Leisurely Book Lover Gifts

Round the garden in eighty days

"1984 by George Orwell. Project 2025. Presidential transition project."

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

'The history of Glue. It's impossible to put down.'

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

"Do you see yourself becoming a movie in five years?"

"There's something weird about Emily. She actually likes school!"

First Novels.

Accelerated reading. Slowpoke reading,

"Meet the author"

Victor Hugo

Reading my Critics

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

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

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

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

"Pssst! Do you have anything on American history?"

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

"And do you, Deborah Tannen, think they know what they're talking about?"

Second hand furniture.

Two books: 'The Joy of Cooking' next to 'The Joy of Dieting'.

"I can't wait for vacation - I'm going to go sun myself in a south-facing window."

"Have you read any of Shakespeare's plays?"

Gen-Next Library

The First Draft. . . Moby Duck.

"I'm in a catch-23 situation."

"I try to write a little bit every day."

Don Quixote

'Stuck on a desert island, in the middle of the ocean, with only a palm tree for company, it's a bloody joke.'

Wishing Well, Wishing Good.

Great works I plan to complete during the lockdown.

Screen Time vs Book Time

'As a famous writer, could you do something to help jumpstart my career?'

Congratulations! All that cramming paid off.