Reading Lover Gifts

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

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

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

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

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

Blue Stockings - Woman revealing herself as author

"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.'

The Ray Bradbury classic, 'The Car Alarm.'

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

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

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

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

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

"Meet The Author"

Nathaniel Hawthorne

First Novels.

"Meet the author"

Thomas Mann.

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

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

Accelerated reading. Slowpoke reading,

The DaVinci Code

'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.'

Reading my Critics

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

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.

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