before."

'So, read any good book lately?'

Library In Heaven Stocks The Bible And Only The Bible

Another Disappointment for Captain Ahab

"You'd like a book on the meaning of life...fiction or nonfiction?"

Library.

"Shhhh. Mommy just finished a great book and needs a moment to re-adjust to her environment."

Sado-masochists reading in bed.