Prose Lover Gifts

Slow reading institute - learn to enjoy adjectives, metaphors, alliteration again.

John Bunyan and Alfred Deakin

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

Bob encounters one of the bugs in the Jean Paul Sartre fan website.

Blue Stockings - Woman revealing herself as author

'Peter the Flying Hippo is my favorite storybook character without any merchandising tie-ins.'

"After years of cartoon rejections, Bill stooped to trying a little shameless product placement."

The Ray Bradbury classic, 'The Car Alarm.'

"Would you like me to annotate that for you?"

"Meet The Author"

'I didn't dedicate my book, A Lifetime of Wine Tasting, to my 3 ex-wives and nine kids, because they made it possible. I did it because they made it necessary.'

The DaVinci Code

Thomas Mann.

Mr. Metamorphosis: "At least this better than waking up as a cockroach."

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Now I really hate poetry."

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

"Once upon a midnight dreary / while I pondered weak and weary."

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

Kid in time-out writes 'it was the best of time out...'

"Not to be a motion picture - will remain just a book'

Television Readers.

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

"They've remained remarkably faithful to the text."

Miss, how do you spell "acceptable"? I've Googled every "e" and can't find it.

Robinson decided to name him 'Casual Friday'.

It's Dostoevsky. It's Melville. It's Flaubert. But it doesn't dance.

'Mysteries' section of bookshop reveals secret door.

Horti-Culture

A vampire sitting on a park bench at night feeding bats.

"Your usually vicious sarcasm is weak. Go pump some irony."

Shakespeare was bisexual