Literary Traveler Pillows

Universe of reading

'Can you tell me where James Herriot lives?'

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

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.

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

"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

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

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

The intellectual.

Iris Murdoch

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

Mr. Punch in Venice

Eagle (The Divine Comedy).

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

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

Thomas Hardy

Isabel Allende

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

'You want a quick read? How about this one: 'Memoirs of an Amnesic'?'

Workaholic's Hoilday Appartment