Nostalgic Novel Enthusiast Prints

Oliver introduced to the respectable old gentleman

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

"Lassie, go get help!" "Oh Timmy you idiot! Not again!"

"In high school, I was quite the star in metal shop."

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

"I don't care about the rating on Goodreads. We're reading Cinderella!"

"I'm going to talk about the summer before last, it was much more fun."

Honoré de Balzac

"String ... you mean it doesn't have a remote controller to operate it?"

'It's one of Larry King's earliest shows.'

'Dewey! Grandpa's stuck again. Give him a couple of whacks upside the head.'

'I think I'll stay in and try to catch up on my reading.'

Before the Internet

'Take my tip,sonny and say it with jelly babies.'

'Bring out yer books!'

"In my life, I've had seven cars, six jobs, five houses, four bypass operations, and three wives!"

Sock Puppet in Literature

'I don't care what the Hares have. Dial-Up is good enough for us!'

"Remember back in the day when I was a real heartbreaker?" "Riiight... now the only thing you break is wind."

"Tell me again, Grandpa, about how you let your freak flag fly."

'Jerry's 'old school'.'

Paul goes home for the holidays

"More quarters! For God's sake, more quarters!!"

"It seems like only yesterday that Dad told me I'll be an adult before I know it."

"When I was young my parents couldn't afford to give me too much, too soon."

"I can remember when having a '212' phone number still meant something in this world."

Fun (circa 1955)

'New Game'

The Paper Route

"When I was a puppy, I barked as a puppy, I understood as a puppy, I thought as a puppy. But when I became a dog, I put away puppy things except for my shabby, old, beat-up stuffy toy. I still freaking love this thing."

'Thirty years from now, this will seem terribly quaint and awash in charming period detail.'

Three kids in a trench coat, twenty years later.

"My inner child wants to have a playdate with your inner child."

Before pagers,mobile phones and the internet.

"I'm thinking of getting the old band back together."