Literary Nonsense Lover Gifts

"If it's all right, I prefer the name Dave."

"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.'

'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.'

"Now I really hate poetry."

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

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

Through the Looking Glass - Queen Alice with Frog

The intellectual.

Iris Murdoch

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

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

Thomas Hardy

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

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

"Tracey, this is Gene. He also read the Nancy Reagan book in unbound galleys."

"I'm trying to forget a pussycat."

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

Of Mice and Men.

Litterary Dogs.

Trading half a kingdom for a lesser steed!

Lord Byron

Alice in Wonderland - Painting the Rose Tree.

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

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

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

"I think I see your deadline approaching."

Dinner at the Jolly Sandboys (opening to Ch 19)