Old-school Bookworm Gifts

Two Generations of Readers

'With 73 dog obedience books read between us, I think we must consider defeat.'

Thomas Mann.

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

hard-boiled egg...

Gen-Next Library

"Max! Oh, my God! There's like a billion moving ideas in there!"

Blue Stockings - Female poet who has not sold any of her books

'When I asked you to do research for your assignment, I meant the library not on Google!'

Multi-Generational Books

A kangeroo and it's baby read books about understanding each other.

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

"Harry Potter and the People Who Care Way Too Much About Harry Potter"

'It must be a problem of interpretation. I've read this book DOZENS of times, and I keep winding up here!'

K9 Literati

"What your memoir really needs is an addiction."

The Da Vinci Cod

The Lessons of VietnamThe Lessons of Iran and ContraThe Lessons of Iraq.

"First they came for the horoscope and the crossword and I did nothing. Then they came for the cartoonists and there was no-one left to satirise it."

Publisher. "The Laws of Motion " is a little dry for a title, Mr. Newton. How about something catchier like "When Push Comes to Shove"?

'Is this your first book launch?'

Cut out and keep your own Marcel Proust.

Friedrich Schiller

'I don't like reading on screen, so I'm printing the internet to look at it later.'

"Don't be a sentimental fool, Harker!"

A.M Gorky

Bug reading book has antennae that are lights.

'Social and political revolution? Check out our 'Do It Yourself' section.'

Beyond Dante

A man reading 'Beach Chairs for Dummies'

'Are you writing my symptoms, or is that your autobiography?'

"Hon, I'm taking your advice and starting a new chapter."

"This is the way I like it - I pretend to be asleep and he doesn't bother me."

Childhood

"It's a novel about interest rates."