War Story Seeker Mugs

'Literary agency' "About your idea for a book on NATO's role in Kosovo? Russian author got there first"

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

"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."

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

There's a crew here from 60 minutes and they're coming this way.

"I guess I was a good shot, because I took down 50 Nazis...all by myself. That's how I got my silver star. Honestly, I don't consider myself a hero. I consider myself lucky."

Warrior Woman

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

Blue Stockings

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

The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo.

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

What would Charlotte Bronte do, she thought to herself.

Addicted to reading

Downloads.

'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.'

Thank you to those who never came home and to those who never left their side.

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

Homage to Hans Christian Andersen

Freedom of the press

"Well, Mr. Goddam Fancy-Pants Small-Town-Expose hot shot! What makes you think we don't all have lusty, kiss-and-tell memoirs boiling away inside us?"

"I had a great weekend... My Grandpa talked about the war again and my Dad about his most daring facebook comments!"

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.

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

"It's a great story, funny and entertaining - and better still it's not won a single prize for literature."

'Ignore them, Charlie. They're nothing but philistines. I liked your poetry, truly I did!'

Trueman Dewayne Lafayette: collector of the imaginary,

'I suppose that's where things get ironed out.'

Technology and literature

Diet Books: Fiction/Non-Fiction