Mama's Book Club T-Shirts

'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.'

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

Birds reading over woman's shoulder

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

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

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

Shakespeare. Hamlet. Romeo and Juliet. "To be or not to be, that is the question". "We are such stuff …As dreams are made of …" "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would small as sweet." That Shakespeare guy had some neat sound bites.

"Barb's such a fast reader."

Do-It-Yourself. Do-it-yourself-With-Good-Friends-and-Pizza-and-A-Few-Beers.

The World's Biggest Book Club

Isabel Allende

"Like that?"

'Read any good Apps lately?'

The writers group met every Tuesday for support and fellowship.

Well, I finished my summer reading list – now what?

"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?!"

'Turns out it was J K Rowling, in the drawing room, with a laptop.'

I'll be honest, Jerry - When you invited me to join your book club, this is not what I expected.

O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art though, Romeo? Seriously, wherefore art thou? Shakespeare in the Dark.

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

Book Lovers in Richmond

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

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

Ok, ok, last page.

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

"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."

Frontispiece to 'The Pickwick Papers'

Women who Read Too Much

"I couldn't finish that book either."

Bookworm group