Mama's Book Club Gifts

'How 'bout finishing the story, mom. It's past dad's bedtime.'

The Dorrie Decimal System

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

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

'He took from the rich and gave to the poor? It sounds like wealth redistribution.'

Birds reading over woman's shoulder

“Who’s a good boy that doesn’t feel obliged to prove it by holding too many interesting literary and social opinions?”

Isabel Allende

"Barb's such a fast reader."

BOOKSHOP, 'We're pushing our do-it-yourself kit today, sir -- a ream of paper and a dozen pencils.'

"Like that?"

The writers group met every Tuesday for support and fellowship.

'Read any good Apps lately?'

"Is this fiction, non-fiction or historical fiction?"

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Don't listen to her! She's a cuckoo: what would she know about parenting?!"

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

'It's very fast-paced. The book was over before I could finish reading it.'

Book Lovers in Richmond

"You'll learn a lot at our book club...like how to read between the wines."

"Wallace couldn't come, but I brought some of his fussy prose."

"Hey - I'd write a book, too, if I could find the time."

The Colonel reading Clive's letters to the ladies of the regiment.

Frontispiece to 'The Pickwick Papers'

Women who Read Too Much

"I couldn't finish that book either."

'The most moving part, for me, is when they explain how to fuse the main pipe to the power hose.'

Bookworm group