Novella Lover Gifts

"This place is famous for its short fiction about food."

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

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

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

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

'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.'

"Once upon a time, there was a princess who wasn't about to take anyone's sh*t."

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

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

Distractions Of The Great

"Dad, please tell me again about that mass production and consumerism."

'Charlotte's Website' ('The children's book classic rewritten for the electronic era!')

Kid to mom: 'Tell me again about the time you helped fortress a city, subdue hostile fire and got home and baked us all raspberry strudels.'

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

"It that it? I don't have my contacts in."

The intellectual.

'Which wine goes best with 'the old man and the sea'?'

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

Iris Murdoch

"It's basically the 'Tragedy of King Lear' but with animated penguins."

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

Thomas Hardy

"I'm trying to forget a pussycat."

". . . I called this meeting to communicate that I had dinner Noah..."

What would Charlotte Bronte do, she thought to herself.

"That dream catcher may be working a little too well."

"She's a show dog...purebred, of course." "That's great! My guy's a Sanskrit scholar...wrote for the Harvard Lampoon."

"I just never 'think I can' anymore."

"I like his earlier work better, particularly the ones I said I didn't like at the time."

Of Mice and Men.

Toys were me: lessons learned never growing up

I just reread a great book I downloaded from Amazon about five years ago. You rekindled an old relationship!

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