Parenting Book Club Gifts

"According to this, we just keep it alive until it can take care of itself—between seventeen and forty-five years."

"Don't listen to her! She's a cuckoo: what would she know about parenting?!"

The Dorrie Decimal System

'Look! The new long awaited, highly anticipated but ultimately disappointing novel by that guy you like.'

'He took from the rich and gave to the poor? It sounds like wealth redistribution.'

“Who’s a good boy that doesn’t feel obliged to prove it by holding too many interesting literary and social opinions?”

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

BOOKSHOP, 'We're pushing our do-it-yourself kit today, sir -- a ream of paper and a dozen pencils.'

The World's Biggest Book Club

Isabel Allende

Shakespeare. Hamlet. Romeo and Juliet. "To be or not to be, that is the question". "We are such stuff …As dreams are made of …" "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would small as sweet." That Shakespeare guy had some neat sound bites.

"Barb's such a fast reader."

Do-It-Yourself. Do-it-yourself-With-Good-Friends-and-Pizza-and-A-Few-Beers.

The writers group met every Tuesday for support and fellowship.

'Read any good Apps lately?'

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Is this fiction, non-fiction or historical fiction?"

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

'Turns out it was J K Rowling, in the drawing room, with a laptop.'

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

'It's very fast-paced. The book was over before I could finish reading it.'

Book Lovers in Richmond

I'll be honest, Jerry - When you invited me to join your book club, this is not what I expected.

Newborn Chaos

Frontispiece to 'The Pickwick Papers'

The Colonel reading Clive's letters to the ladies of the regiment.

"Hey - I'd write a book, too, if I could find the time."

Women who Read Too Much

"I couldn't finish that book either."

Bookworm group

'The most moving part, for me, is when they explain how to fuse the main pipe to the power hose.'

"I just want to say thanks for getting me into this writing group."

One book... One book... One book...

Dog Book Club

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