Wartime Literature Lover Gifts

Wilfred Owen

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

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

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

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

Blue Stockings - Woman revealing herself as author

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

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

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

The Ray Bradbury classic, 'The Car Alarm.'

"You're going to hate yourself."

"Meet The Author"

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

Tut and Carmen.

First Novels.

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

"So, what brings you in today, Mr. Brooks? High anxiety again?"

Accelerated reading. Slowpoke reading,

The DaVinci Code

Thomas Mann.

'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.

The Dorrie Decimal System

Television Readers.

"Now I really hate poetry."

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

Shakespeare does stand-up comedy in the round.

Voltaire

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

Blue Stockings

Jean-Paul Sartre

'He likes to power nap.'

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