Subscribing To Book Clubs Gifts

"Dear Book-of-the-Month Club, I wish to cancel my subscription."

The Dorrie Decimal System

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

It's Dostoevsky. It's Melville. It's Flaubert. But it doesn't dance.

"It's about sex and revenge, except for a short chapter on the Continental Congress."

“Who’s a good boy that doesn’t feel obliged to prove it by holding too many interesting literary and social opinions?”

'He took from the rich and gave to the poor? It sounds like wealth redistribution.'

Sue the Author 3PM

"That's five votes for In The Midst of Winter....three votes for The Hollow Ground....and, again, one vote for Moby-Dick."

The World's Biggest Book Club

Isabel Allende

Shakespeare. Hamlet. Romeo and Juliet. "To be or not to be, that is the question". "We are such stuff …As dreams are made of …" "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would small as sweet." That Shakespeare guy had some neat sound bites.

"How to talk to people" "Make them rue the day"

'No room at the inn, baby born in a manger: It's gonna be a great story to tell at parties...'

Do-It-Yourself. Do-it-yourself-With-Good-Friends-and-Pizza-and-A-Few-Beers.

'I'll blurb you if you'll blurb me.'

BOOKSHOP, 'We're pushing our do-it-yourself kit today, sir -- a ream of paper and a dozen pencils.'

"Barb's such a fast reader."

'Read any good Apps lately?'

The writers group met every Tuesday for support and fellowship.

Well, I finished my summer reading list – now what?

"Is this fiction, non-fiction or historical fiction?"

Fyodor Dostoevsky

'Turns out it was J K Rowling, in the drawing room, with a laptop.'

O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art though, Romeo? Seriously, wherefore art thou? Shakespeare in the Dark.

A vicar is reading 'The Great Begatsby' written by Abraham.

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

I'll be honest, Jerry - When you invited me to join your book club, this is not what I expected.

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

BOOKS ON VIDEO/BOOKS ON TAPE/READ YOUR OWN.

Book Lovers in Richmond

'We loved this book. Twenty nine experts tell you how to think independently.'

"No. I don't want to see an all-male production of 'Little Women.' "

"You'll learn a lot at our book club...like how to read between the wines."

'Oooh. By Emily Bronte. A very controversial book...Cruelty! Passion! Death! Risky territory for a woman author in the 1800s.'