Literary Mix-up Lover Gifts

Goodnight Moon for the Misbegotten

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

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

"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.'

"Well, isn't that embarrassing."

'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.'

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Distractions Of The Great

"Your usually vicious sarcasm is weak. Go pump some irony."

'Charlotte's Website' ('The children's book classic rewritten for the electronic era!')

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

"It that it? I don't have my contacts in."

The intellectual.

'Which wine goes best with 'the old man and the sea'?'

Iris Murdoch

"It's basically the 'Tragedy of King Lear' but with animated penguins."

'On second thought, let's try it the other way around... My head on a lion's body.'

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

Thomas Hardy

"She's a show dog...purebred, of course." "That's great! My guy's a Sanskrit scholar...wrote for the Harvard Lampoon."

"Sorry, that's not my table."

"I like his earlier work better, particularly the ones I said I didn't like at the time."

'Fyodor Dostoevsky sends weeks describing Alexy Karamazov's quest for a white whale, and then discards the entire chapter."

Of Mice and Men.

I just reread a great book I downloaded from Amazon about five years ago. You rekindled an old relationship!

Alice in Wonderland - Painting the Rose Tree.

Well, I finished my summer reading list – now what?

Litterary Dogs.

Trading half a kingdom for a lesser steed!

Lord Byron

"By God, for a minute there it suddenly all made sense!"

Dinner at the Jolly Sandboys (opening to Ch 19)

"I think I see your deadline approaching."