Novel Lovers Gifts

'Read me! Read me!'

Never use a cookbook written by a mystery book author. You never know how things will turn out!

"1984 by George Orwell. Project 2025. Presidential transition project."

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

Bob encounters one of the bugs in the Jean Paul Sartre fan website.

"After years of cartoon rejections, Bill stooped to trying a little shameless product placement."

'Peter the Flying Hippo is my favorite storybook character without any merchandising tie-ins.'

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

'The history of Glue. It's impossible to put down.'

"Do you see yourself becoming a movie in five years?"

"Meet the author"

'I didn't dedicate my book, A Lifetime of Wine Tasting, to my 3 ex-wives and nine kids, because they made it possible. I did it because they made it necessary.'

"There's something weird about Emily. She actually likes school!"

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Thomas Mann.

Victor Hugo

First Novels.

'To most people, 1984 is just a novel; around here it's our instruction manual.'

Television Readers.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

"Pssst! Do you have anything on American history?"

"And do you, Deborah Tannen, think they know what they're talking about?"

"They've remained remarkably faithful to the text."

Second hand furniture.

1847 - Bram Stoker, creator of Dracula was born in Dublin.

Distractions Of The Great

Two books: 'The Joy of Cooking' next to 'The Joy of Dieting'.

"Your usually vicious sarcasm is weak. Go pump some irony."

Gen-Next Library

Silence of the Chickens...

"Have you read any of Shakespeare's plays?"

The First Draft. . . Moby Duck.

Characters jumping out of a book.