Saddle Story Seeker Gifts

'Remember the old days, Jake, when it was just a cattle drive? Now cattle gotta 'jog' to the stockyard.'

'Don't put any money on him. I caught him betting on the favourite.'

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

"I like movies that resemble my life, so I don't feel like I'm wasting time watching a movie."

"Max! Oh, my God! There's like a billion moving ideas in there!"

"His exercise wheel has lost all its fascination sinces he started reading Hemingway."

"Not that I have the time, but I enjoy reading."

"He's got no idea how to run a Husky team."

There's a crew here from 60 minutes and they're coming this way.

"Mom, I'm bored. Do you know something I can get hysterical and panicky about?"

"Tell me again, Grandpa, about how you let your freak flag fly."

Blue Stockings

'I'm not being punished! I'm reading because I happen to enjoy reading!'

The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo.

What would Charlotte Bronte do, she thought to herself.

'You want a quick read? How about this one: 'Memoirs of an Amnesic'?'

Wendy likes horses...and she is a keen cook.

Book Shop Plot Spoilers

"I'm sad to hear everybody lived happily ever after. That means no sequels to this story."

'How's this new concept? Instead of a gunfight, the hero overpowers the villian with a heartfelt homily on the sanctity of family values.'

Kid to boy in library: 'Oh, we came at the busiest part of the day ... it's a reading frenzy.'

Downloads.

Addicted to reading

"That was too many fresh original voices for one night."

"The Taco is good on the trail but where do I put the drink?"

Freedom of the press

Homage to Hans Christian Andersen

Technology and literature

"It's a great story, funny and entertaining - and better still it's not won a single prize for literature."

Trueman Dewayne Lafayette: collector of the imaginary,

'I suppose that's where things get ironed out.'

Book Lovers in Richmond

John Barth wrote "Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story." That he did, little buddy. But what if a person spends most of his life watching tv, films, Youtube, Instagram, Facebook, etc? What if my -- I mean, this person's -- life story is watching other people's life stories? Does that make other people the hero of this person's story? Sometimes I don't know where I end and Kanye begins. That'd be somewhere around Kim Kardashian.

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

Diet Books: Fiction/Non-Fiction