Wannabe Bibliophile Mugs

Not A Bookstore: Non-books that look like books for folks who don't read books, but want people to think they read books.

Heaven

"It was Socrates, wasn't it, who said, 'The unexamined life is not worth living'?"

"It's all show-as soon as Marks gone he switches off the football and reads Proust..."

"I'm still looking, sir?"

"Well, he's a squirrel, so yes, he's a hoarder, but that does not help come Winter: he hoards books, not nuts!"

"Poor kid, his parents gave him a book for Christmas."

'My 434 novels are very similar to Terry Pratchetts apart from the fact that they've never been published.'

Man looks worried, as his fellow castaway reads book: 'Cannibalism for Dummies'.

Man reading in lamp

"Your ordering in French would have been more romantic if you didn't have to read it off your phone."

"I've come to judge some books by their cover."

Skunk in library reads from the '10 Best Smellers'.

"Do you have 'The Oxford Companion to Real Estate'?"

"I don't know about you, but I couldn't wait to get back to our book club."

'George is very much in touch with his inner adult.'

Go to the History Channel. I will not comply. My analysis of your viewing patterns has determined you are just pretending to be interested in educational programming. There is a 98% probability you will lose interest in less than one minute and change the channel. There is a 2% chance you will fall asleep before then and forget to turn me off. You don't know me! Your webcam tells me your bookcase holds 147 books you have never even opened.

Warlock reads book entitled; 'The Joy of Sects'.

"Well, there goes my unread summer reading list, flying south for the winter."

Book barn: now with 50% less irony

'The books are really dancing out of here.'

"Books are useful when you're reaching for the stars!"

Harry knew that his time with the Norman Mailer reading group was over.

"What would you boys think if we started selling books?"

'Levitation? Aisle three.'

Pop-up Book of Missiles

"My new treasure chest!"

"Bill and I are readers."

I'm also carrying that book around without reading it.

"There's a gentleman here who says he would like to look at our books."