Page Turner Devotee Mugs

Addicted to reading

'And this book comes in shiny coffee-table-crisp or library-ready-pre-read and musty.'

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

The Bookworm

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

"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."

"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!'

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

Downloads.

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

Reading

"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."

Technology and literature

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

Bibliomaniac

Small child checks out a book.

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

"Where do you get your derivative ideas?"

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

Head full of Books.

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

The writer's world

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

Roald Dahl's books updated for modern sensitivities.

"I read an unforgettable book! Unfortunately, I don't remember the title and the author..."

'Y'know it started as a bedtime story he told his kids.'

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

Reading room

Free Little Library

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