Lover Of Russian Literature Gifts

Ivan Turgenev

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

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

Blue Stockings - Woman revealing herself as author

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

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

"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.'

"Would you like me to annotate that for you?"

The Ray Bradbury classic, 'The Car Alarm.'

Victor Hugo

Mr. Metamorphosis: "At least this better than waking up as a cockroach."

'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.'

First Novels.

Academic Jeopardy ... 'What Was the Maiden Name of Dante Alighieri's Maternal Grandmother?'

The DaVinci Code

Thomas Mann.

'For those with books, open and follow along. For those with laptops, follow me on Twitter.'

Kid in time-out writes 'it was the best of time out...'

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

Television Readers.

"No writers were harmed or mistreated in the preparation of this story."

Voltaire

"Now I really hate poetry."

"Not to be a motion picture - will remain just a book'

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

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

Shakespeare was bisexual

Horti-Culture

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

A vampire sitting on a park bench at night feeding bats.

Distractions Of The Great

'Mysteries' section of bookshop reveals secret door.

Miss, how do you spell "acceptable"? I've Googled every "e" and can't find it.