Literary Analyzer Gifts

"That's it?! Boy exploits tree, tree suffers? Shel Silverstein was nuts!"

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

The Bookworm

Reading my Critics

"Now I really hate poetry."

Audio Books

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

Eagle (The Divine Comedy).

Isabel Allende

Günter Grass

"He just found that 'pillage' rhymes with 'village'."

Sensitivity Reader's Digest

"This next song is just a song. Try not to read anything into it."

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

'1001 things to do whilst waiting to get on the internet.'

My Aunt's Left Hook Expels Uriah From The Chaise

Little boy reading a classic whilst his Dad reads a comic.

Writer: Humour and Tragedy.

'I didn't read that scene, but I did highlight several passages.'

Book publishing.

"Oh my goodness. My lecture on John Donne has just been awarded Most Pizzazzy Metaphysical Lecture of the Year."

"He'd make a wonderful main character for a short story, but I wouldn't put up with him for an entire novel."

We never roam anymore.

Shakespeare watching the 'Forsooth Saga'.

'We're looking for something that captures the zeitgeist of the nation...you know, the Great American Tweet.'

The Truth

"I'm sorry-you tapped into something no one cares about."

"This is my first book, but if I like it I may buy another in the near future."

Crossroads - fiction/non fiction.

Dylan Thomas

"Today we will focus on how the author makes the same exact complaints about here life, from her sixth birthday and on."

'A book very interesting'

'can you breath some life into this?'

Through the Looking Glass - Alice Rows the Sheep.

'An alternative to having me psychoanalyze you is to write a book and have the critics do it.'