Literary Traveler Gifts

Universe of reading

'Can you tell me where James Herriot lives?'

"Isn't this right out of Peter Mayle?"

Robert Frost. "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood..." And that was before they had GPS's!

Alice Through the Looking Glass - Alice Climbs Through The Mirror.

Kit's mother on a journey

On the dark road

Maid using a gridiron as a warming-pan in an Irish hotel.

Stephen King

1 hour delay, 2 hour delay, 3 hour delay.

'They're booked.'

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

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."

'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.'

The Bookworm

Reading my Critics

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

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

Distractions Of The Great

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

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

"This bag is carry-on, and this one is kick-drop-throw-and-pile-on."

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

The intellectual.

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

Mr. Punch in Venice

Iris Murdoch

Eagle (The Divine Comedy).

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

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

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

Thomas Hardy