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'Now, what's Italian for pizza?'

'Pepperoni: Muse of Pizza'

Petrarch

Italy

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

Edgar Allen Poe

Victor Hugo

The Dorrie Decimal System

Honoré de Balzac

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

"There's only one 'L' in colosseum."

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

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

Man packing suitcase with French vocabulary

George Orwell

'Which wine goes best with 'the old man and the sea'?'

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

Leaning Wine Bottle of Pisa

Piggy bank #6: Union Jack.

Gunter Grass

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

"Barb's such a fast reader."

Literary Canines.

Meet the author - celebrity autobiographies,

Brünnhilde's Funeral Pyre

"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."

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

Litterary Dogs.

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

'Read that last part back to me.'

Shakespeare Quote

Friedrich Schiller

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

"Nevermore."

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