Joining A Book Club Gifts

Isabel Allende

The Dorrie Decimal System

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

It's Dostoevsky. It's Melville. It's Flaubert. But it doesn't dance.

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

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

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

Sue the Author 3PM

'I'll blurb you if you'll blurb me.'

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

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

'No room at the inn, baby born in a manger: It's gonna be a great story to tell at parties...'

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."

"How to talk to people" "Make them rue the day"

The World's Biggest Book Club

'Read any good Apps lately?'

The writers group met every Tuesday for support and fellowship.

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

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

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

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

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

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

'We loved this book. Twenty nine experts tell you how to think independently.'

Book Lovers in Richmond

A vicar is reading 'The Great Begatsby' written by Abraham.

"No. I don't want to see an all-male production of 'Little Women.' "

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

'Oooh. By Emily Bronte. A very controversial book...Cruelty! Passion! Death! Risky territory for a woman author in the 1800s.'

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

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

Science Books. Do you have any books about Lepidoptera? Yes, and would you like to join "The Book of the Moth Club"?