Novel Lover Gifts

A new book with a little bit of this and a little bit of that.

"It's a stream of consciousness novel like 'Ulysses' I just sort of sat down and wrote it without even thinking of a plot have you had drink I', going to get a seat where do you come from it's hot in here I like blue do you like blue..."

"Next month's book choice is Violet's - and I speak for everyone when I dread to say what I think it might be!"

Mr. Merdle becomes a borrower

"I suppose you don't get this problem with on-line or down-loaded books!"

'I became obese while reading the latest Harry Potter.'

Ernest Hemingway

He'd heard of curling up on the couch with a good book, but he'd never tried it.

The old fashioned, never say die author: 'All right, if they're remaindered, I'll sign the remainders.'

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'It's Blind Pew's map, all right!'

'Sorry, Mr. Wimble -- you've had just about enough Kafka for one day.'

'I knew him when he had his own teeth.'

Buy the Book - Denounce the Author.

"Must...not gaze into...his eye! For I may...never break free!"

"So, Poirot, mon ami, do you like using our little grey cells?"

Barry Unsworth

Kiran Desai

Bookshop Adventure

Lord Byron

Erotica

'Choose, Fenster

'Grampa, how can we become a book, like you?'

What would Charlotte Bronte do, she thought to herself.

Trilby - 'Tout vient a point, a qui sait attendre'.

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

Trilby - The flexible flageolet

Illustration from 'Robinson Crusoe'

The locksmith undaunted

Previously in our book, Harry had traveled … Skip intro.

Sylvia Plath

"It's a novel about interest rates."

"I don't care if it is itty-bitty. Turn it off!"

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk