String And Story Enthusiast Gifts

How to play violin while reading a book...

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

Victor Hugo

Impressing dad.

'Where was the TSA?'

'You're going to have your future cut out for you, reading bedtime stories.'

Audio Books

"Finally, the alphabet is paying off."

'Dad's bedtime story was decent, but the special effects were non-existent.'

Eurydice is bitten by a snake

Grizzly bears are gregarious animals.

Goodnight Moon for the Misbegotten

Ant story: 'and so they worked all day and they worked all night and then they worked some more, the end.'

"And that's when the therapist suggested… exposure therapy!"

'Yo-you Ma will now raise our spirits and assuage our pain.'

'You were great at 'Daniel in the Lion's Den!' -- I'd sure like to hear you do 'The Three Little Pigs' sometime!'

"What your memoir really needs is an addiction."

This is the new Director's Cut version of Hansel and Gretel...with additional scenes and three alternative endings!!!

See, Catty-O? I told you dinner was included with admission.

"Always with the String Theory."

'Fyodor Dostoevsky sends weeks describing Alexy Karamazov's quest for a white whale, and then discards the entire chapter."

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

Cinderella and Charming the Clown

"You're writing a memoir? You're seven years old. Do you honestly think you can capture the interest of readers with such a short—wait, is that my name?!"

'And the wicked stepmother looked into her smartphone and said, "Selfie, selfie in my face, who's the fairest in this place?"

"There HAS to be a giant ball at the end of all this string."

"It's true, mommy...the chocolate bunny attacked me - it was self-defense!"

Jacques et Jille

'Well Mimi, what's it going to be...medicine or the cello?'

Hansel and Gretal

"This is what's known as a book."

Alberich steals the gold

"I'll bet she was worn out by the end of teacher's meeting day."

'George said he was coming here to unwind.'

"Personally, I loved your novel. Unfortunately, our e-book editor says it just doesn't work on the little screen!"