Saint Story Seeker Gifts

"Hey, great death!"

'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."

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!'

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

The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo.

What would Charlotte Bronte do, she thought to herself.

'Yeah, I know your idea of heaven is to play golf all day, but all we have is shuffleboard!'

Addicted to reading

Downloads.

Book Shop Plot Spoilers

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

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

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

Homage to Hans Christian Andersen

Freedom of the press

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.

Technology and literature

"If I survive this holiday, I'm moving to a pond."

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

Book Lovers in Richmond

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

"I'll probably die an old woman before I get that bedtime story."

"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,

"Shall we put it in play?"

Diet Books: Fiction/Non-Fiction

Gabriel Garcia Marquez