Page Turner Detective Gifts

'Terry often loses himself in a good book.'

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

The Bookworm

"Your hunch was right, Officer Garcia. We'll need a good editor to clean up this manuscript and bring his unfinished novel to a satisfying conclusion."

Not to be a motion picture. Will remain just a book.

You've read the book's dust jacket. Now, play the video game!

"That's five votes for In The Midst of Winter....three votes for The Hollow Ground....and, again, one vote for Moby-Dick."

'I'm not being punished! I'm reading because I happen to enjoy reading!'

Addicted to reading

"You have issues? Be more specific, what issues?"

Kid to boy in library: 'Oh, we came at the busiest part of the day ... it's a reading frenzy.'

I'm currently working on my autobiography. Would you care to help make page 327 interesting?

"There are those who write books to be read and other who write novels for bookshelves."

Downloads.

"I'm ready for summer vacation! A good book takes you where you've never been!"

Technology and literature

"He's writing a novel for the first time in decades. It has less to do with the urge to create or say something new, and more to do with the fact that all his previous books are now out of print."

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

"Where do you get your derivative ideas?"

Ok, ok, last page.

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

"We thought about a restaurant and decided we were more of a bookstore."

Reading in the family.

Small child checks out a book.

Getting the bus back into town from the Bologna Children's Book Fair...

"This is my first book, but if I like it I may buy another in the near future."

Head full of Books.

'It's another office memo from that Mr. Tolstoy.'

'It's a slice of life...I cut a long story short.'

'Actually, the entire novel is a metaphor of me getting rich from the movie rights.'

Irvine Welsh

Reading room

Writing For Dummies Books For Dummies.

Free Little Library

Deadlines, kill fees. Who comes up with these terms?