Reader With Taste Mugs

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

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

'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."

"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!"

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

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

Distractions Of The Great

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

Audio Books

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

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

Cat rolls up yarn like power cord.

Sock Puppet in Literature

Iris Murdoch

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

Do it yourself books.

The intellectual.

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

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.'

"Chair looks couch potato friendly!"

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

"Barb's such a fast reader."

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

Biggles has a more staid adventure.

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

"I like his earlier work better, particularly the ones I said I didn't like at the time."