Summer Story Seeker Mugs

"I got tired of 'Moby-Dick' taunting me from my bookshelf, so I put it on my Kindle and haven't thought of it since."

"Summer Reading"

"I'm going to talk about the summer before last, it was much more fun."

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

'I don't care if it's hot, I won't go in the water!'

"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."

Scene of seagull troops about to charge a picnic.

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?"

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

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

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

'Sure, it's our pool. . . but who's going to tell him that?'

" 'How I Spent My Summer Vacation,' a treatment by Todd Mozelle, Grade Three."

Blue Stockings

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

What would Charlotte Bronte do, she thought to herself.

The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo.

Downloads.

"Migration? I love chasing the endless summer, but travelling such distances with kids is exhausting..."

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

Book Shop Plot Spoilers

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

Addicted to reading

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

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.