Reader With Taste Mugs

'Which wine goes best with 'the old man and the sea'?'

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

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

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

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

"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.'

"I don't care about the rating on Goodreads. We're reading Cinderella!"

"I finally found a use for that old home repair book..."

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Distractions Of The Great

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

'Charlotte's Website' ('The children's book classic rewritten for the electronic era!')

Audio Books

Cat rolls up yarn like power cord.

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

The intellectual.

"Yep, I've read this chapter before."

Iris Murdoch

Updated Classis: Alice Through the You Tube.

Do it yourself books.

"It that it? I don't have my contacts in."

Sock Puppet in Literature

A woman with a novel and poetry handbag.

"It's basically the 'Tragedy of King Lear' but with animated penguins."

Thomas Hardy

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

'Actually I'm a nerdivore. I only eat your lamer plants and animals: duckbill platypi, cumquats, daffodils, the occasional mudshark.'

Biggles has a more staid adventure.

"She's a show dog...purebred, of course." "That's great! My guy's a Sanskrit scholar...wrote for the Harvard Lampoon."

"If I Can Make One Critic Smile..."

"Chair looks couch potato friendly!"

"Barb's such a fast reader."

"I'll be honest... there are books by James Joyce that are easier to follow than these bad boys."