Mini Book Clubbers Gifts

The Book Club

The Dorrie Decimal System

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

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

Sue the Author 3PM

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

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

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

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

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

'No room at the inn, baby born in a manger: It's gonna be a great story to tell at parties...'

"How to talk to people" "Make them rue the day"

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.

Isabel Allende

'I'll blurb you if you'll blurb me.'

The World's Biggest Book Club

"Barb's such a fast reader."

'Read any good Apps lately?'

The writers group met every Tuesday for support and fellowship.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

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

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

BOOKS ON VIDEO/BOOKS ON TAPE/READ YOUR OWN.

"No. I don't want to see an all-male production of 'Little Women.' "

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

A vicar is reading 'The Great Begatsby' written by Abraham.

Book Lovers in Richmond

'Oooh. By Emily Bronte. A very controversial book...Cruelty! Passion! Death! Risky territory for a woman author in the 1800s.'

Frontispiece to 'The Pickwick Papers'

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

Axel, I notice you read a lot of highbrow books

Science Books. Do you have any books about Lepidoptera? Yes, and would you like to join "The Book of the Moth Club"?

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