Paperback Lover Gifts

'I used to be somebody. . . I used to be a contender. . .'

'My battery is dead. How does it end?'

Very Important Secret Government Papers.

'Bring out yer books!'

Bookstore: No chargers or batteries needed!

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

'My penmanship has really improved since I got a laser printer.'

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

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

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

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

First Novels.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Victor Hugo

"Meet the author"

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

Reading my Critics

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

This is a 'text book' it's a bit like a website but printed on paper.

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

Second hand furniture.

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

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

Rare Books

Gen-Next Library

The First Draft. . . Moby Duck.

"I'm in a catch-23 situation."

Wishing Well, Wishing Good.

"I try to write a little bit every day."

Don Quixote

'Stuck on a desert island, in the middle of the ocean, with only a palm tree for company, it's a bloody joke.'

Great works I plan to complete during the lockdown.

Screen Time vs Book Time

'As a famous writer, could you do something to help jumpstart my career?'

Congratulations! All that cramming paid off.