Joining A Reading Club Gifts

'Mystery of Flight' book flying away from boy reading it.

The Dorrie Decimal System

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

"I did the math. If we want to read all of Proust in this lifetime, we have to start tomorrow morning."

'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?”

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

Isabel Allende

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

"Barb's such a fast reader."

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

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.

The World's Biggest Book Club

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

'Read any good Apps lately?'

The writers group met every Tuesday for support and fellowship.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

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

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

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

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

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

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

Book Lovers in Richmond

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

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

"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."

Frontispiece to 'The Pickwick Papers'

The Colonel reading Clive's letters to the ladies of the regiment.

Women who Read Too Much

"I couldn't finish that book either."

Bookworm group

'The most moving part, for me, is when they explain how to fuse the main pipe to the power hose.'