Literature Aficionado Gifts

"You have no idea what it's like to be a 'just between you and me' person in a 'just between you and I' world."

Sherlock Holmes with a magnifying glass.

"You're in for a treat—Gregor awoke this morning from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a killer tapas chef."

Public library - deep end, shallow end.

"Whoops - I Accidentally Pressed 'Elevator Pitch.'"

It was the same old story: following too close. Once again Bob was pulled over and charged with plagiarism.

'I'd forgotten how non-textual nature could be.'

Poetry Buff.

"It's the annual report."

King's horses and King's men try to put humpty jigsaw puzzle back together.

Books: Closed Down Due To Exasperation.

Hedgehog reading Spine Chilling Tales

'And I thought I went on and on...'

Nicholas makes his first visit to Mr. Bray

'I've been speed-reading this book - only took 15 minutes. It's about Russia.'

'An ebook! What are you reading?' 'Against technology: From the Luddites to neo-Luddism.'

"Polly want to abandon speaking of herself in the third person."

Don't you see, Kreutzer? That's why we have all this literature. So you won't duplicate an experiment that's already been done, and there's no reason at all why you should be duplicating Smedly's experiments. After all, he shares a lab with you.

"Same old, same old, Rapunzel.

Policeman

"Oh well, I'm off the see the orthopedist."

The Return of Tannhauser to Venusberg

Alice in Wonderland - Alice with Gryphon and Mock Turtle

Philip Larkin

Person Reading For Pleasure

" 'And so the crack-whore princess and her pimp lived happily ever after. The end.' O.K., that's it. Lights out."

"I'm sorry, Susie, but right now we're not in the market for a 'kiss and tell' book."

'I preferred it in the book.'

Pregnant Juliets nurse using police code to threaten Romeo

Henrik Ibsen

'...and what's more, they're all first editions.'

'Right so lets be clear, when you said my book was a turgid reworking of a sad collection of hackneyed ideas you actually meant that it was a groundbreaking work of originality and genius...'

Formerly books on Paper.

How a poet works

"He was a big man, but he moved like a cat."