Life Story Explorer Gifts

Reading a biography makes me feel like a surgeon. I'm holding a person's life in my hands.

Characters jumping out of a book.

"Did you get my tweet?"

"A sentimental journey of a thousand miles begins with the first martini."

"Ma, what does 'kosher' mean?"

A baseball player is too busy checking his smartphone to catch a ball.

Christopher Isherwood

"I became a mentor because I needed more direction in life."

"What would you recommend to hold a seven-year-old girl's attention in a car from East Seventy-eighth Street to Bridgehampton?"

Book of Life, Answers in Back.

Highway of Life. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump.

"I remembered that time you said you wished you had a biographer."

"Great, now we're lost."

It's a picture book. The words aren't called "subtitles."

Getting the bus back into town from the Bologna Children's Book Fair...

'I wish I were your age again, and knew what I know now.'

"...as the devices were nestled on their chargers with care,..."

"Now give me something intimate to say."

'Am I on your good Facebook friend list, or on your bad Facebook friend list?'

"I'm not sure if the audience is ready to embrace you in a romantic comedy."

"I didn't hear the full story, but you came from either the stork or ebay."

Danger Quicksand

"To tell you the truth, I never thought downward mobility would be so, well, downward."

"I just feel like we're not connecting."

Are we going to raise her as a cat person or a dog person?

People crossing the street while texting use white canes.

"I love talking to you about my problems. We should do a podcast."

'Oversensitive Car Alarm'

'Please tell me there's more to this than this.'

'Instead of a baby sister, Dear, Daddy and I will give you your choice between kitten or puppy.'

"We can't go on meeting like this, I'm practically broke."

How?

'He's giving us a final request? Ask for a glass of Beaujolais Nouveau - that'll give us till November.'

The author will be signing books for fifteen minutes.

"Do you think he's taking this security blanket thing a bit too seriously?"