Tactile Literature Lover Gifts

"It was so noisy in there - all those pages turning."

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

Blue Stockings - Woman revealing herself as author

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

Bob encounters one of the bugs in the Jean Paul Sartre fan website.

'Peter the Flying Hippo is my favorite storybook character without any merchandising tie-ins.'

"After years of cartoon rejections, Bill stooped to trying a little shameless product placement."

The Ray Bradbury classic, 'The Car Alarm.'

"Would you like me to annotate that for you?"

Mr. Metamorphosis: "At least this better than waking up as a cockroach."

Academic Jeopardy ... 'What Was the Maiden Name of Dante Alighieri's Maternal Grandmother?'

The DaVinci Code

Thomas Mann.

"I don't care about the rating on Goodreads. We're reading Cinderella!"

'I didn't dedicate my book, A Lifetime of Wine Tasting, to my 3 ex-wives and nine kids, because they made it possible. I did it because they made it necessary.'

Victor Hugo

'For those with books, open and follow along. For those with laptops, follow me on Twitter.'

Captain Ahab searched for a vaccine.

Kid in time-out writes 'it was the best of time out...'

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Not to be a motion picture - will remain just a book'

Television Readers.

Shakespeare does stand-up comedy in the round.

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

"They've remained remarkably faithful to the text."

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

'Mysteries' section of bookshop reveals secret door.

A vampire sitting on a park bench at night feeding bats.

William Shakespeare a.k.a. Francis Bacon, Earl of Essex....

Shakespeare was bisexual

Robinson decided to name him 'Casual Friday'.

Horti-Culture

Miss, how do you spell "acceptable"? I've Googled every "e" and can't find it.