Literary Reviewer Gifts

"In my spare time, I write reviews on Goodreads."

Literary critics have a very special sense of humor.

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

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

'Peter the Flying Hippo is my favorite storybook character without any merchandising tie-ins.'

"After years of cartoon rejections, Bill stooped to trying a little shameless product placement."

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

Thought for today: "All the world's a stage." - Shakespeare. And boy, are there a lot of drama critics.

"Meet The Author"

Thomas Mann.

First Novels.

'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.'

Accelerated reading. Slowpoke reading,

The Dorrie Decimal System

Blue Stockings

"Now I really hate poetry."

'He likes to power nap.'

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Why we need poetry. . .

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

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

German Expressionist Breakfast

John Bunyan

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

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

The Grasshopper's Feast: A Prophetic Vision

"It turns out everyone here is self-published."

"Lautrec or Gary? Hmmm... We'll take Gary."

Shakespeare was bisexual

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

Distractions Of The Great

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

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