Leisure Literature Lover Gifts

Introducing Ambient Books: No beginning...no middle...no end...just a bunch of sentences specially written to soothe and relax the reader.

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

Bob encounters one of the bugs in the Jean Paul Sartre fan website.

Blue Stockings - Woman revealing herself as author

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

"After years of cartoon rejections, Bill stooped to trying a little shameless product placement."

'Peter the Flying Hippo is my favorite storybook character without any merchandising tie-ins.'

"Would you like me to annotate that for you?"

The Ray Bradbury classic, 'The Car Alarm.'

'I'll make my final decision on that promotion of yours, after this game.'

Thomas Mann.

Mr. Metamorphosis: "At least this better than waking up as a cockroach."

Accelerated reading. Slowpoke reading,

The DaVinci Code

Academic Jeopardy ... 'What Was the Maiden Name of Dante Alighieri's Maternal Grandmother?'

First Novels.

'I didn't dedicate my book, A Lifetime of Wine Tasting, to my 3 ex-wives and nine kids, because they made it possible. I did it because they made it necessary.'

Victor Hugo

'For those with books, open and follow along. For those with laptops, follow me on Twitter.'

Kid in time-out writes 'it was the best of time out...'

'I play so hard that I have no time to work hard.'

Television Readers.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Oscar would laugh whenever he recalled his empty existence before golf.

"It's days like this that make me long for days like this."

"Now I really hate poetry."

"Not to be a motion picture - will remain just a book'

'He just burst into my campsite, and broke my banjo!'

Voltaire

"No writers were harmed or mistreated in the preparation of this story."

"Well, how do things look from where you sit?"

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

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

"They've remained remarkably faithful to the text."