Literary Club Member Gifts

Christmas Eve at Mr. Wardle's

A rival club

"Meet The Author"

Accelerated reading. Slowpoke reading,

The Dorrie Decimal System

'He likes to power nap.'

Blue Stockings

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

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

The Grasshopper's Feast: A Prophetic Vision

It's Dostoevsky. It's Melville. It's Flaubert. But it doesn't dance.

Not to be a motion picture. Will remain just a book.

John Bunyan

"Hey, it's not all fire and brimstone anymore—one of our nine circles is even smoke-free."

Don Quixote

Trilby - 'Je prong!'

"The low-res JPEG of Dorian Gray"

“Who’s a good boy that doesn’t feel obliged to prove it by holding too many interesting literary and social opinions?”

Dickens & Tolstoy Walk into a Bar: " . . . so, to make a short story long . . . "

"Oh, this old thing?"

"Not that I have the time, but I enjoy reading."

'You have to Marvell eh - 'annihalating all that's made to a green thought in a green shade.''

"Here's something called "The Fifty Greatest Countdown Shows Ever!""

Sue the Author 3PM

"I don't care if it is itty-bitty. Turn it off!"

'I'll blurb you if you'll blurb me.'

"It's felt to be his most thought provoking work."

"Barb's such a fast reader."

Treasure Island Book.

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

'The pile of unread books by the bed looks bigger than the futon...'

What would Charlotte Bronte do, she thought to herself.

It was the best of times, it was the wasrtn blanfil trmsl... It was the bnarfy foodel pook. Arghh! Darn reader's block.

A Footnote - Self Portrait of Beardsley, Bound to the God of Nature

Moby Dick