Italophile Pillows

'Now, what's Italian for pizza?'

'Pepperoni: Muse of Pizza'

Petrarch

Italy

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

Edgar Allen Poe

The Dorrie Decimal System

Honoré de Balzac

"Now Playing: One of those Jane Austen movies."

Man packing suitcase with French vocabulary

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

"What's he going to do now, break wind?"

"Not that I have the time, but I enjoy reading."

Piggy bank #6: Union Jack.

Leaning Wine Bottle of Pisa

Welcome to Stratford-On-Avon...Birthplace of William Shakespeare...Park not here, lest ye be towed!

Literary Canines.

Brünnhilde's Funeral Pyre

Meet the author - celebrity autobiographies,

"Barb's such a fast reader."

"You have no idea what it's like to be a 'just between you and me' person in a 'just between you and I' world."

Litterary Dogs.

'Yes, it's just a little volume.'

Statue is moved to hold up the leaning tower of Pisa.

'Read that last part back to me.'

'This book is so rare it's never been published.'

Friedrich Schiller

Shakespeare Quote

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

'Chicken soup for dummies who don't sweat the small stuff.'

A man and his dog both reading.

"Nevermore."

'Dropping the Pilot'-the Fall of Bismarck

'Yes, your papers seem to have lots of citations, but I've checked: They're all self-citations...'